The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-02
HOW TO GET FAT.
a Few Simple Rules of Diet and Rest
Which Are Effective
From the NelO York VOID.

From the NeiC York World.
A few weeks ago the Sunday World gave
the fat people few practical crumbs of
comfort by telling them how to rid them
selves of their supsr1uous flesh. Now the
lean people are clamoring in great numbers
TO know how they can aid to their attenua-
ted bodies the muscular ii ssues which their
fellow-citizens are throwing away. The
question is difficult one to answer. In the
first place nature did not intend that we
should all go about with our bones hidden
beneath mountains of flesh. There must
and always will be some lean and hungry
ones
"Thinness, as a rule" said a well-kn own
physician to a reporter, sis constitutional.
1t depends largely on temperament aud hab-
1t. Nature always makes an effort to keep
up the equilib ium. Thus when, after long
sickness, the body becomes emaciated the
wasted or lost tissue is speedily regained
as the patient becomes convalescent. Then,
you may say that attenuation is often a
chronic disease, Like all the others, and
quite as incurable. 1t is perfectly natural
that certain persons should be sparingly
supplied with flesh. They are healthy and
as rule live longer than those who are far
sJouter The main point is
to keep the body we'll nourished. In
most cases where the loss of flesh is slow
and gradual there is some form Of sickness
present that causes it. Nature, like every
evenly balanced and well-organized body,
always repairs during rest the waste that
has occurred during the day. A prepond-
erance OF fat is always a sign of impaired
health, and 80 thin people who are trying
to increaseitheir weight must start out to
make muscular aud not adipose tissue.
This can be done in many ways. l have
demonstrated to several of my colleagues
that can pu, half pound of flesh on my
body every day as well as take that amount
off IN the same time, continued the doctor.
Il experimental on myself for eighteen
days. At the end OF that time | was just
8 pounds heavier than l was when began,
and l could easily have continued increas-
ing my weight had l chosen to do So"
How did you do it!" asked the reporter.
Every night just before | stepped into
bed ate as much OF stale bread crusts and
Roquefort cheese as l could comfortably
swallow, washed it down with bottle of
beer or BASES ale, and jumped into bed
That sounds strange in view OF the fact that
we are told that the worst thing we can do
is to eat just before retiring. Well, 7 con-
TESS it very disagreeabe to try TO go to
sleep with a stomach full of food The first
few nights couldn't get wink of sleep,
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diet, in fact, it not only agreed with me.
but got to enjoying my ante-bed luncheon.
Every day put myself on the scales and
found that | increased half a Dcuad in
weight as each twenty-four hours went by.
Besides this l took to lounging about tie
Office and lying down without going to
sleep as often as / could do so during the
day. l took no exercise to speak whatever.
All the while | kept my kidneys under close
"a p6 EaI
of liquid. This was practically speaking,
all did"
The doctor is in his ordinary condition a
well-nourished man, free from all signs
of chronic disease and trifie above the
average weight.
Prof. Detweiler, a German physician of
high standing has a sanitarium in Silesia
where he treats persons who are wasting
away with disease. He has been very sue
cessful and has accomplished many astound-
ing cures. He uses no medicine at all. His
system is to get MS patients to eat as much
and as often as they can. In plain words,
1t is nothing more or less than system of
forced feeding. At this sanitarium the
tables are always set, and besides number
of irregular luncheons each guest is obliged
to eat eight regular meals day If a per
son suffers from an impaired appetite the
doctor soon corrects the difficulty and then
he begins to pile III the food. No restric-
. ions are placed upon the patients save that
they are not allowed to indulge in amuse =
ments that require mental or muscular
exertion. To make sure that the patients
do not bolt their food DR.. Detweiler gener-
ally sits at che head of the table aDd beats
time to eacn mouthful, just as band
master cOmpels his musiciaas to hold a
note. 1t Is an odd sight to watch the
patients eat to musical time beat, but it
has telling effect, and few people leave the
Sanltarlum after sojOurn of two months
with less than 20 pounds more flesh than
they had when they entered the institution.
All the while the patients are required to
sleep in tents in tie open air and are not
allowed to do work Of any kind. Even in
cases where the emaclation results from
consumption or chronic disease of long
standing Dr. DsJweiler has succeeded in
| etectllg a cure. OF course when disease
Is present 1t Is treated in the regular way.
The rule TO be observed by those persons
who feel that they ought to be a trif1Ie
stouter is simply this: Avoid exciteme t
and keep your mind as much as possible in
state of reposs and free from worry.
| People of nervous temperament should
control themselves. Learn to sit quietly
| for long period and don't rush about con-
Stunning muscular tissue by unnecessary
| movements.
After carefully observing this iniuction
for brief time, if there is a loss Of appe.
lite that does not depend on aggravated in
| digestion, it will soon give place to a keen
enjoyment for food. Eat all you can and
as often as you can, avoiding hot things.
| such as hot bread and that which is made
| from the filer grades of wheat. Stale bread
made of flour containing portion of the
chaH Is far more nutritious than light.
| freshly baked bread. The diet should con-
sst OF such articles of food as are largely
composed of starch and sugar aud oil.
MeaJ in large quantities should be avoided
| All things should be thoroughly cooked in
order that the raw material can undergo the
| chemical change that otherwise wouldhave
to be done by the stomach. BY all means
educate yourself to enjoy malt liquids ike
beer, ale and porter, and, lastly, sleep as
| long as your time allows.
These rules and such suggestions as YOU
will observe by watching yourself will soon
add all the flesh 10 your frame that you
want. The main point after having gained
the required muscular tissue is to keep on
Watching yourself.