The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1888-09-15

TO FILTRATION on .yOoD, sAIs
LADY LINpEeY.

4 AAOA AAWN~Ae -t
Why is it that % . rule fat men arc
20 much more amorous than thin men
Is it that they grow fat on the pleasant
pastims Of making sere, while more in
tellectual pursuits ran to skin and
bone 7 Many fat men are simply rather
stupid, good natured aud in~ordinately
vain; they are generally tho last, and
it may be that the pleasant sensation
Of vanity is good n~ourishment. But it
is surprising how often, given the OPP
p%ortunity, the talk of fat men runs to
/ Irritation or to food. OF course l I don't
mean to say that a fat man always
talks of various dishes any more than
that his conversation with a woman
usually includes an offer of marriage.
On the contrary, perhaps, knowing his
own weakness, he is more chary Of his
proposals than are his leaner brethren ;
by the same token he does not openly
| discourse on food, but he will amble
off gently in its direction.
He will tell you of the best dining
places in every continental city he has
visited, or remark on the wretched
cooking here, the insuficiency of SER
vice there. Perhaps he will tell you
of his grapes or the size of his cucum-
bers, though grapes aad cucumbers
are not much in his way. He some
times prides himself OH his cellar, but
he will oftener know the ingredients of
an out of the way curry, or have at his
fingers ends the names of places
where you can get choice and curious
dishes.
So in talking to women his CONVEX
sation runs to little compliments and
a semblance of love making; he talks
OF marriage, hedges round it, and
smiles and looks up to see if they are
pleased. When he speaks of women
it is from the old fashioned point of
view that he considers them, for he is
too fat to hurry on and catch up ad-
vanced ideas. A woman, he thinks,
should be pretty, i%rrsverent, saucy
and given to smiling and blushing. II
is by a smile or a blush that men of
his type are caught. She has no bust
moss to know anything about books,
except in q superficial manner that
will enable her to talk for five minutes
only of poetry and novels. She should
especially know nothing of politics
He does not like women with ideas OF
their own; they ought to take them
distilled and diluted from men in gen.
eral and their husbands in particular,
l have frequently noticed another
curious trait; it is that after the first
few indulgent minutes he diverts his
conversation to his own sex, and will
almost ignore mine, even in a party OF
half a dozen, for as a rule good breed
ing is not his strong point. There are
exceptions, of course, and l have
known some charming ones. l am
only speaking of the majority. If
were a girl l would pray heaven to
save me from a fat man.. Well it has
Many fat men have made love or
tried to make love to me, but compare.
lively few have come to the point,
Your fat man is cautious and does not
commit himself to a direct offer unless
he is certain that he means it, and il
equally certain that he will he &C.
copied. As a rule he is certain of the
latter, for modesty is not his besettinq
virtue ; besides, he is of tho type that
thinks all women are sighing for ma.
trimony, longing Cor it as the one grand
treat of their lives, and of a refusal il
is difficult to make him believe the
reality.-Lady Liadesy in Temple Bar.
Nothing To Show. But Scars Fred
ito chum)-What luck, Charley I Con.