The Republican journal., 1870-01-27
THE FAT MEN IN COUNCIL.

And why shouldn't they be? We have
had gatherings of all kinds-pcace and wal
conventions, woman's rights conventions
spiritual, temporal and eternal conventions,
olliceholders, musical, farmers and editors,
in short gatherings of all and every kind
and now why is it not fitting and proper
that fat folks should get together, Why not
compete and vie with each other in stature
and weight-why not measure arms, necks,
chests, legs, and every thing that is theirs ?
Can anybody bring 4 valid ob.ection9 We
think not.
| We do not hesitate to say that fairness is q
matter for Just pride. 1t is the insignia OF
virtue, peace, contentment. Your fat man is
good tempered therefore he is not moved
to peeyishness and wearing away of the flesh
He is not ambitious, and does not fret him.
self to leanness in climbing the ladder OF
fame. He is not ayaricious, and does not lie
awake nights, coyeting his neighbors goods
g his man servant or his maid servant his
horse or his ass, or anything that is his. =" Hc
don't fall into evil ways and bad company
thus bringing himself to shame, and wasting
his flesh by sitting up O nights. His fat
ness is Synonymous Of virtue, and a visible
certificate that he does not give way to wicked
and consuming passions Tie loves his wife
is kind to her, buys her new dresses, furs in
their season, and the marvellous new bon
nets of the size ola maple leaf, at Sl5 apiece,
when she wants them-which is pretty often.
He is indulgent to his children, lets them play
hide and seek ana raise the deuce generally
while he sleeps on the lounge.
Beng thus calm, unimpassioncd and vr-
tuous, the tat man is never q criminal. Whc
ever saw q fat thief, or highway robbcr, OIL
pirate, or murderer2 When was ever fat
man hung We don't believe there is al in
mate of our State Prison who weighs over
Us pounds avoirdupois. If there is, he is
imprisoned wrongfully, and ought to be par
doncd. Contrary TO the popular belief we
think that religious tervor is not promoted by
fasting-that man is most apt to be thank
full with q full stomach. Thompson hit the
mark when he described the parson as
"A little round fat oily man of God"
Shaksperc understood the matter when he
made Caesar discriminate between peaceful
and dangerous men
| Let me have men about me that are fat;
| Slcek-headed men, and such Is sleep o nights:
| You'd Casslus has 4 lean and hungry look;
| Such men are dangerous.
And 50 the fit men assembled at Lewiston
on Friday. There We're four hundred OF
thcm-or some fifty tons Of humanity. And
the heaviest man was q woman-Miss Emma
Hardy, the Maine giantess, who weighs 376,
and i six feet eight inches tall When the
Convention organized, the President weighed
2S7 ana the Vice President q shade less
The heaviest man present was A. g. Haven,
Of Chelsea, Mass, who weighs 354 pounds,
and is only 10 years Of age. The next was
Mr.. Bracket, of Hermon, 347 pounds. Is
there any wonder that crowds came to see
the sight?
After Joking, and laughing, and pcrspir-
ing, the fat men adjourned to dinner nj the
De Witt House, which excellent hotel had its
resources taxed TO the utmost to feed the
multtude-but triumphca, and had some
thing over. II was an occasion long to be
remembered. Now will the lean men pro
sumo to have q gathering?