Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-09-19
FAT AND LEAN.
..+.yistios Of Men with an Excess or
thA' +, Lack of Flesh.

r. may he observed, without inten-
II ofTense TO any young lady who
~ be euamored of some skeleton
u t.ts Young man that. as rule, TAT
I'm besides being the most Jolly ana
n''nrivial OF the male species, are also
80 he the most considerate OF and
~ itable to others. Most fat men
ogar ready to smile, nay, TO laugh
aa,ortily. They usually possess happy
.nss,nres-perhaps because as class
INV have good appetites and enjoy
LAT they eat. They are more soeia-
tban their lean brethren-a fact
I,.EicL properly explains why no one
.rar heard of lean mans clam-bake
,tar ali is said that can be said
a,sinst them the fact still remains that
I'm ont Of ten fat men make excel
lent husbands ,
their ideals of men who are tall and
can not boast of any unusual amount
If adjpose tissue. They spurn the
i5a, If a fat man for lifelong COM
nanion. and vet many marriages with
tat men and also with men who grow
ranidIy or gradually stout after mar
,.ia0e have turned out very well.
lady who has her home on Fifth
o,anue a widow, whose two husbands
renose side by side in Greenwood, re-
marked the other day to the writer:
,.Ny first husband was of the brunei
order. tall. angular, sallow-faced,
saturnine, uervous-even to irritability
~ times. and more or less of an invalid
during the latter part of his life. No
couple could have furnished a wider
contrast in temperament than our
selves. am social by nature, fond of
attending theatres and of sightseeing,
while he was a morbid recuse, taking
no interest whatever in the worlds
Cayeties. really believe if he had
had little more Aesh on his bones he
would have been aHfFerent, not to say
a happier, man. Mind you am cast
inc no stones at his cherished memory.
M second husband belonged to
another genus. He was feet inches
in height and weighed $50 pounds
He was pronounced blonde and
nerfect picture Of health, He took an
interest in everything where mirth
and a good time were promised. But
the poor man drank too much cham
payne and ate too many late suppers
and apoplexv carried him of,
A lady in Brooklyn on being asked
what physical style of a man she pre-
ferred replied: The one | have suits
me very well He is neither fat nor
lean. According to my ideas of mas
culne physique he is just right"
Another lady who was present yolun-
teered the information that her hus-
band was too flt for his own comfort
aud that when he moved he suggested
to her the picture of a big piece of
animated Jelly. Going up Que flight
of stairs made him puff like a tire-en-
CINE, aud he was always complaining
Of some pain She feared that lie had
fatty degeneration of the heart. 1t
seemed to her that his moral sense
mad grown bluuter as he acquired flesh.
and in conclusion she said that she did
not have much admiration for tlabby
fat men.
A popular clergyman, who weighs
over 250, on being asked his views re-
specting fat men thus replied, with a
merry twinkle in his eye: There are
different kinds Of fat men. There is
the little round, oily, fat man. There
is the digasilic fat man who owes his
extreme ayoirdupois to beer and high
living. OF course | can not approve
of him as fat man. There is the
man who gets abnormally fat because
he is lazy and INDECENT. To me such
man is an object for compassion.
But for ,hc man who is born and stays
i fat or the man who gets fat naturally
n a, he natures have the highest re-
spert providing the man in other ways
Is worthy.
A lnnk. cadayerous-yis aged poet,
who Is often seen walking along News
paper row, was recently asked if he
would DOT enjoy life more keenly if he
was q hlle more corpulent mo, he
swiftfuIly and dsdainfully answered,
"cUrpulpncy benefits aldermen, hood
lers, ami saloon-keepers. Though
literary man, ! never indulge in malt.
Whlch-to paraphrase from Emerson
Is making our Western wits fat and
mean You win find that the majority
u OF intellectual people are not gross.
q though many of them are what might
II '-'.'.' lfiNiA ~ L Nthb iAO bhb N0h
q Fat men and will point you out nine
n stupid men. Was Apollo coarse and
Il unc,uou,3 Was the Greek conception
U OF perfectly nodded body that of one
81 weighing 300 pounds? No. Art and
q poetry ever have sought to immortal
q We such 1.-THE and willowy forms as
Il That Of Venus, such trim, athletic limbs
q as those of Diana, such graceful SYM
81 metry as that Of Hebe Really, /
q would rather be a snail than a fat
"A man.
Assuming" observed tho poets
81 q0est"aer, "that as a rule those not
$ Iat are The most Intellectual and emil
Al Lent in the world, how do YOU account
Il I2l The fact that of all the people who
N OBTAIN divorces only about one-fourth
g are ta' paople?n
ron, returned the poet, ''you might
a' We'll ask why there are not as many
N I's people pa the world as lean. / am
81 ~. married. but if I ever do take a
".i. WV may rest assured that she
81 "-a no. H" woman Of such dimen-
s.0"' ts 70 attract offers from dime