Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-06
HER LONG FAST ENDED.
May WaIdron, the Young Actress, Went
Without Food Thirty Days
And Reduced Her Weight Sixty POunds-NOw
Tips the Beam at One Hundred
and Thirty-Five.
Chicago Herald.

lOOu LOT eAdCIIy Unity udySy anu sLS 1 z
duced her weight from 1875 pounds to -
two pounds each day Miss Waldorf
had two strong aids in her task-gTit, il
very large doses, and some medicine
prepared by an Eastern physician. Sh,
took one teaspoonfuI Of it three times &
day Her only nourishment during the
fast was the juice of two oranges and
whiffs of fresh air, taken daily. Miss
WaIdron was determined to grow thin
she felt that her avoirdupois interfered
with her business. She wanted to
play the fairy, but her man
ayers all said when she applied
eve are not using 200 pound fairies
this season; come around next year.
So she determined to get thin. She
heard Of this Eastern Doctors medicine
aud ordered lot Of it. She took rooms
at the Clifton house and had a flying
trapeZe put up; she bought dumb bells
and boxing gloves and started in on her
Tanner act.
Miss WaldTon was seen yesterday in
her improvised gymnasium in company
with her mother, Mrs. DR.. Rush.
=. - Yes, - said the actress, 81 think
have accomplished my object; l can go
trouble, but you need not think l am
starved to death. Feel of that muscle;
pretty good arm isn't it! l knocked
mamma out this morning with the gloves;
do you see her nose.
At this point Mrs. Rush Clipped in:
"NOw, May don't talk too much; you
are not half so strong as you think.
Gwen, l m thin, anyway said
May 81 want to tell you how l won a
wager from mamma the other day, -
said the miss turning again to the re-
porter 81 said l could walk around in
The Fair through the crowd and the
people would not know I was walking be-
tween them. Well, l did it and won the
bet; but you should have seen how en-
vIOus the fat women looked. TopsY
Venn was there. We are not acquainted,
but I knew her by sight and she knew
me, and just know she would give any
thing to be as thin as I am. Now [
want you to please excuse me while I 90
and dress; we are going out by and by
and mamma will entertain you until l
am ready. -
When Miss WaldrOn had retired Mrs.
Rush said: "'That girl s weight of flesh
has always been her greatest bugbear.
When a little girl-nO, l don t mean that
for May never was little, but when IN hers
early teens-she used to pine to be slim;
ali her friends twitted her about being
fat. In later years she fought against it
with all her might. She would put on a
thick cloak every day, no matter how
warm, and walk until she almost
dropped, but it only had the effect of in
creasiug her adipOse. 1t is
not for the. sake of nOto-
Tiety that May has gone INTO this
Dr. Tanner business; it is a matter of
dollars and cents to her. l am her
mother and may be paTdOned for saying
she is a born actress and has made a hit
in everything she has undertaken. You
must know the character of the negro |
woman in Steele Mackaye's Noble |
Rogue Well, that was May, and her |
dialect was perfect. She could have had |
good places in 'The SPIDERS Web, in |
The Tempest or in 'Bluebeard' had it |
not been for her size. It has been a hard /
time, tell you, but she has stood the |
ordeal bravely. Why, only a little /
while ago she went and had a tooth |
filled. -
"'Have you no fear that some trouble
may result from this act? Is it not likely
to injure her health?''
Ono, I am sure IL viii not. The doc
tor has been watching her carefully, and
he says she is all right But this is the
end of it. l am not going to let her fast
any longer. Tomorrow we 20 to
friends house, Mrs. VIM s, at - West
Walnut street, where May can have what
food she needs and cooked as it should be
without grease of any kind. She viii be
all right presently, and l don Z believe
she viii grow fleshy again. The doctor
says she viii continue to lose weight, but
o1,u1, al cfp of
is well adapted to many lines of stage
work She is admirable in the burlesque,
and at l25 pounds she can dance grace
fully; and as for her singing '--
'Well, what about my singing,
madam?'' and the young lady was
again in the room.
''For land s sake, May. what are you
doing in that dress? YOu don t think
you are going out looking like that -
owen, no, wanted to let the reporter
see how d dress l wore before | began to
fade away fits me now. How Is it. Mr.
Reporter
What a sight. The dress looked like
one of Big Winnie's on a child. The
waist hung from the shoulders in folds
and the skirt was limp and yards too
ong, dropping to the floor like a dish
,ag 1t looked as if inside that gown
mere. " Us lOOiA tHOllt5Il lOI Two OF the
present May Waldrons.
$50 your fast is over?'' asked the re-
porter.
Yes, so mother says. want TO keep
I up ten days longer, but she says no.
With big n; and to tell you the truth,
am getting Il tTitle peckish, as they say
u England. -
''What are you to begin On?'
'WatermelOus. Don't tell ma, but z
When l was out for my walk I bought a
Whole load and had them taken upon the
Vest Side, where we are going to stop. -
q suppose, Miss Waldron, you have
'een Besieged by fat people desiring to
now about your success and how you
ccomplished it?'I'I
Eyes, indeed; therefh been a stream ,
{ them here, and mamSls has almost
ot out of patience with them >, Some J
eOple wrote letters, too. We received I
ne the other day from Texas II was 3-g
igned Ella Ryan, but from the writing
nd general style, ma ana 1 most know =
was from some fat man. Poor fellow! =
he tries the cure l am sorry for him. 3tbtas4
Glass water sets, toilet sstss;5 d4hinler and =
ca sets cheaper thans esstef before at W. {
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