Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-06-27
HOW TO BECOME PLUMP
Diet to Give Dimpled Cheeks and
Rounded Shoulders.
ADVICE FOR THIN PEOPLE.
Celia Logan Having Aided Those Who Would
BE Thin, Now Gives Counsel to Those who
Need More Flesh on Their Bones-Lines Of
Beauty.
Written for The Evening Star.

Written for The Evening Star.
IN YOUTH-'THE SEASON MADE FOR
JOY, as Sheridan phrases it-a girl should be
pump enough to be pleasing to the eye. Her
jaw and cheek bones should have sufficient flesh
upon them to give u soft, rounded contour
70 her face. Her neck. like a column. should
have every chink covered aud rest upon firm
shoulders, well filled in to hide the clavicles
Ihe chest should rise into a gently swelling
bust and thence slope evenly downward TO the
round. supple waist
| From the shapely arm no sharp elbow joint
should protrude, but should taper down to .
bone-hidden wrist, supporting a small. dimpled
hand. with fingers prettily curved. Alas! not
to every daughter of Eve is given the exact
proportion of adipose tissue indispensable to =
| faultless form. Many of our girls are too thin,
and, knowing it, resort to various specious
artlhces Of dress to conceal their skinniness
and succeed fairly well far as the body is
concerned but there are points Of the human
frame which defy art to soften or change them.
| Mhen art falls them our women, enlightened
| anu progressive, call upon science to aid them,
and l, humble exponent of one small but
not unimportant branch of it. have been asked
II, knowing how to teach the fat girl to become
| slender, cannot instruct the too slim girl how
| to coax adipose tissue enough upon her bones
| 70 meet the requirements of beauty.
Unhesitatingly reply that it can be DONE
! always provided that the person is healthy that
| the thlnness arises from disease, such as
atrophy Of the tissues of the body "a malady
which mainly supplies museums with their
living skeletons" This wasting disease is
caused by want of healthy digestion and assimi-
istlon which gradually deraEges the blood
glands, 80 that they cease to form blood in
quantity sufficient to nourish the body.
| CHEsTSUrs AND CHAMPAGNE.
Corpulence and fattening always originate in
the way people live and eat. This was proved
by DIR. Chambers, surgeon to the Queen of
England. He delivered a series of lectures
upon corpulence in 1850. and until 1863 when
BantlnS Letter appeared, Chambers
the highest British authority upon this subject.
lie related several experiments which had been
made with view to ascertaining the exact re-
lation OF diet to obesity, and cited the of a
| thin young girl who was led upon chestnuts
and allowed to drink great deal of cham
| payne. In snort time she became enor-
| mously lat. bur returned to her natural shape
when permitted to resume q rational diet
Lebig was OF the opinion. based upon his ex-
peIImeGts, that fat is formed directly from the
starches and sugar eaten, and upon his author
lty 1t lis stated that ono weight be increased
at the rate of a pound week merely by eating
hVe ounces o. sugar daily. Ills does not mean
| by Using it a sweetening to coffee or tea but
/ BIZ eating it solid.
| More recent investigations than Liebig's show
Clearly that the albumen (the foury part in
corn, wheat and like grains. the feshy part OF
the cocoanut. and so ON Is the principal source
OF the fat stored i'll the body. This albumen
alter /: has reached tle cells of the tissues,
! derSoes certain chemical changes by which
part Of IL Is converted into fat and part goes
to the nutriment of the tissue cells. The cells
! can elaborate fat from any kind of food, but
lar more readily from some kinds than from
others.
| FIVE FATrENING FOODS.
person dieting FOX corpulence who eats only
lean meats may be allowed little butter as
! some fat Is needtu, 10 the system; but if eaten
| lmmoderately butter is exceedingly fat;ening
! ltlce. though popularity supposed to be ilesh
forming, is not really 80. may Judge o.
its qualities by those thir races of rice eaters
the hindoos ana Chinese.
Five articles vi food NAV be said to be the
foreordained mctns of building up fat. They
are bread and butter. uiiik. sugar and poIa-
toes. Ia you would WAX fat eat candy
| much as thy pure c;,I Juy.
| offer herewith some su lcestions and give n
| list vi a. ticies of Ivoi .uiedv fCrinaceous
| which u person DESTROYS Of incrl as:rg Lis
wight shDu.i coii fine h.:lse!f to ut Tic table.
Sweet and Irish potatoes. sweet peas. beans,
! green corn, bread, tauioca, butter, liver, ap-
fai;ennS. Crackers especially sweet, cakes.
/ carrots, grapes, grayies thickened with flour
the dressing OF poultry, honey, maccaroni, oat-
meal, parsnlps, preserves aud sweet fruits rhu-
barb, ago puduings, all kinds of pastry, soup
| (JhlcKtned like mock turtlel. musii and milk
and mush fried and battered, nince pies pud-
dings of every kind. all fresh fruits, sweeteaed
AID with cream, ace cream and sauces broths
and melted butter, a lump of which should be
! put into all vegetables and used freely upon
| bread.
| Fanny Davenport blames the bonbon box for
her obesity. Nothing of Eesli. fish, fowl or
| fruit is forbidden to those in the pursuit of
| adipCsIty, but the O:lier kinds OF all eatables
. are to be preferred. Veal and pork rather than
beef and mutton, goose and duck rather than
turhey or chicken, ana tine ollie sorts of fish,
F, such Is GELS and salmon.
Eat only the yelks of eggs and all vegetables
which contain sugar. Pumpkin, when made
| luto pics, Is very fattenlny. DO not eat cram
berries lemons. lettuce, spinach. cabbage lex
! cept the red but not p!ckled no pickles or
! picked yiands are allowed. Asparagus and
tomatoes are for the consumption of the fat
not The lean, bat to these are permitted cheese,
| ientils. ali kinds of sweet and made dishes
rich sravies, thick sauces. corn meal in all its
, numerous forms, salep sayo, succOtash, suck
ing pigs, bananas and nuts of every kind that
grows.
Pleasant indeed are the ways that lead to
| corpulence It's broad avenues may be named
Eat street. Drink street, Sleep and Take Your
Ease street. You may feast on boiled chest
nuts, doushnuts, griddle and buck heat cakes,
molasses pineappies and cocoanuts. Eat only
sweet oranges and all pre- partitions of choco-
late. Coffee is allowed. 1t has no effect either
to Satten reduce in Itself, but can be rem
dered fattening by adding an excess OF milk
and sugar. A cup of hot chocolate, with milk
and sweetened, taken nightly at bedtime ought
| put flesh Il skeleton.
At meals drink milk, the thicker with cream
the better.
Use no vinegar nor acids nor cider Take
no lemonade nor tea. Mix punch is excellent,
but should be drunk sparingly.
! MALT LIQUORS FATTENINa.
Shakespeare says that ''use doth breed a
habit in a man" He always knew what he was
writing about, did Shakespeare. The daily re-
currence of anything is what fixes it into
habit. Medicine taken one day and left off the
next does no good, effects nothing. So it fol-
lows that the fattening process once begun
| to be eHective-must be persisted in. Port
wine is fnttening; so are all malt liquors,
especially lager beer.
friend Of mine who was lean to emaciation
had vainly tried to flesh up" when she was
recommended to drink q schooner Of lager
every day with her luncheon. She followed
this pleasant prescription and by the end of q.
| wear bulky that She nhlirad IN for-