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ye DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Wednesday, January 4, 1956 KEEP IN TRIM . Gay Red Dress in Small Size Induces Woman to Slim Down By IDA JEAN KAIN Let me tell you--it really does Shortly before Christmas, the|work. only thing likely td entice dieters, "Last December, I bought my- to read on would be the promise self a real bright red jersey dress that they can soon wear a smaller| --one of those pleated jobs with size. So here we go with the story a wide belt. I didn't try it on be- of the lipstick red dress. |cause 1 was rushed for time . . "In a recent column,' you sug- and I bought it because I liked gested that a smaller dress size be it. It was size 24%. used as an incentive to reduce. "Well, to make a long story MARY HAWORTH MAIL Overweight High School Girl Worried At Losing Popularity MARY HAWORTH'S MAIL my husband . . . it was a Christ-) mas party with the top brass of the : company. I used to wear a lot of red and pink, as I always looked better in bfight colors than I did in navy blue and black. So natur- ally I thought I'd wear my lip- stick red dress. | "I put it on--and to my horror, | 1 looked immense. Even the belt | didn't close. I always took a 24% | | dress. I wasn't only disappointed, | |T was actually ashamed of my- | self. My husband told me to get | my money back on the. dress. and | I told him I would return it to the store. WEARS IT NOW "But what I did was to hang it in the back of my closet. And I! started to diet, just so I could wear that red dress. .In 4 months I lost 25 pounds! And I wear that dress every place I go. | *So when I read what you said | about buying a smaller size dress |as an incentive, I just had to tell {you. It sure worked for me! "Since then I have started a TOPS club (Take Off Pounds Sen- sibly). Mrs. Manz who started the he club in Milwaukee in 1948 was - here in town recently. She had the [TOPS Queen with her Lillian Pedtke--who won -the trophy last year for taking off 97 pounds. It really was an inspiration to us. | And many thanks, too, for all your | help." | Congratulations to a wise re- | ducer! A strong incentive always helps . . whether it be a red dress, anticipating' a trip back home, or a spring wedding where time, slim down if you can. since you will want to losk your best Dear Mary Haworth: It may|nothing is better for health and! Charge your incentive with inter- sound silly for a "well adjusted" {morale than to be lithe and wil- lowy, and comfortably in control, and you can't help but come out 16-year-old girl to find herself frus- trated, but such is my case. When | |of appetite. M.H. est, excitement and enthusiasm victorious. short, Thadto goto ab t with [} 1 first came to my present high school, I was doing superigr clas- work and received several posit- ions--with the student council and on various committees. I was fairly popular and several boys, whom I didn't care for, tried to date me: but I refused. Today, as a junior, I am find- ing the going rough. My marks are barely average and, although I have good friends, I am never included in their social plans. | Worst of all, I have never had a| date. 1 could afford to lose a good 20 pounds, but would this help my problem? Am I correct in think- ing that my lack of social life ties in with my poor scholarship? 1 would appreciate any advice you can give me. J.K. NOT SELF-DETERMINED Dear J. K.: You speak your- self as a well adjusted girl--and I wonder what you mean by that?! What theories of behavior do you have, that cause you to think you are well adjusted? What persons § or pressures in your experience have propelled you along lines of endeavor that, suddenly, aren't re- darding? That are leading to dis- couragement and frustration? It occurs to me that your social «_ and scholastic slump, simultan-| \eously linked to a problem of over-| = eating, probably reflects a distur- Be bed home life. You are anxious, 5 preocvupied, joyless--due to baf-| § fled concern about family difficul-| ¥ ties, to which you see no solution | && perhaps. | Ordinarily the adolescent young- ster isn't the author of his (or her) success or failure, socially, in tractiveness and competence in| 3 dealing with friends, jand roman-| ces, and school work, and the roughand-tumble of group compet- ition, stem from a satisfactory home life. And the advantageous] home, for youth, requires Kindly| responsible parents who are on! good terms with. their social en vionment. CALL FOR HELP | Able parents set the pace in a congenial family interchange, thus giving the children a sense of se curity, sanctuary and friendly backing. 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