, 1863-07-28
TALKS ABOUT HEALTH,
j Word to my Fat Friends.


Perhaps you fancy your shape 70 do look
comfortable and jolly. But, as Psychologist,
must find fault with your obesity, like ema.
ciation, 10 sort Of di:ease-unfayorable to
health aud long life,
This warm weather makes you pant and
pers pire.
beech, the otler day. 1t Was warm after
noon. lie was very uncomfortable. We
stopped to chat a moment when ho explain
"I would give ten thousand dollars to be
reduced to one hundred aud fifty pounds.
Pant, wheeze, aid sweat; pant whecze, and
sweat, e1ery time stlF;" looking earnestly
do for me; what can take? Ny faulty doc.
t. r tells me be can give me something 1llut
yin rhittle n me down; do sou think it can be
aOl,, ycs," I replied, "nothins is easier;
but ii l. quite unn ceetary to take uny lncdi.
cine. Suppose, slf, You have very IL! horse,
much n the condition Of yourself, and sotne
doctor were to propose to reduce his weight
with medicine, what would you eay:'
III should tell him THAI eonld reduce his
weigh11t by reducing The amount of Ills
"Just go; and you would be quite right.
Allow NE to commend the same practice to
.ourecH. Reduce the quantity Of your food
1ue.quarter, a1d venture to tay that in a
month you will weigh Fl ON five to ten pounds
k6s i1Nu UUM- al Ll1C ElU u Liz uE3I ulu1Lu
reduce the amount Of yonr food another quar-.
ter. Within three or six months you will find
yourself lighter By twenty to fifty pounds.
Your digestion will be much healthier, your
rarlce greatly increased"
as some thin men whom know.''
'.1lls is not improbable, and presume
their excessive eating keeps them thin, as
With your tendency, excessive eating pro-
duces fat 1fshey were to reduce the guam
tity Of ,heir food, they. would, like yourself,
tend toward the normal standard would
gain in weight while you would lose"
He promised to try 1t, and started on.
In horse car the other day, I met six cor
putent. uncomfortable men, all quite sure to
die pre1taturc]y. Every one Of them might,
in Fix or twelve months, he reduced to the
and activity to which le Is now a stranger. Il
any l.hI sfologica1 statement more self evident
than that every fat person cats more than he
neete?
But" cxclaims some fat young woman,
who would "gire the world'' to be in good
shape, II cannot 20 hungry and faint for
r,cr-" q
This remark shows you have never tried
what have suggested. 1t Is en1T the great
enter who is troubled with hunger and " gone
ness." Hyou would reduce the quantity Of
your food, even one.half at once, after three
| days you will not suffer from faintnes5 or hun.
ger. The man who eats temperately Of un-
stimulating fuod, rarely knows the sensation
ef bu, ger.
In the light of these uudeniable statements.
how silly the practice, common among girls.
Of Swallowing ucids, and other killing Wings;
snd among men, sleeping in tobacco, to re-
duce the flesh. hare personally known
scores Of young women whose health has been
ruined by drinking vinegar, or eating chalk
ard other indtgestlblc things, all to takes Away
their fat.
And have known s.ill greater number to
ruin themselves with corsets, In the hope Of
keeping themselves comfy and in shape.
have met hundreds Of fat men who were
| bcemea1ed and saturated with tobacco juice
| objects Of disgust to Ill beholdcrs. terror to
| decent housekeepers, peregrinatiug stencil
| pofe, ard al to keep their flesh down.
My poor, dear, fat simpletone, allow me to
prescribe for you.
Rise early !; exercise much, particularly In
the "pen mir; bathe frequently, rubbing the
skin very hard but most important ot all,
eat plain, coarte food, and reduce the QuantI-
t. until you find yourself growing thinner :wo
OF TIRE pounds per week. Your sluggish
ucss, shortbFeath, and other discomforis will
eoon leave you, and you will become bright,
clcA1 headed, and hapIY.