The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1870-09-17

How Lean Folks May Grow Fat.

We published a week or two
since card for those persons VIII 0
sought reductive boarding house
system by which their superfluous
avoidupoise might be dispensed
with. 1t seems that DR.. Dio Lew
is has been thinking in the inter
est of an opposite class-those
who are thin to unloveliness. He
certainly has the larger enterprise
For one fat person there are a
dozen, or score, Of lean ones.
They are dried up, and in danger
of blowing away. How their
bones rattle in the wind! There
are cavernous hollows in their
temples and cheeks while their
eyes look like great black China
saucers. 1t seems that they have
been drinking vinegar all their
lives; or have the consumption; or
have allowded life to ooze out of
them in some unlawful way. We
always feel for them. So does DIR.
Dio Lewis. We are always afraid
that in the crowd .hey will always
get jostled against us, and their
sharp angles--bones which no
cushion of flesh covers--wouId
do us harm. In fact we set them
down as dangerous class in the
community. Fat people are heavy
and dozy, and a burden to them
selves. Our reductive boarding
house contemplates them as un-
fortunates; and is itself a pure
philanthropy. But lean people
are really dangerous-and in this
age Ct phosphates are often carried
off in the night and burned for
dry bones. No doubt large per
centaoe of murders could be traced
to some sort of leanness or other.
Now D.. Lewis comes sensible
to the rescue. He sends these
skeletons TO bed betimes. They
have ratified in between the sheets
ordinarily at IL or half-past IL.
The Doctor tells them that will
will never do They must bid the
busy. tea stepped, gossipy world
farewell bv half-past 8 or 8 c, clock.
This tagging out of the flesh re
suits in part from late hours
Susie used to be buXom maid.
Now she has tight skin across
her piRched nose and anxious
cheeks. Susie has been 20 more
evening dress parades for young
children than is consistent with
health and flesh. SO, though
Susie is scarcely in her teens, she
bids fair to be one of these old
skeletons that rattle in the wind
before she is twentytwo. All the
healthy, happy juices of life are
going in this folly, and she will be
old and dry, and fritted away and
good for nothing very young
And the case is the same with
Mary, and Alice, ami Sarah Jane
Their fathers and mothers ought
to put them to bed early for the
next ten years. instead of hiring
hickney coaches, in ordering Tom
to take them to evening dissipa-
tions at Bigbug's, Or at Madam
SLowoff's.
The first condition to plumpness
is early to bed. DR. Lewis says
the second is water. Here we
think he may be right, but do not
know. We are sure be is right
about early retiring. He says
hen you retire drink water; drink
all YOU can-one tumbler, two tum
blers, and more if you can. Then
take by day abundance of fresh
air. Ride--ride till you are hun
cry Eat-eat oat meal porridge,
cracked wheat, Graham mush,
sweet apples baked, and have no
scruples about sugar and cream.
Take nap in the daytime. Go
and see the jolliest persons you
know. Avoid t. e solemn visaged.
Shun the lugubrious. Cultivate
the cheerful--the men and women
who laugh, Laugh yourself
Laugh and grow fat. Keep your
skin clean. Sleep in a room
where the sun shines. Have
everything bright and CHEEKY
about you. Sleep ten hours if you
can, 'sAnd then says the Doc
tor. SIN six months you will be as
plump as ever your lover could
wish"
We think well of DR.. Lewis
advice. And we like his medi
cine. Plenty OF sleep, air, sun
shine and cheerfulness. Who
would Mt laugh and grow fat?
We recommend to all lean people
and to those silly parents who are
making their children miserably
lean--his sensible words i From
the Germantown Phila.) Chroni-
Gle.