Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-10-20
HOW 20 AVOID GETTING FAT.

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Treatment has lately been published in
Germany by Prof Ebstein, of Gottingen.
He is not, like the English "savior of the
stout" full of overhowing thankfulness
for relief from his disease probably he
has not even suffered from it, for corpulent
men are rarely stern and strict. His
method also differs from that of Banting
According to Eostein, the primary cause of
corpulency is the want of sufficient energy
to rerounce the so-called attractions of life.
He firmly maintains that fat is produced
merely by over eating and drinking. Water
and drinking cures are altogether con-
demned by Prof. Ebstein and while the
Banting system teaches that fat makes
fat, this doctrine is directly opposed by
Prof. Ebstein, in whose ideal of fare for
those suffering from corpulency fat forms
great feature. 1.-THE 250 grammes of
bacon" says Prof, Ebstein, (which our
Emperor ordered to be delivered daily to
all soldiers taking part in the French cam
paign of 1870, are, so to speak, an official
acknowledgment of the Importance of fat
in the rational nourishment OF hard
working man.
The annexed bill of fare is that proposed
by Professor Ebstein for an average case Of
corpulency, the invalid being supposed to
be Al years of age, and having suffered
from increasing stoutness for twenty-five
years. The disease is supposed to be con-
tracted by insufficient bodily exercise, a
diet consisting of such things as are hurt
ful, among which are named all sweet
dishes and those containing much albumen,
and those devoid of a sufficient quantity
of fat.
Breakfast-A large cup of black tea,
without milk or sugar fifty grammes of
white bread, OF toasted brown bread with
plenty of butter.
Dinner-Soup Frequently and with bone
narrow, 40 TO $50 grammes of meat,
boiled or roasted, with fat gravy-fat meat
being preferable a small quantity Of veg
etables, particularly leguminous, but also
all kinds of cabbage. Turnips are excluded
because OF the sugar obtained in them po-
tatoes are altogether excluded. After din
ner some fresh fruit, when in season, as
dessert; salad or baked fruit without
sugar. Two or three glasses of light
wine Soon after dinner large cup Of
black tea, without milk and sugar.
Supper-In winter regularly, in summer
occasionally, large cup of black tea with
out milk and sugar. An egg or some fat
roast meat, or both, sometimes fat ham,
smoked or fresh fish, about thirty grammes
of white bread, with plenty of butter, and
occasionally small quantity OF cheese and
some fresh fruit Pail Mall Gazette.
EvAPoRATIoN IN GREAT SALT LAKE
The Salt Lake Tribune says:
Four Yeas ago bathing resort was
opened at Lake Shore, on Great Salt Lake,
a short distance south of Pennington, and
for time it was a popular place. The
dressing-rooms were built on piles in water
three or four feet deep. The lake fell SO
much that the following year the pier was
extended further out in the water and
placed on lower level yet the place be-
came useless as bathing resort, and was
abandoned. The lake rises every spring
and then recedes in the summer and fall,
through the process of evaporation and
smaller supply of water in the streams. At
Lake Shore the water is estimated to be
five or six feetlower than it was last spring.
The changes that occur in the quantity of
water in this lake would be an interest
ing subject of observation and study were
there any definite records kept of its rise and
fall. At Black Rock the Smithsonian In
stitut;on erected monument some four or
five years ago to show the level of the lake
at that time, but there is nothing on it to
show the exact point, and the monument
is now far above the water. The physical
features of the lake have not been regarded
with as much interest as they should have
been in the past, and we hope good sys-
TEN of measuring the water will be
adopted by some one, so that in
the future we may have exact data
for public information. That the
lake is much lower than it was four or five
years ago is conceded by all familiar with
it, and it is generally known that its pres
ent surface is several feet above what it
was when, twenty years ago, cattle fOrded
to Antelope island.