Titles read: “NOW Something else specially taken for the Ladies - Feminine Pictorialities No. 17 - Taking the “add“ from Adipose.“ Location of events unknown - could be Pathe Studio. Several shots show women exercising to become slimmer - a line of chorus girls do a high-kicking routine on a beach wall, girls use rowing and running machines, help each other do extreme stretches and use slimming machines that roll away the fat. A woman lies on a bench, covered with a towel, while a beauty therapist (looking like a nurse) pummels and massages her back. The woman gets up and walks over to a bath. She places a wooden panel in the bath that creates tiny bubbles by way of an electric air compressor. The bubbles penetrate the skin and give internal massage to the body. A tube of gunk is emptied into the bath. This creates foam that keeps the heat below the surface of the water. The beauty therapist puts some of the foam into a towel, scrunches it up then opens the towel to show us it has disappeared,
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