Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-10-28

rr.-4,,. Eas Nay become Thin and
the Thin Fat'

faf DeoDle-Wadd41ngy WneeAys AAb4-BO
mp stairs sort of people: Down II -
Pennsylvania, in an audience OF the
same size, especially if you are n q
country district, the proportion o. 1As
ones is very large. Let me give yol 49,. q
casa funny case. An 1llllil ~ = -
me With : fat word in her mouth,
ssobesity," and, standing before me- |
sIT1ocfor. lust look at mel Amt I al
sight to behold3 This Is the tormenb OF
NV life. I shouldn't weigh more than |
one hundred and thirty pounds, but
do weigh two hundred and twenty
Now Just think Of my carrying III III
extra ninety pounds Whenever 4 AlSto- w |
What can be done for ne a-l5 y-isb
Tnvself IN Greenland. When Walk
fbe street, my sister says / look just
like a Berkshire pig. When 90 Up
stairs in hurry, just lose my = o5esen 5eS.a.ll
into chair, and gasp it back again
Now what can be done for me, Doc
ssFIas your husband a horse ~ II
already knew he had several-l
'sOh, yes; why, you know he keeps
ssDo they ever get fat2''
ssOh yes: YOU know my husband
keeps fast hores. hear about nothing
else the year round but sz:4O, z:5174
ssthev are out of condition." :" and all Of
the rest Of it you know the phrases
ssEFhen your husbands horses get
too fat, can he reduce them ?"
sfOh, yes; very easily"
CHOW does he do it p
gives them more exercise.
stMadaIn, all can say IS 20 lhou
ss7Vhat starvel Why, I have tried
that for months together. What I
have eaten wouldn't Keep musquito
alive and I have grown fatter and nat
ter all the time."
MADAM. YOU must excuse me, but
what you are saying lacks accuracy
You eat and drink too much, or you
would not be in this condition"
aWell, how little should eat ?"
81 cannot tell you that; but can
say that you should reduce the guam
tiEy which you are now eating, and
you should live with very little
drink. This will help you much.
tfTo be particular, let me say, go on
with lust such food as you like. If you
are fond of meat, all the better; in
crease the proportion of that article a
little. Masticate the food very tho
oughly, so that it viii not need much
drink to swallow it. When you have
a desire to drink, content yourself
with a single mOuthful. In week or
two you viii be surprised to find how
the wish for water has disappeared. II
you can learn to get on with one tum-
blerful of water, or other drink, pei
day, this fat, shazy condition viii al
once disappear.
''But to speak of your food again
reduce the quantity you now eat one
quarter, and after, say two months
reduce another quarter. This reduc
ton will probably be sufficient, if yOJ
rigidly observe what have said abou
drinks.
''If, in addition to this, you exercis,
yourself into a profuse perspiratioI
once or twice day, you Will be aston
ished to find how soon your clothes
viii be growing loose. Why, madam
there is not fat person under fifty
years of age in the country who mighi
not get himself or herself into comfort
able proportions in less than half {
year."
doctor, what do you think of Ban
ting's system ~
~ think just this. IF people have
no control over their appetites thai
system is good thing, although sure
to produce an abnormal condition o.
the tissues. We cannot use meal
above certain percentage in our food
without deranging the general health
a 1eYerlshs hard pulse, and a certain
condition of the stomach and liver
which viii show itself in a darkenine
Of the complexion-these and other
symptoms will show when we eat
more meat than we should that the vi
tai processes are not going on well
and besides, this expedient, which
Banting advises, of living on meat is
entirely unnecessary. It is indefinite
ly better to keep up about the usual
proportions of meat and vegetable
food, and simply reduce the quantity .
"But, Doctor, if 90 into this course
you advise, it seems to me that / shall
hardly be able to keep on my feet
shall be so weak"
Madam, you are entirely Inistak-
en-. Any person when too fat will only
experience a sense of l1ghtness and in
creasing strength, when making a iu-
diciOus reduction in the amount oi
food and drink. He will breathe bet
ter, more quicker, and feel that a great
load is being removed.
"For example, a man weighs, say
two hundred and fifty pounds
and should weigh, to be active anC
healthy, one hundred and seventy-fivC
pounds. This man is carrying abou
an extra seventy-hve pounds, inter
fering with his respiration and activi
ty In other words, cutting short th'
two great conditions of health, viz.
respiration and exercise. Yet tina
man goes on putting and blowing unit
he dies, and dies prematurely, too, TO
excessive fat is inimical to longevity
But for one fat person there are, es
pecially in New England, dozen leal
ones.
Here comes a young woman of TWEEN
thirty-hve, and the prematurely OLD
look comes from this clinging of tn,
skin to the bones. See how hollow
her temples are. Casting her eye
ABOUT the office TO see that nobody Ov
erhears, she says:
doctor, what can be done for thes
dry bonesf Why, I can hardly make
shadows and while I ought to b
plump at twenty (which she desire
me to understand is her age) here I an
looking like an old grandmother. Cal
anything be done for these crow's-fee
about my eyes, and these scraWny col
lar-bones 2N
'EWell, this is curious; a woman il
just the opposite condition has thi
moment left here. She is carryin
ninety pounds too much flesh. Tha
makes her miserable. I have pre-
scr1bed for her, and If she follows tn
prescription, in six months she vii
lose her extra pounds. If you hav
no disease, but simply a lack of fat,
am sure shall be able to prescribe 70
you, so that the desired twenty-fiV
pounds or more viii come in about tn
same length of time"
"I am perfectly well, and I an
TONI
Let me question you little. VIVA
blLne 90 you go to bed ?''
..S55 enerally about IL, or 111%.',
going .is II n6edt bed q 5e e changed Instead Q
%
really in earnest about getting a T,lnron
youthful appearance, you must 90 &
bed at 81 or o'clock. With a 7rasb
plump. youthful personnel, a sinpI,
hour in any. company will CRAFTY yoT
and your friends more than a doze1
nights with this old tagged look. s,
go to bed at 81 or o'clock, and dom
be in q hurry about getting up in tn
morning. On going to bed and OF
getting up in the morning, drink Al
much cold water as you can swallow
Soon you will learn to drink two tum
pliers, and some persons may learn tx
drink still more. Drink all that youl
stomach viii bear. Spend a good deal
OF time IN the open air, without hard
exercise but exposed to the sun and
ana fFesh air, IF practicable, ride in q
eaEElage some hours every day. Re-
main out enough to give YOU q GOOD
appetite, but don't work hard enough
te produce excessive perspiration.-
Eat good deal of oat-meaI porridpe