The Goodhue volunteer., 1863-09-02
A Word to my Fat Friends.
BY do LEWIS, If. d,

I IIerhaps you fancy your shape. You dc
look comfortable and jolly. But, as a ply
siolog'st, l must find fault with you; obse
'ty, like cmaciation, is sort Of disease
unfavorable to health and long life. ...
s@~ This warm weather makes you pant and
sperspire. >.,j 'z.5s '.ss' '''>.ss'-z.'7 5
l met one ofyour number down on the
beach the other day. A warm afternoon
lie was very uncomfortable. We stoppsd
70 chat moment, when he expclamied =,
4 would give ten thousand dollars to be
reduced to one hundred and fifty pounds
= pant, Wheezs and sweat .everyt ime ] STIR
Lacking earnestly into my face he said
Doctor, what can you do for me what can
take :? My family doctor tells me he can
give something that will :whitlle me
down; do you thing it can be done p
'Oh, yes,' replied, nothing is easier
but it is quite unnecessary to take any med
lclne. suppose. sir. you have very fat
horse, much in the condition Of yourself,
and some doctor were to promise to reduce
his weight with medicine, what would you
say p
1 should reduce his weight by reducing
the amount Of his food.'
Just so; and you would be quite right.
Allow me to commend the same practice to
yourself Reduce the quantity of your food
one quarter, and / venture to say that in a
month you will weigh from five to ten
pounds less than now. At the end of the
first month reducs the amount ofyour food
another quarter. Within three to six
months you will find yourself lighter by
twenty to fifty pounds. Your digestion
will be much healthier, your respiration
freer, and your activity and endurance
greatly increased
But says he, L don't eat hdf as much
as some thin men whom know
This is not improbable, and I presume
with your tendency, excessive eating pro
duces fat. If they were to reduce the guam
tity of their focd, thoy would, like yourself,
tend toward the normal standard-,hey
would gain in weight while you would losc.'
lie promised to try it and started on.
In hor car the other day, | met six
corpu'ent, uncomfortable men,. all quite sure
to die prematurely. Every one Of them
might, III six or twelve months, be reduced
10 the normal standard, and enjoy degree
Of health and activity to which he i2 now
stranger. Is any physiological statement
nore self. evident than that every fat person
'ats more than he needs p
But excIaims some fat young woman,
Who would give the world to be in good
shape. 4 cannot 60 hungry and faint forever, >,
This remark SHOWS that you have never
ried what have suggested. tits only the
later who is troubled with hunger and
goneness.' II you would reduce the quan,
.ily ofyour food, even one half at once, after
hree days you would not suffer from faint
acss or hunger. The man who eats TEN.
oeraiely OF unstimulating food rarely knows
he sensation OF hunger. H.. -.: ST.. ..- 80
In the light OF these undeniable state
ucnts, how silly the pratice common among
girls Of swallowing acids, and other killing
things and among men sleeping in tobacco, :,
to reduce the flesh. have personally
known scores Of young women whose health
has been ruined by drinking vinegar, or eat
Ing chalk and other indiges,ibls things, all to
take away their fat. a&s IT I'll ao1'& h9#.a,
And l have known still greater number
to ruin the smsel,es with corsets, in the hope
ofkeeping themselves comely and in shape:
have met hundreds Of fat men who were
besmeared and saturated with tobacc, juice
objects Of disgust to all beholiars, ter
ror to decent housekeepers, peregrinating
stencil pots, and all to keep the flesh down.
+ Ny poor, dear, fat simpIs.ons, sllow me
to prescribe for you .as5a& 9ss@ss@ss 3=s.7ss .
Rise early, exercise much, particularly in
the open Air, baths frequently, rubbing the
skin very hard /; but most important OF all,
eat plain, coarse food and reduce the quantity
till you find yourself growing thinner two
or three pounds week. Your slusgishness,
short breath, aud other discomforts will soon
leave you. and ron will become bright, clea.
headed, and happy. -
GoD Is FOR The USIoS,-It was happy
and amusing conceit of . little four or fiys
rear old boy, who saw rainbow few dayl
since, for the first time in his life. His q.
E.hsr took him out doors and showed him
2 tine one which spanned the sky, and tbe
first exclamation OF the child xas the inoui
~, Halo who pm, that up iberer Th.
father answered that God put il thsse.-
Alter looking intent'y and delightsdly
ex minutes, hs exclaimed again, Oh Oh
red, white, and blue. God = for the Unio,
ain't be 2 Tat little boys head .nd i,sar
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