Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-09-12
WEAKNESS OF FAT MEN.


Their Conversation Too Often Runs to
Filtration or Food, Says Lady Lindesy.
Why is it that as rule fat men are so much
more amorous than thin menf Is it that they
grow fat on the pleasant pastlme of making
love, while more intellectual pursuits run to
skin and bone' Many fat men are simply
rather stupid, good natured and inordinately
vain; they are generally tile last, and it may
be that the pleasant sensation of vanity is
good nourshment. But it is surprising how
often, given the opportunity, the talk of fat
men runs to Irritation or to food. OF course
don't mean to say that a fat man always
talks of various dishes any more than that
his conversation with woman usually in
cludes an offer of marriage. On the con-
trary, 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
insuf1iciency of service there. Perhaps he
will tell You of his grapes or the size of his
cucumbers, though grapes and cucumbers
al Q iiOb III HIS way llt opiiitlliilto
prides himself on 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 conversation
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 advanced ideas. A
woman, he thinks, should be pretty, irrev-
erent, saucy and given to smiling and blush
| ing 1t Is by blush or a smile that men of
| his type are caught. She has no business to
know ANYTHING about books, except in su-
perficial manner that will enable her TO talk
for five minutes only of poetry and novels.
She should especially know nothing of poll
ties. He does not ike women with ideas Of
their own; they ought to take them distilled
and diluted from men in general and theiI
husbands in particular.
have frequently noticed another curious
trait; it is that after the first few ndulgent
minutes he diverts his conversation TO his
own sex, and Will almost ignore mine, ever
in party of half dozen, for as a rule goot
breeding is not his strong point. There ar,
exceptions, of course, and l have known
some charming ones. / am only speaking o
the majority. Ii | were girl would pra,
heaven to save me from a fat man Well /
has.
Many fat men have made love, or tried u
make love TO me, but comparatively few
have come to the point Your fat man
cautious, and does not commit himself to
direct offer unless he is certain that he mean
it, and is equally certain that he will be az
cepted As rule he is certain of the latter
for modesty is not his besetting virtue; be
sides, be is of the type that thinks all wome
are signing for matrimony, longing for it a
the one grand treat of their lives, and of
refusal it is difficult to make him believe tn
reality.-Lady Lindesy in Temple Bar