of! But I do not advise you to follow any diet now, so long as you are nursing, for there is no food for a baby to equal its mother's milk. So forget your stoutness until you have weaned the little one, and then take up a diet prescribed for you by a doctor. Meanwhile I can enlighten you on the subject:
The general rule for reducing stoutness is to avoid eating fatty and starchy foods and to replace them with boiled vegetables and fruit, then with a slice of lean meat free of fat, or one boiled egg a day, and a glass of laban or milk. The foods that cause stoutness are sweets of every kind, rice, bread, food cooked in animal fat and in butter, and jam. In cases of stoutness it is essential to cut down the salt in one's food as far as possible, and to drink less water.
Q — I am a girl in love with a young man whose company I have kept for eight years, and in the past two years it has become plain to me that his family does not want me. I cannot bear to be parted from him, and whenever I have tried, a nervous fit has come over me, my fingers cramping and a violent trembling shaking me. What do you advise me to do?
J. M. — Broummana — Lebanon
A — You have said nothing, my dear questioner, about his own attitude toward you — I mean the young man you love. Is he serious in keeping company with you? Does he speak to you of marriage, or is he merely amusing himself with you until he meets his girl?! It is true that the family's opinion on their
son's marriage carries its weight in our country; still, the young man's own view comes first. If he loves you with a true love, and the grounds of his family's opposition are not fundamental, then hold fast to your attachment to him and be patient until the two of you are able to marry. But if you feel that he is playing you false and using his family's attitude as a pretext for stalling and drawing back, then you must spur your will to stand against your feelings and part from your beloved, whatever it may cost you in pain and torment and in what you call “nervous fits.” Dignity, my dear, is what we want to crown our future married life; there is never any happiness in a marriage founded on humiliation and abasement.
Q — I have an old friend whose jealousy over me wearies me. She wants me for herself alone: I may not go on an outing without her, nor speak to anyone
but her, nor even dress my hair except in the style of her hair — although this friend is older than I and prettier than I, and I have no strength to vex her.
Miss L. Z. — Beirut
A — Your friend's attachment and her conduct toward you are not free of excess, and its cause, most probably, is a certain lack of maturity in her social personality. The removal of such attitudes is not accomplished by talking about them, analyzing them, and magnifying them, as commonly happens; rather they dissolve of their own accord and disappear by
way of widening the circle of your friendship to take in girls of your own age and kind — while preserving your own bond, but without excess. What your friend lacks, as I see it, is the development of her social personality; for though she is older than you and prettier, it appears to me that your personality is stronger than hers, and she feels the need to keep you all to herself. So try to widen the circle of your acquaintance, as I have said, mixing with many and varied company, and you will see how her jealousy cools and disappears, and how she returns to her natural footing in her affection, with you and with others.
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