The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-14
HOW TO GROW THIN.
Celia Logan Tells Experiences
With Obesity Cures.
MUST ABSTAIN FROM FLUIDS
Queer Results of Initiating ROYALTY
Eternal Starvation Is the Price
of Leanness.

The first thing insisted upon in every
Obesity cure within my knowledge is alb
stinence from certain articles of fat form
ing food. Anti-fat doctors advertise that
no dieting is required, but have never
known any so-called cure without its &C
companying diet card, every one of which
have preserved and given to the reader
as l received it. My experience goes to
show that corpulence can only be perma-
nently removed by thorough change of
life and diet, assisted by continuous exer-
else.
There is a vast difference of opinion
among physicians as to the manner in
which this dietetlc regimen should be con-
Quoted. The worst of all methods is the
starvation treatment, because setting
aside the deprivation and sufferlng-while
we starve We lose albumen, which is the
very principle of life, the principal element
of the blood and muscles, at the same time
that We lose fat This brings about pow
erty of blood-anamia-whi may be
carried so far as to seriously injure the
health and even endanger life. That is
the case with the oldtime Banting corpu-
1t induces anamia, which requires an inn
mediate compensation, and consequently
a speedy restitution of the adiposity for
the removal of which starvation was
inaugurated. Thus by these starvation
processes the patient loses his fat, but re-
| gains it as soon as he stops fasting.
Any treatment which is so hard that it
| can be followed only short time is to be
rejected as worthless. The great question
| is, what nourishment will best sustain life
and reduce fat at the same time? A Ger
| man physician, Ebstein by name, thought
| he had solved this difficulty, and few
| years ago gave his views to the world in
| little pamphlet entitled "Corpulence and
| Its Treatment"
THE EPSTEIN CURE
The following regimen is that by which
he claimed to have removed the super
fluous fat of his patients:
/. Breakfast-one large cup black tea. without
milk and sugar; about two ounces of white or
brown bread and plenty of butter. Time-In
summer, $50; in winter, $50 am.
?. Dinner (about PM .-Soup with bone
marrow occasionally, four to six ounces of
meat, boiled or roasted, with fat gravy, espe-
cially fat meat, plenty of vegetables, cabbage,
and. most of all, legumes (peas, beans). Beets,
sugar they contain almost totally excluded,
potatoes entirely. After dinner little fresh
fruit, occasionally some salad or stewed fruit,
but without sugar To this was added two or
three glasses of light white wine. Soon after
dinner large cup of black tea, again without
sugar or milk.
3. Supper between and p. m.)-In winter
regularly and in summer occasionally, another
large cup of tea, without any sugar or milk.
One egg, or some small plate of ia. meat, or
both; or some ham with its fat, sausage, smoked
or fresh fish, two ounces of white bread, with
plenty of butter, and occasionally little cheese
and little fresh fruit
The plenty of butter" clause struck the
fancy of adipose America, and for while
every mother, too, too stout, son and
daughter were trying Ebstein's system.
Plenty of butter! Plenty, mind you; not
little, but plenty-all you wanted, in
short. This was on the theory that fat
does not make fat. Hitherto the popular
belief was that fat does make fat. Further
more, the Ebsteinites were allowed all
| sorts of delicious, fat things, like salmon,
| liver pate, sauces, soups and gravy. Only
| few sweet things, like sugar, were forbid
| den. Lured by the light of plenty of
| butter" / ceased to repine because there
was too much of me, exclaiming with Fall
staff: "A plague of signing and grief! 1t
| blows a man up like bladder"
/ weighed, and then EbsteIned for
| week and weighed again. / had gained
exactly five pounds. Plenty of butter and
! five pounds increase. Next week the
| same and the next Plenty of butter and
| fifteen pounds more fat on my already
| overburdened bones.
EBsTEIN's CURE FIRED.
In all my trials of obesity cures CD
| drew the line at fifteen pounds increase of
weight. In my righteous wrath and just
| indignation put Herr Ebstein's obesity
| book into the fire. Plenty of butter, in
| deedl Why, was so disgusted that did
not for a long time endeavor to interfere
with my fat, but just let it have its own
| sweet will with me. l swore off obesity
cures-until the next time.
That time came when DIR. J. w Gibbs, of
| West Fourteenth street, introduced into
| this country the celebrated Schwenninger
| cure for corpulence. twill be remembered
| that Schwenninger was an obscure doctor
| practicing in Berlin, where he sprang into
| fame by reducing Prince Bismarck from
| 2i6 pounds down to 1s6 pounds. His secret
| was the utmost possible abstinence from all
| fluids. Drinking anything was forbidden
| for one hour previous to and during meals,
| and for one hour afterward. To one
| always accustomed to drink coffee tea or
water at meals, the Schwenninger prohi-
] Dltlon Is torture until 1t becomes a habit.
| l learned that which | have stated in
! former article as a physiological fact, that
| hunger is more easily borne than thirst.
In this treatment, as in all others, a GER
tain secret medicine was given.
| DIR. Gibbs refused to administer this in
my case, considering it too powerful for
weakened constitution, as it was so potent
that only two drops of it were taken at
| time. Some restrictions as to eating were
imposed upon Schwenninger patients.
MENU FOR FAT MEN
/ append the dietary card 1t will be OBJ
served that Light, bitter beer" is allowed:
Lean mutton and beef, veal, lamb. tongue
| sweetbread. soups mot thickened), beef tea and
| broths, poultry, game. eggs, fish, cheese, bread
| lin modeTation), greens, spinach, water eress
/ mustard and cress, lettuce, asparagus, celery,
| radishes, French beans, green peas. Brussels
/ sprouts. cabbage, cauiitower, broccoli, sea kae
| onions, jellies mot sweetenedl, fresh fruit lin
| moderation, and without sugar and cream,
! pickles.
MAY NOT EAT.
Fat bacon and ham, fat of meat, butter
creams, sugar potatoes, parsnips, carrots, beet
root. rice. arrow root, sage, tapiOca maearoni
vermicelli. semolina, custard, pastry, and pud-
ding OF all kinds, sweet cakes, nuts of all kinds
MAY DRINK