IIORSE-BACK RIDING. 8i 



upon the proper performance of which so much 

 depends in this affection, are seriously impaired. 



In order to favor the oxidation, and thus remove 

 from the system the materials which by successive 

 changes are converted into fat, it is requisite that the 

 rate both of the respiration and of the circulation be 

 increased, that the function of innervation be regu- 

 lated, that the absorption of easily assimilated sub- 

 stances be favored, that certain secretions be increased 

 in quantity, and that greater exchanges of material 

 take place in the body. 



How can such indications be better fulfilled than 

 by proper exercise, added to a mode of living based 

 upon true hygienic principles ? 



We must not, however, confound obesity with a 

 prcjngd fatal. Young ladies whose embonpoint, in 

 their opinion, is too marked, are dissatisfied with 

 that abundance of tissue, and wrongly regarding lean- 

 ness as beauty, strive by every means in their power 

 to destroy their health in order that the proper degree 

 of lathiness may be reached. 



When in a young girl this tendency to the de- 

 velopment of an excessive amount of fat discloses 

 itself, the proper remedy is horse-back exercise and 

 moderation in diet. This is the true specific against 

 excessive embonpoint — not acidulated drink or sub- 

 stances which, destroying the health, remove not only 

 the fat, but at the same time all pretensions even of 

 beauty. 



