The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-07-27
Lean or Fat to Order.

lChlcago Times
AS rule people are no better satisfied
with the condition of their bodies as re-
CARDS plumpness than tn y are with
their share of worldly wealth, or their
positions in society. The scrawny woman
longs to be plump, while the woman
with a rotund form wishes to be spare.
The two women, cast in different molds,
20 through life envying each others
good fortune in the matter of proper
ton. Stock-raisers long ago found out
that by judicious use of different kinds
of food they could render the animals
they kept tat or lean at pleasure. Of
late tables have been prepared in Europe
and this country showing how much
food of certain kind will be required
to make lean hog or bullock of given
size fat enough for the market. In ORR
entail countries, where girls are disposed
of to rich customers, it has long been the
custom to bring them to certain de-
gree of plumpness by the employment
Of fat-forming food
Up to this time, in this country, sci
ence and skill have not been often
called into requisition for the purpose
of creating or disposing of hui
man fat. Various mechanical ap-
planes have been employed for enlarg-
ing the size and changing the contour
of the bust, and for diminishing the cir
conference of the waist, but feeding for
the purpose of developing the form has
been limited to the inferior animals and
the various kinds of poultry. 1t is true,
nevertheless, that brides are disposed of
in this country in much the same way
as in Turkey, Egypt, and the Barbary
States. They are marketable only as
their condition of form and features
pleases the customers in the market. If
the market calls for plump girls, lean
ones are not disposed of on anything like
advantageous terms. Yet managing
mammas and the managers of fashiona-
BILE female seminaries seem to entirely
ignore this fact. The former send their
daughters to the latter to learn various
complishments by means of which
they may the better capture husbands,
but all neglect to take any pains in the
development of the degree of plump
ness which the market requires. In this
matter they could gain wisdom by en-
ploying Turkish instead of French in
structors. The diet at female semi
naries is in no wise conducive to the
production of fat. 1t consists, for the
most part, of weak tea, skinned milk,
lean beef, dried apples, allspice, and
pickles. Btween meals the girls eat
slate-pencils and pickles, and drink weak
lemonade.
Recently some attention has been
ri Won fO dispooipn of crnarA,,ouo 20 -
very corpulent persons, and to the pro-
duction of the requisite amount in lean
ones, by means of substances taken int
the stomach. A preparation "war-
ranted " to reduce the weight of a per-
son from three to five pounds week, &C
cording to the amount taken, is adj
vertised. By the judicious use of this a
woman weighing three hundred and
seventy pounds, and requiring two
ordinary tape-lines to measure her waist,
can, in the course of three months, make
herself sufficiently scrawny to enter the
most intellectual society in Boston. AL
most simultaneously with the advent of
this preparation appeared book direct
ing people how to be plump. Itgives full
direc ions for attaining any given degree
of plumpness. By following the instruc-
tions Civ. n a lean female can prepare
herself for fat woman" in time for
the coming fairs Women thus have the
means at their disposal for becoming as
fat or as lean as they desire. BY theuse
of hair-dyes, cosmetics, and these later in
ventions, woman may transform her
self SO as to please any fancy. If she is
unsuccessful as spare brunette, she can.
in the course of a few weeks, appear as a
fair and fat blonde. Hereafter there
will be no occasion for old maids, since a
girl may assume as many forms and ap-
pearances as there are manageable men
in the neighborhood.