Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-04-02
A FAT WOMAN
In Consultation With Her Physician
and His Common.Sense
Prescription.
TDio Lewis Monthly. I

u have called to consult you about the
strangest thing in the world. I will tell you
all. ! am % years old. When I was 10
weighed 122 pounds; now / weigh SO9; L am
all filling up with fat. I can hardly breathe.
The best young man that ever lived 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. I can't blame him. He Is the
noblest man in the world, and could
marry any one he chooses. 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. I am sight to behold.
And now have come to see if anything can
be done. I know you have studied up 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 more feeling (after the
manner of fat women, who are always emo
tionaD, until she broke down in hysterical
sobs.
I 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 slice of
white bread twice as large. For dinner the
same amount of meat, or, if preferred, fish OF
poultry, with the same amount of farinaceous
or vegetable food in the form of bread or
potato. For supper, nothing.
2. Drink only when greatly annoyed with
thirst; then nouthful of lemonade without
sugar.
3. Take three times 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, can't walk; my feet are
sore"
II thought that might be the case, but if
the soles of your shoes are four inches broad,
and are thick and strong, walking will not
| hurt your feet. You must walk or work
until you perspire freely, every day of the
| week. Of course, you are in delicate health,
with little endurance, but, as you have told
me that you are willing to do anything, you
hours every day."
4. You must rise early in the morning, and
retire late at night. Much sleep fattens peo-
pie.
5. The terrible corset you have on, which
| congresses the centre Of the body, making
! you look a good deal fatter than you really
| corset which any dressmaker can fit to you
corset for the lower part of the abdomen,
which will raise this great mass and sup
port it.
"This is all the advice have to give you
at present. At first you will lose half a
pound day. In the first three months you
will lose from twenty to thirty pounds, In
six months, forty pounds. You will con-
| Sf0ntlv ir,h
cessive emotion, and be much stronger.
Every one knows that very fat horse
weighing 1000 pounds, can be quickly re-
duced to 1000 pounds with great improve
ment to activity and health. It 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.
dunn, and one week from now, when you
come again, weigh yourself and tell me how
much you have lost"
I happened to be out of the city and did not
see her until her second visit, two weeks from
our last meeting. 1t was plain when she
entered that already her system was being
toned up, and when we were again in my pri.
vate Office, she said:
| 81 have lost six and 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, if it kills me. You must be very careful
not to make any mistakes, for shall do just
as you say. At first the thirst was dreadful.
I thought 1 could not bear it, But now
have very little trouble with that"
AS the wedding day approached she
brought the figures 152 on a card, and ex
claimed, with her blue eyes running over:
II am the happiest girl in the world, and
don't you think have honestly earned ita
think am great deal happier than / should
have been if l had not worked for it,
The papers said the bride was beautiful.
thought she was, and suppose no one but
herself and husband felt as much interested
in that beauty as l did. took sort Of
scientific interest in it.