Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1853-07-14
Fat Women.

american women are proverbially lean
lNegyFe IS The word, and not only So bur uride
themselves upon their sylph Ike proportions.-
Public taste needs much eorrte,;d, =, ia
point, for we must confess 10 him, f,r -
women An English woman grows stout. ROSY
and attractive, the very time Of life when most
ol our women are entirely Passe. Those Of The
south OF Europe have a generous amplitude.
which we at once associate with health yitaIi,v
and breadth Of character. Madame De StaeI's
Cornna IS attractive greatly from that source.
being size that reminds one Of the iovous.
ness Of the antique, much as we NAV su1pose
! a Niobe, Heeuba a Cornelia or a PoYtia 10
have been. We instineliyey imagine Cleopa.
ira and HelOise to have been large women. q
great soul must need fitting lodgement, and
we shall rejoice to see onr sex riyalng the fair
danes OF antiquity not only in the fulness Of
aesthetic life, but in the majesty Of physique.
Our artists are doing something to correct
public taste in these matters, but the whole
tribe OF magazine writers adhere to "slight
forms" ''little Dorcas," pigmy shapes, white
hands, and all the abortions OF imbecile or me-
diocre affections. We find the following in the
Home Journal, and although somewhat broad.
We would rather our fair country women would
err on this side, which has health to support il.
than cling to the present mode Of thinking
Weekly Budget
"a friend of mine has fondness for fat wo.
men. As Iago was nothing if not critical, so
to him woman if not fat. His taste is not
without precedent. The Turks have the same
fancy. With them corporeal obesity with far
thor attraction of red hair, is reckoned the chief
essential of feminine beauty. Indeed, they
are represented to have custom of fattening
their women for marriage; that is to say, for
market, as farmers do their pigs. The more
the merrler, is the husbands motto, as well in
regard to the size as the number of his spouses.
tie holds, in spite Of the proverb that one can
not have too much of a good thing, and choos-
es his accordingly-.his scale of beauty being
hay-scale. Anacreon, too, seems to have
had the same weakness He praises his fa-
Yorlte mistress for being round and full BOSOM
ed, which shows the poet to have been an ad-
mirer of pumpitude, if not pinguitude. But
my friend goes far beyond the Greek or the
Turk-the classic or the barbarian. He has a
sort of pingua- mania; his fancy for fat amounts
to infatuation. He cannot conceive that wo-
man should have beauty without it, any more
than without nose To him it is Quite the
foundation Of the whole matter, as one may
learn from the following anecdote:
A pretty young lady, of trim and rather
delicate figure, having newly come to reside in
the village of ST. A., was the subject of
much admiration among the beaux of the place
One evening while knot Of young fellows
were discussing her charms, one of the compa-
ny turned TO my friend and inquired with much
enthusiasm, wether he didn't think Miss B
very beautiful? Beautiful cried he, with a
magnificent frown, 5eatJM Why sir, she
lacks the very first essental-she is not even
fath"