The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-10

irritahiity rather than good nat
ure, having Us underlying base in
disease. intellectually the fat vary, a. in
disposition, exactly as the lean do. Soms
OF the greatest minds the world has ever
known have been Incorporated in fat bodies
Epaminondas, the great statesman aud
general, was OF such enormous bulk that
three people could not eucircle him with
their arms. DIR. johnson was very stout,
aud so was Mile Georges. the renowned
French actress. even in the zenith OF her
fame, when Napoleon the Great 81 much
admired her acting. He. too, became
excessively tieshy, especially toward
the close Of his life. The Princess Mathilde,
cousin OF Napoleon Ill, and a woman of
brilliant intellect, was ponderouslv stout, a
defect she sought to conceal by wearing
loose draperY. Jules JanIn, the prince Of
critics, was SO fat that his cheeks and chin
protruded beyond his beard. Balzac was
SO large that il was laughingly said that 1t
was days exercise to walk around him
ROsssini broke the furniture he sat upon. SO
great was his weight. The famous Italian
singer, Lablache, was charged three fares
when no Travelled.
FAT MEN WHO WERE NOT FAT WIrrED.
Sydney Smith, though fat, could hardly
be called fat witted. Eugene Sue grew so
stout that, hoping 70 reduce himself, he
drank vinegar to excess. This was one Of
the oldtime antidotes for corpulence, and
one most detrimental to the health. Viii
liam the COnqueror, John Sooieski, the
Polish king, and Ludwig XVIII of France
were all obese men, so was Phny the
younger. He inherited his tendency to
corpulence from his mother, whose life he
saved with difficulty at the destruction Of
Pompeli, she being too fat to run or even to
walk fast to his Yacht, which lay in the
bay. Among the extremely corpulent Of
illustrious Romans was Antonious, the con-
sui and friend of Cesar, and Caius Marius,
the great general and consul.
David Hume. the metaphysician his
I torian and political economist, was uu-
wleldy from excess of adipose tissue. Cath
crime III. of Russia became Of immense size,
with layers of double, rolling chins. In
this particular she resembled good Queen
Anne Of England, who died of obesity.
According to the physicians OF Ter time,
Anue's grossness of body was caused by her
drinking hot chocolate and milk, sweet
ened with sugar, every night before sleep
ing. Nothing fattens one more rapidly
than sugar, five ounces of which eaten daily,
it is said. will increase the weight one
pound week. This is a fact for the con-
sideration of the lean who wish to become
stout.
Dumas pere and Saint Beuve arc two
more instances of fat men, decidedly not
fat witted. The list might be prolonged,
but enough examples have been cited to
prove that however eDervnting to the
physical powers obesity may become, IL does
not necessarily diminish the intellectual
activity
Are the fat always good naturedg The old
proverb of "laugh and grow fat" would lead
US to think so but it is not the obese who
laugh SO much as the lean who laugh at
them. Their heavy, unwieldy forms, their
waddling walk their shortness Of breath,
their sutferings from heat aud from the
slightest fatigue have from time Imme.
mortal been considered legitimate subjects
for mirth and ridicule. Even Shakespeare,
in his immortal creation Of FalstaG, says:
81 shall think the worse Of fat men,
CELIA LOGAN