This one helps to slim the hips and thighs. Lie on the floor and grasp both hips with your hands, then raise your legs and body toward the ceiling of the room. Repeat this fifty times.

You are stout, and it troubles you, and you would like to reduce those extra masses on your body.

If you are wise in choosing your food, Madam, your weight will not increase; and likewise if you practice your exercises with precision and regularity. If they bore you, listen to music while you do the exercise, and remember to be exact in your timing, for these few minutes will repay you richly in the future, when you reach the middle of your life. Remember that exercises are no substitute for diet; but they may help toward a slim figure and toward removing extra fat here and there. The best proof of that is this exercise: you roll across the floor of the room from one side to the other, your legs pressed together and your forearms crossed over your chest. It is easy — and rest assured that it will not be long before you are able to wear the "skirt" you had given up!...

Here are various exercise positions, each of which helps to slim one section of your body.

This one concerns your chest. Stand with your feet together and your shoulders resting against the wall. Take a deep breath. Raise your arms in front of you to shoulder level, then upward until they touch the wall; lower them slowly and breathe out. Repeat the exercise twelve times.