The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-10 00:00:00

A CURE FOR CORPULENCE.

A philanthropist has la-tely laid his story before
the public, and although the record may provokeal
tis
is
passing smile, yet no one who reads it can doubt
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and
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s e to-
thin himself, and who has at last succeedeyd. He
o
wishes the world to know how he vanquished his
terrible enemy, and how at last the demon of corpu-
lence flee from him. This is really a great kindness,
and a man who, without fear of ridicule and simply
from benevolent motives, comes forward to reveal
an experience of this kind is doing a ser-
vice which his fellow creatures ought to recognise.
Mr. Banting, the gentleman who has had the cou-
rage and good feeling to write and publish this nen
rative, not long ago measured five feet five inches,
and weighed about 14 stone and a quarter. He
owns that he had a great deal to bear from unfor-
tunate make. In the first place, the little boys in
the street laughed at him ; in the next place, he
could not tie his own shoes; and lastly, he had, it
appears, to come downstairs backwards. But he was
a man who struggled gallantly, and whatever
he was recommended to do he honestly tried to
carry out, He drank mineral waters, and consulted
physicians, and took sweet counsel with innunier
ble friends, but all was in vain. He lived ui,:-
exertio
sixpence a day, and earned it, so that the fay 'on
" of Abernethy failed in his c ourite
recipe lie went
ihnattohsa.ll Forts
i shampooingtoofokvapnoourlesbsatthisiar:lt.
ninety Turkish
bathe, but nothing did him an
still as fat as ever. A Bind friend
good; he was
friend recom-
mended increased bodily
likely to be effectual
than rowing. So this stout
warrior with fat got
daily into a good, safe, he
couple of hours. But he Was only pouring water
heavy boat, and rowed a
into the bucket of the ro
in one way he lost in snaides. What he gained
increased, but t; ea another. His muscular vigour
gious appetite, Which he felt compeled to indulge,
and coosequentl 1 -
been. At 1 he got even fatter than he had
who toldhimeet he
hit upon the right adviser,
what to do, and whose advice
has been so auccassful that Mr. Beating can
now walk downstairs forwards, put his old
cloth
;
-es quite over the suit that now fits him,
and, far
from being made the victim of' unkind
or ill.
Judged chaff, is universally congratulated on
his pleasant and becoming appearance. The machi-
nery by which this change was effected was of a
very simple kind. He was simply told to leave off
eating anything but meat. It appears that none
the
of
his numerous friendly advisers, and none of
physicians he consulted, penetrated so far into the
secresy of his domestic habits as to have discovered
that twice a day be used formerly to
indulge in
bowls of bread and milk. Tae Solomon who saved
him cut off this great feeder of fat, and since then
Mr. Banting has been a thinner and a happier.
man.—Saturday Review.
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BO PwLAmIIIPNGayWnIeT,HthFe ICRiEty.
—An inquiry
wastholomew's Hospital, on Tuesday, re-
coroner, at St. Bar
the death of
re-
specting James Drummond, aged five years,
evidence that the deceased, who was
OfrimAtho
8I
pt
e appeared DEATH
on Monday left for a few minutes alone in. Smithfield, was
by his mother. In her absence be began to light
ThielHdßbOvUAGlar.
the cni:d of a naechanic, residing at 1, Greenhill place,
a room
sn
fore his screams brought assistance he was
'cks at the fire and play with them. He was soon in.
flames, and be
dreadfully burnt. He was forthwith conveyed to the has•
pital, but his injuries were so severs that all remedies proved
unavailing, and after lingering in great agony ho expired
n Monday night. Verdict—Accidental death.
THE LION VC nosE CLAW CAREICUT, AND WHO
ROARS LIKE A SUCKING DOVE !
A. brochure by
M. Proudhon has just appeared, entitled, " Si les Traites de
1815 ont Cease d'Exister r It is the development of a new
Utopia of the former enemy to property. The following_ is
the last sentence iu the pamphlet, and will show that
.?u.•
Proudhon is no longer a very dangerous dem
"That idea exists, already it circulates,
t
task of a simple writer to
Prove himself the
rrnstances, e
be
fore-
told it. It mqst come out by the force of circ
baptism from
proclaimed by every mouth, and receive the r
of
his
r, ign
on
he priueip4l, who first founded the
bone
and uni.
lthe triumph of ideas, the renouncing of victories,
versa' disarmament." its:a notg the
u A
MONSIEUR PLE lays claim
phc,;tpuing
i 4
to havin7covaed the complete en
of togr
Colours, beforebutht the Academy
thi