Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17
inaciously to milk. He does yet with the

most gratifying results.
These facts would lead almost all un-
thinking men to believe that their salvation
lies in milk, but az in the case of Colonel
McCaull it depends almost entirely on the
personal character of the man. 1 have a
cousin who is almost the counterpart of Mr..
Barney, and two years ago persuaded him
to undertake the same regime. For over a
year he worked at the milk diet without the
slightest effect. Now he is building up
very fast, but it is not through the use OF
milk, but by the aid of exercise, coupled
with plenty of ale and stale bread.
1t may be said in general way that exer-
else is the most trustworthy antidote for ex-
treme leanness or unwieldy bulk. 1 have
never seen fat carrier in my life. That
fact is significant enough for the average fat
man. Let him go forth and walk and he
will get thin, with one very important pro-
viso, and that is that he does not drink
after his exercise. If man walks six miles
a day at good round figure it will take
him down from heavy weight to good ath-
letic proportions in time, but the walking
will not do it alone. He must be careful
not to drink anything for an hour or two
after the exercise, and at all times during the
"a hours he must beware of liquids.
DON'T DRINK.
One reason why Colonel McCaull failed
to train down during his violent exercise
was because of the inordinate eating and
drinking which followed his work. When
trainers give men whom they are trying to
train down from heavy-weights to light
weights apple sauce and cold tea to drink
for supper they know exactly what they are
about. After lot of exercise the stomach,
and indeed all the vital organs, are SO thor
oughly aroused and healthy that the assim
lation of food and drink and the subsequent
metamorphosis into flesh is easy.
Liquids make fat. There is no doubt of
this in nv mind, though L am fully cogni-
zant of the fact that good many people will
deny it. The character of the liquids has a
good deal to do with it, but the practice of
drinking invariably leads to unwieldy bulk.
In Spain, where men drink little, fat man
is unknown. In Paris, where the men con-
tent themselves with slipping thimbles full
Of ahsinthe or small cups of black coffee,
the French are thin to a remarkable degree.
The women, on tine other hand, drink great
quantities of champagne, Burgundy, and
latterly OF beer, and they are as a result
prone to stoutness. In England, men drink
ale and beer, and they are thick knocked,
pudgy and heavy race as rule. I had 6b-
served all this many times, and when [ went
to Germany, where 1 knew the consumption
of beer was very great, I had prepared to-
find fat men in abundance. was not dis
appointed. There would seem to be abso-
lutely no end of big, corpulent and un-
wieldly men in Germany. While they are
in the army they are slim and splendid look
ing warriors, but two months after they
leave the ranks they become heavy, puffy
and beefy to the last degree. This is even
so in the ranks among the other soldiers,
and the cavalry were men of such extraordi-
nary weight that they always excited COM
ment from strangers. I may remark incl
dentally that this did not surprise me. I do
not believe in the English fad that riding
reduces man.
On the New York mounted police force
they retire the heavy men every year. III
am not mistaken the limit is 165 pounds.
AS soon as a policeman gets beyond that
weight he is taken from the mounted force
and is allowed to perform his work on foot
thereafter. do not remember ever to have
seen more alert, powerful and athletic lot
of men than those of the mounted police of
New York. The reason is obvious. They
know they will be retired if they get beyond
a certain weight, and the result is that they
keep themselves in perfect trim by exercise
and abstinence from liquids. While the
rank and file of Germans were fat, have
observed that the officers were invariably
slim and almost slender men, who presented
a splendid appearance in uniform.
DIR. swENINGER.
Idevoted good deal l,of deep and strenuous
thought to schemes which would enable me
to get news about the principal persons of
the empire, and among others it occurred to
me to put myself under treatment with Bis
marck's doctor, the famous little Sweninger. i
l found him remarkable and delightful
man. He knew a little English and was
very anxious to improve his accent by con-
versation. He is creation of Bismarck's
more or less. He looks like q Russian
have ever seen, a close clipped beard and
massive wavy eoal-like hair, and
a quick, incisive and nervous manner. He
became disgraced at the very outset of a
promising medical career by an affair with
the wife of one of the professors in the col.
lege where he occupied a small position.
The wife was a beautiful Viennese woman,
and she had been married to a large
and beery professor of chemistry when very
young. When she met the handsome and
iery Sweninger she fell violently in love
with him. There was the deuce to pay. A |
terrific exposure, and some sort of an affair |
between the doctor and the professor which |
resulted in Sweninger's Imprisonment. |
had taken an interest in the case |
rom the fact that Sweninger's actions to- |
ward the woman had been exceedingly |
manly and generous throughout The
7oung doctor came out ruined man, and |
ried TO practice in Berlin, but there was no
hope for him until one day he was sent for
~ the Chancellor of the empire. In an
lour Bismarck had made his fortune simply |
~ the mighty influence of his patronage.
Now the Two men are close and fond COM
,anions.
I explained to DIR. Sweninger after I got |
o know him how eager Americans were to
lear any actual facts about Bismarck, and |
great many oSthe facts and incidents
Ibout Bismarck which cabled from Berlin |
,ame from the doctor-of course with the |
ull knowledge of how and where was 60
ng to use the information. Bismarck's
weight was about 260 pounds when DR.. |
'weninger began to treat him. Without |
Medicine, violent exercise or any other ex-
means, the weight OF the chan
ellor was reduced to 165 pounds, and he Is
low as fine looking man as there is in the |
German Empire, as far as physique is con-
erned. The Sweninger treatment is elabo-
ate, but the main features are that the |
,atient must not eat and drink at the same
ime. His principles have been thoroughly
.dopted by the officers Of the German army,
md that is the reason why the officers are
uch slim and good looking lot of men.
They cannot drink beer, and that is an
.wful cross to the German, but very few
nen can drink beer and keep a waist at the
anne time. BLAKELY HALL.
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