, 1884-02-09
A A WOMAN
In Consultation With Her Physician
and his Common-Sense
Prescription.

lDlO btNh mOHtnuy.
81 have called to consult you about the
strangest thing in the world. l will tell you
ell. / am 20 years old. When l was 10 !
weighed t22 pounds; now l weigh 200; l am
all filling up with fat. / can hardly breathe.
The best young man that everlived loves me,
and has been on the point OF asking me TO
marry him, but of course he sees / am growing
worse all the time, and he DON'T dare TO
venture, / can't blame i'm BE is the
noblest man In the world, and could
marry any one he chooses. I don't blame
him for not wishing to unite himself TO such
a great tub as l am. Why, doctor, you don't
know how fat | am. / am a sight to behold.
And now / nave come to zee II anything can
be dome. / know you AVE studied mp all
sorts OF curious subjects, and 1 thought you
might be able to tell me how to get rid of
this dreadful curse"
She had been talking faster and faster,
and with more and moro feeling latter the
manner Of fat women, who are always emo
tionaD, until she broke down In hysterical
sobs.
gave her the following instructions and
told her to call again in a week;
l. For breakfast eat a piece OF beef or NUT
ton as large as your hand, with q sice of
white bread twice as large. For dinner the
same amount of meat, or. IL preferred, fish or
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or vegetable food in the form of bread or
potato. For supper, nothing.
9. Drink only when greatly annoyed with
thirst; then a mouthful OF Lemonade without
sugar.
8. Take three times a week some form OF
bath, in which there shall be immense per
spiration. The Turkish bath is best. You
must work, either in walking or some other
way, several hours a day.
~But, doctor, l can't walk; my feet are
sore"
II thought that might be the case, but IL
the soles of our shoes are four inches broad,
and are thick and strong. walking will not
burt your feet You must. walk or work
1ntil you perspire freely, every day Of the
week. or course, you are in delicate health,
With little endurance, but, as you nave told
me that you are willing TO do anything, you
are to work hard at something six or seven
hours every day
4. You must rise early in the morning, and
retire late at night. Much sleep fattens peo-
pie.
8. The terrible corset you have on, which
COMPRISES the centre of the body, making
you look a good deal fatter than you really
are, must be taken off, and you must have a
corset which any can fit 70 you
a corset for the lower part OF tho abdomen,
which will raise this great mass and sup
port it
This Is all the advice I nave to give you
at present. At first you will lose half a
pound n day. In the first three months you
win lose from twenty 70 thirty pounds. In
six months, forty pounds. You will con-
stantly improve in health, get over this e1-
cessive emotion, and be much stronger.
Every one knows that a very fat horse
weighing 100 pounds, can be quickly re-
duced to 600 pounds with great improve
ment to activity and health. 1t is still easier
with a human being. THAT you may know
exactly what is being done, / wish you to be
weighed; write the figures in your memoran-
DUN, and one week from now, when you
come again, weigh yourself Inc tell me how
much you have lost"
/ happened to be out OF the city and did not
soc her until her second visit, two weeks from
our last meeting. 1t was plain when she
euterel that already her system was being
toned M, and when we were again in my pri-
waite nfiicr, sho said:
II have lost six and a half pounds; not
quite as much as you told me, but / am de-
lighted. though nearly starved. / have done
exactly as you prescribed, and shall continue
to, II 1t kills me. You must be very careful
not to make any mistakes, for l shall do Just
as you say. At first the thirst was dreadful.
l thought 1 could not boar It. But now I
have very little trouble with that" .
As tho wedding day approached she
brought the figures 152 on a card, and ex-
claimed, with her blue eyes running over:
Al am the happiest girl in the world, and
don't you think / nave honestly earned iti /
think am a great deal happier than 1 should
have been II l had not worked for it."
The papers said the bride was beautiful. /
thought she was, and l suppose no one but
herself and husband felt as much interested
In that beauty as ] did. l took a sort OF
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