The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-01-23
FAT AND LEAN.


Too Much scrawninsss.
From the San Francisco Alta.
One of the most important questions
now agitating the mind of San Fran
clscans, particularly the feminine por-
ZION, is how to loose or gam flesh. IN
fortunately a popularity of our climate
Is an extreme n way or the other, a
person becoming too fat or too thin. It
Is almost impossible to strike the hap
Ply medium, and aver when nee struck
to keep it. When a man makes up his
mind that ne Is growing too large he
goes to work Systematically, swathes
himself in wet bandages, takes long
walk, perspires freely, bathes often,
eats no bread and butter, nor potatoes,
aor anything dainty or luscious, drinks
nothing but hot water, and reduces
himself at once. Some of our promi-
lent citizens have reduced their flesh
n this way twenty, thirty or aver forty
sounds, and deserve great credit for
bheir sacrifices.
Albeit all human history ~attests:
That happiness for man-the hungry sinneri-
since Eve ate the apples much depends on din
ner."
Women are not so successful. They
can not diet when they walk, because
walking gives them ON abnormal appe-
tite; and they can not walk when they
diet, because lack of proper food makes
them correspondingly weak.
There is a wealthy lady in our city
who weights 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 O
week. She can not lie on the shampoo
table to be rubbed, for she could never
get up again. The attendant is
obliged to perform this Office for her
standing, and an exhausting Job it is,
too. One of her breasts is as large as
al ordinarily fat woman's stomach, and
her arm would match a good sized leg.
The garment in which she bathes would
make q comfortable night shirt for
Capt. Kentzell, and yet it fits her like
a jersey. The bath gives her such I'm
appetite that she always comes pre-
pared with a lunch of chicken, pate de
foie gras sandwiches, and beer, enough
for four people, but which she thor
oughly enjoys and finishes each time,
and yet she expects to get thin.
Now, no woman likes to be called fat.
Fat, according to Webster, means
"feshy, plump, %corpulent; Astounding
with an oily concrete substance"
Fleshy, as a descriptive adjective, is not
SO bad. Plump is just the thing, and
suggests a woman as
Being somewhat large, and languishing and lazy
Yet of a beauty that would drive you crazy.
Few angles tare) there in her form, tits true,
Thinner she might have been and yet not lose;
Yet after all 'twould puzzle to say where
1t would not spoil some separate charm to pare.
That is being plump, but when it
comes to "corpulent, Astounding with
an oily, concrete substance" no wom-
an wants to be spoken of as "that fat
lady, and yet, what is she to do? Some
few have solved the problem. One of
pur prominent society ladies lost thirty
pounds by living on tea alone for three
weeks, and though 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. Anoth-
er well-known lady amongst us has
fattened steadily for years on q curse
of gymnastics, dieting, and gallons of
hot water taken daily.
Fat consists OF two substances, stearin
and eIain, the former of which is solid,
4 H. 1~Ak.. 1.~..1 - ~r~vnn +a.aax,ana-
lures, and on the different proportions
Of which its degree of consistence de-
ponds. 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 q night,
increases the proportion of CLAIM over
s~tearin, and a great quantity of fat in
stomach and bowels becoming liquid
passes away; hence the hot-water cure.
We don't say that this aforesaid lady
imbibed the superstition 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 instance on re-
cord of a 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 a "give away" by
comparison. One honest lady. not SO
i very large looking, confessed, before a
number Of friends, to 100 pounds. The
look directed toward her by others
equally well proportioned were simply
murderous.
Men are almost as bad as the weaker
sex in this respect. They will acknowl-
edge 200 pounds with q great grace, but
after that it is we'll they are not under
path. One handsome six-f0ot bachelor
go rr;od man dnn,f cara 90 mnchl varies