Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-01
WEAKNESS or FAT aeN.
Their Conversation Too Often Runs ,
Filtration or Food, Says Lady Lindsey.

Their Conversation Too Often Runs 10
Filtration or Food, Says Lady Lindsey.
Why is it that as 4 rule fat men are so much
more amorous than thin meni IL II that they
grow fat on the pleasant pastlue Of making
love, while more Intellectual pursuits run 70
skin and bonei Many fat men ara simply
rather stupid, good na;ured and inoriiuately
vain; they are generally the last and il may
be that tbs pleasant Sensation of vanity IS
good nOurishmeut But il Is surprising how
often, given the opportunity, the talk Of 1t
men runs 10 Irritation or To food OF courss
] don't mean 30 say that fat man always
talks of various dishes any more than that
his conversation with a woman usually IN
cludcs an offer of marriage. On the con-
traTy. perhaps, knowing his own wcskncss,
be is NOR chary Of his proposals than are hip
leaner brethren; by the same token he dp,s
not openly discourse on food, bat ho viii
amble off gently in is direction.
He will tell you of the best dining places
in every continental city be has visited. or
remark on the wrctched cooking here. tho
insufhciency Of service there Perhaps hs
win tell you of his craps or the size II his
cucuinbers. though grapes and cucumbers
are not much "a his WY. He sometimes
prides himself on his cellar, but &c VII
oftener know the ingredients OF an out Of tho
way curry or have at bis fingers ends tho
names OF places where you can get choico
and curious dishes
So in talking to women his conversation
runs 20 little compliments, and a somblaIce
OF love making: be talks Of marriage. hedges
round 1t, and smiles and looks ~ % soe II
they are pleased, When be speaks 81 women
IL is from the Old fashioned point q view
that he considers them, for he u fop Fat 70
hurry on and catch up advanced ideas A
woman, he thinks, should b. pretty. irrev-
erent, saucy and given % smiling and blush
ing. IL Is by blush or a smile that men u
his type are caught Sic has no business TO
know anything about books, excerpt in a sJi-
porficiaI manner that Will enable her u talk
for five MINUTES only Of poetry ard novcla
She should especially know nothing Of poll
tics. He does not ike women with ideas u
their own; they ought 70 take them distilled
and diluted from men IN general and their
husbands In particular
have frequently noticed another curious
trait: 1t Is that after the first fow lrdnlgent
minutes lie civerts his conversation 10 his
own ser, and viii almost icuors mine, cvsa
Ia "a party o. half dozen, Tor AZ a ruso good
breeding Is not his strong point. There ars
exceptions, OF course, Gnd | have known
some charming one& ] Am only Speaking q
the majority. II were q girl / woald pray
heaven 70 save me from fat man. Wen j.
has
Many IA. men have made love. or It'd u
mako love To ne, bat comparatively few
have cone TO tho pcsnt iocr lat IaAf Is
cautious. and does not commit hf1nself 10 a
direct oTer unless he II ctrtala tina, b rleans
IL, and "a equally certain that hs VII te &C
oepted As q rule be Is esrtain of tie latter.
for uio<sstT u not his bezzt;ing virtue; IL,
sides, be Is a lie type that thinks FL women
are signing for rsarrtnouY, long.ng fer Z: a.
the oos grand tTez.. Of their IiT.s ard Of a
refusal {, is difficult 20 make him believe the
rss.l4sE--Lady Lindsey IN Tempe Gar.