Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-06-08
How Shall Thin People Become Plump!

But for one fat person. there are, es
pecially in New England, dozen lear
ores. Here comes a young woman o
twenty-five, who looks as though sh,
were thirty-five. and the prematurel,
old look comes from this clinging of tn,
skin to the bones. See how hollow hel
temples and cheeks are.
Casting her eyes about the office to Sc,
that nobody overhears. she SAYS:
doctor, what can be done for thes,
dry bones? Why, can hardly make 8
shadow; and while ought to be plumI
at twenty (Which she desires me to un
derstand is her age), here l am looking
ike an old grandmother: Can any
thing be done for these crows feet
about my eyes, and these scrawny collal
bones?"
swell, this is curious: a woman in
just the opposite condition has this mo-
ment left. She is carrying ninety
pounds too much flesh. That makes her
miserable. Now you have not enough
by twenty-five pounds, and that makes
you miserable. have prescribed for
her, and if she follows the prescription.
in six months she will lose her extra
pounds. If you have no disease, bu,
simply lack of fat, | am sure shall
be able to prescribe for you. SO that the
desired twenty-five pounds or more will
come, in the same length of time.'
Il am perfectly well, and l am
strong. too, only am such skeleton p"
LET me question you little. What
time do You 20 to bed?'
Generally about eleven or half-past
eleven"
This must be changed instead of
going to bed at eleven or half-past elev-
en-. if you are really in earnest about
getting plump. youthful appearance,
you must 20 to bed at half-past eight or
nine o'clock. With n fresh, plump,
youthful personnel. a single hour in any
company will CRAFTY you and your
friends more than n dozen nights, with
this tagged and old look. So 90 TO bed
at half-past eight or nine o'clock, and
don't be in hurry about getting up in
the morning. On going to bed and on
getting up in the morning drink as much
cold water as YOU can swallow. Soon
You will learn to drink two tumblers;
and some persons may learn TO drink
still more. Drink all that your stomach
will bear. Spend good deal of time in
the open air, without hard exercise but
exposed to the sun and fresh air. If
practicable ride in carriage some hours
every day. Remain out enough to give
you a good appetite, but don't work
hard enough to produce excessive per-
spiration. Eat a great deal of oat meal
porridge, cracked wheat. Graham mush.
baked sweet'apples, roasted and broiIed
beef. though the vegetable part is more
fattenirg than the animal part. Lie
down an hour in the middle of the day,
just before you take YOUR dinner, TO
rest. and, if possible, take a little nap.
Cultivate jolly people. Laugh and
grow fat rests upon a sound physical
basis. A pleasant flow of social spirits
is a great promoter of digestion. There,
now 20 home, keep your skin clean,
sleep in the room where the sun shines.
keep everything sweet, and clean, and
fresh about your bed, sleep nine, if
possible ten hours in the twenty-four,
eat as l have told YOU, cultivate the
Jolly spirit, and in six months you will
be a. plump as even your lover could
wish.m
NY prescription for the fat lady was,
keep your eyes open and your mouth shut.
My prescription for you is, keep your
eges shut and your mouth open.-Dr.
Dio Leris. III Golden Rule.