Screenland (May–Oct 1927)

SCREENLAND 89 The Crimes Women Commit Against Themselves! Hy oAnnette Ke Hermann Not long ago a woman came to me for advice. She had been a robust young lady full of strength and vitality, cheerful, charming and tireless. Her bank of health seemed to be so full that she little dreamed it could ever be exhausted. One morning she woke up tired. Something seemed to have left her. Day after day she grew weaker, took less interest in her surroundings and then withered like a faded flower. She began to take pills and powders. She began to use creams and lotions, skin tonics and rouges. But she never could find her lost health in a bottle, and she never could get back her natural strength out of a box. She had to lean on tonics and treatments to keep going. Artificial stimulation whipped her into some semblance of activity. Pepsin digested her food; laxatives took the place of Nature. But after a while she realized the hopelessness and the foolishness of attempting to gain real health, real vitality and rich red blood out of a store. So she came to me for advice. I told her not to worry, that if she followed my instructions she would soon be herself again. Today she gets more out of life than she ever did before. She builds strength into her system, so that, drawing upon it, she does not bankrupt her body. The crime most women commit against themselves is to let themselves go. They are careless until it is too late. It does not require intelligence or common sense to be careful after it is useless to be careful. It does require intelligence and common sense to catch yourself in time. If you suffer from headaches, are weak, run-down, anemic, tired and worn out, if your nerves are ragged, your digestion weak, if you are gaining weight too rapidly or losing it beyond reason, if you shuffle and slouch along instead of having the springy step of youth, you are dangerously near the breaking point. You are committing a crime against yourself for which you will pay the penalty. If your complexion is pimply, blotchy, sallow, if your eyes are baggy, your hair straggly, you are committing the crime of losing your own birthright, beauty and charm. Few women understand how to avoid this crime. That is why I have made it my life work to teach them. I learned how in the hard school of experience, for I myself was not always strong, athletic and free from aches and pains, and my figure, which has been called the most perfect in the world was a development, not a birthright. No, — asachildIwaspuny,weak,bowlegged, almost a cripple. 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