The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-10-20
A Big Shrinkaye.

/ DIX SuIIuhnsts
Eating is largely matter of habit
None of US need more than half the foo,
we eat" The speaker was a gentleman
from Salt Lake City. now visiting pro
fessional friends in Boston. The inter
viewer. Just from the table, where he hat
dined too heartily, perhaps felt the fore,
of the remark more at just that tim,
than he would at mostany other. ''No
I've no desire to be interviewed. dom
care to be presented to the public as /,
monstrosity, but have been remarkably
successful in decreasing the amount O
my flesh, which had become q burden t.
me-"
something after the Banting system
or did you take any of the 'anti-fat
remedies so common?'
discounted Banting following much
more rigid course. You see," said thu
gentleman, with satisfactory
chuckle," it came about this way.
am only five feet seven inches high, witt
bones as small as those of woman, and
two years ago I measured fifty-eighl
inches about the waist. twenty-fOul
"Gracious. what collar!" interjected
the interviewer.
.'Well, it wasn't neck exactly. My
head set in chunk of fat on my Shout
ders. That's about all there was to my
neck. One night, after having surveyed
myself in the mirror and thinking what
an ungainly piece of flesh 1 was, I went
to bed and had a dream that l was
sought for by circus man, who had
been successful in exhibiting curiosities
in a side-show. The next day l thought
more about it and determined to get rid
of some of the 27Opounds of flesh 1 had;
just as hard, solid flesh as you ever saw.
Food assimilated with my system nicely,
you see, and ate enough for two men
at meal. began at once. Two meals
day. eight in the morning and four in
the afternoon. What did | eat? Beef
steak principally, six to eight ounces at
meal, with two ounces of bread toasted
hard. Nothing else! Except an occa-
sional change to mutton, but no vegeta-
bles, no pork, no veal"
.'And for drinks?"
"No water, except in sips. Fleshy
persons always are tempted to drink
large quantities of water. Now, let
them sip their water, and it will soon
become insipid (no pun intended) and
will quench their thirst just as well. i
usually drank a cup of tea without milk
or sugar"
Didn't you grow hungry at irst?''
Hungry? Well, had always dined
with Dives, on the best could get, and
looked forward to my dinner as the great
delight of the day. Now l was dining
with Lazarus. Yes. l suffered a good
deal from hunger at the outset-a hack
at the swill-barrel would have been q
luxury. You see, began by trying my
diet at the family table, right at the
midst of temptation, but soon had to
give that up. My wife weighed my
meals every day, and served them to me
in separate room. l ate what was set
before me. and had to be content. Hun
cry? Well, I've seen the time during
my dieting that would have robbed the
support of man with wife and four.
teen children to get square meal"
''What encouragement did you get?"
swell, weighed myself every morn.
ing, and now, here, no one can success
fully diet to reduce flesh unless he weighs
himself regularly. When l began to see
that was reducing at the rate of one.
one and a-half, two, and some days as
high as four pounds day, l felt encour-
aged and persisted. The first month /
lost twenty-five pounds, and in few
months more l was so reduced that /
could walk mile or ride on horseback.
That did me good"
"You smoked some during the time?"
"Yes, fifteen or twenty cigars day.
Smoking doesn't seem to be injurious to
me. had to do something to keep my
nerves soothed."
''Do you still keep up your rigid sys-
tenn of diet?''
"Well, while l am here in the East I
am eating as much in day as ought
to in week, but the moment see am
gaining flesh l start in again with the
weights and measures
'How much flesh have you lost since
you began two years ago?'
II weighed 27O at the start; now l
weigh 100. l have reduced my waist
from flfty-eight to forty
inches, and wear an eighteen and one
half inch collar where l used to wear a
twenty-four inch, and feel ever so much
better. l can get around easily and take
some comfort. There is nothing like it.
According to insurance tables man of
my height and build should weigh about
1853 pounds. l presume l could diet
down to nearly that, but am satified.-
Boston Globe.