Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-11-22
FAT AND LEAN.

How women Can Cure Surplus Flesh and
Too Much Scrawniuess.
One of the most important questions
now agitating the mind of San Francis
cans, particularly the feminine portion
is how to lose or gain flesh. Unfortun-
ately, popularity of our climate is an
extreme one way or the other, person
becoming too fat or too thin. 1t is al
most impossible to strike the happy me-
dium, and even when once struck to keep
it. When man makes up his mind
that he is growing too large he goes to
work Systematically, swathes himself In
wet banGages, takes long walks, perspires
freely, bathes often, eats no bread and
butter, nor potatoes, nor anything dainty
or luscious, drinks nothing but hot Wa
ter, and reduces himself at once. Some
of our prominent citizens have reduced
their flesh in this way twenty, thirty, or
even forty pounds, and deserve great
credit for their sacrifices.
AlDelt I'LL nuInhu nlsUOTy dlttsIs.
That happiness for man-the hungry sinner!-
Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner.
Women are not so successful. They
can not diet when they walk, because
walking gives them an abnormal appe-
tite and they cannot walk when they
diet, because lack of proper food makes
them correspondingIy weak.
A MOUNTAIN OF FLESH.
There is one wealthy lady in our city
who weighs upwards of 800 pounds, and
she wants to get thin. She is not able to
walk much, as she is too heavy for her
ankles to endure the strain, but she takes
steam baths three times week. She
can not lie on the shampoo table to he
rubbed, for she could never get up again.
The attendant is obliged to perform that
Office for her standing, and an exhaust
ing job it is, too. One of her breasts is
as large as an ordinary fat woman's
stomach, and her arm would match a
good sized leg. The garment in which
she bathes would make comfortable
night-shirt for Captain Kentzell, and yet
it fits her like a jersey. The bath gives
her such an appetite that she always
cones prepared with lunch Of chicken,
pate de foie gras sandwiches, aud beer,
enough for four people, but which she
thoroughly enjoy and nuishes each time,
and yet she expects TO get thin.
Now, no woman likes TO be called fat.
Fat, according TO Webster, me ans ''fleshy,
plump, corpulent; abound dnc with an
oily concrete substance" Fleshy, as a
descriptive adjective, is not 50 bad.
Pluuip is just the thing, and suggests
woman as
Being somewhat large, and languishing and
lazy,
Yet of a beauty that would drive you crazy.
Few angels ,arel there in her form tis true.
Thinner she might have been, and yet scarce
lose;
Yet after all 'twould puzzle to say where
Ii would not spoil some seperate charm to
pare.
That is being plump. but when it comes
to ''corpulcnt, aboun ding with an oily,
concrete substance" no woman wants to
be spoken of as that fat lady" and yet,
what is she TO do? Some few have solv-
ed the problem. One of cur prominent
society ladies lost thirty pounds by liv-
ing on tea alone for three weeks, and
thougL she now eats all she wishes, she
has never regained her flesh. Imagine
the strength of her will, and let others
emulate her who can. Another we'll
known lady among us has fattened steadi-
ly for years on a course of gymnastics,
dieting and gallons of hot water taken
daily.
INGREDIENTS OF FAT.
Fat consists Of two substances, stearin
and elaine, the former of which is solid,
the latter liqnid, at common tempera-
lures. and on the different proportions of
which its degree of consistence depends.
Now, there is a superstition that very hot
water, taken internally the first thing in
the morning, an hour before meals and
the last thing at night, increases the pro.
portion of elaiue over stearin, and great
quantity of fat in the stomach and bow
els becoming liquid passes away; hence
the hot water cure. We don't say that
this aforesaid lady imbibed the supersti-
ton with the water, but she fretted over
her increasing size till she was almost
sick. At last she decided to give up the
struggle and be happy. Strange to say,
she is growing thin. She is the first in
stance on record of woman who fretted
herself fat.
Very few ladies, of any size at all, will
tell how much they weigh, and she who
does excites the enmity of the rest, for
she is such 'glve away" by comparison.
One honest lady, not so very large look
ing, confessed before number of friends,
to 100 pounds. The looks directed to-
ward her by the others equally we'll pro-
portioned were simply DlurdeIeus.
VANITY OF THE MALES.
Men are alno a. bad as the weaker
sex IN this respect. They will ackncwl-
edge 200 ounds w,th good grace, but