Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28
HOW TO GROW PLUMP.
Celia Logan Holds Out Hope for the
Girl Who Is All Bones.
DIMPLED CHEEKS AND ROUND ARMS
Come With the Use of the Sweet and Starchy
Foods and Drinks.
DIET OF CHAMPAGNE AND CHEsTNUTS

In youth-''the season made for joy" as
Sheridan phrases it-a girl should be plump
enough to be pleasing to the eye. Her jaw
and cheek bones should have sufficient flesh
upon them to give soft. rounded contour
to her face. Her neck, like column,
should have every chink covered and rest
upon firm shoulders, well filled in to hide
| the clavicles. The chest should rise into a
gently swelling bust and thence slope evenly
downwards to the round, supple waist.
From the shapely arm no sharp elbow joint
should protrude, but should taper down to a
bone-hidden wrist supporting a small,
dimpled hand, with fingers prettily curved
When art fails them our women, enlight-
ened and progressive, call upon science to
aid them, and I, an humble exponent of one
small, but not unimportant branch of it,
have been asked by readers of THE DIS
PATCH if, knowing how to teach the fat
girl to become slender, cannot instruct the
too slim girl how she can coax adipose
tissue enough upon her bones to meet the
requirements of beauty. Unhesitatingly
reply that it can be done, always provided
that the person is healthy, that the thinness
arises from no disease such as atrophy of the
tissues of the body, malady which mainly
supplies museums with their "iving skele-
TONS" This wasting disease is caused by
want of healthy digestion and assimilation,
which gradually deranges the blood glands
so that they cease to form blood in quantity
sufficient to nourish the body.
Chestnuts and Champagne.
Corpulence and fatten1ng always originate
| in the way people live and eat. This was
proved by DR.. Chambers, surgeon to the
Queen of England. He delivered series
of lectures upon corpulence in 1850, and un-
til 1868, when Banting's 'Ietter" ap-
peared, Chambers was the highest British
authority upon this subject. He cited the
case of thin young girl who was fed upon
chestnuts and allowed to drink good deal
of champagne. In a short time she became
enormously fat, but returned to her natural
shape when permitted to resume rational
diet. Liebig was of the opinion, based upon
his experiments, that fat is formed directly
from the starches and sugar eaten, and upon
his authority it is stated that ones weight
can be increased at the rate of pound week
merely by eating five ounces of sugar daily.
This does not mean by using it as sweet
ening to coffee or tea, but by eating it
solid.
More recent investigations than Liebeg's
show clearly that the albumen (the houry
part in corn, wheat and like grains, the
feshy part of the cocoanut, and so on) is
the principal source of the fat stored in the
body. This albumen, after it has reached
the cells of the tissues, undergoes certain
chemical changes by which part of it 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
far more readily from some kinds than
from others. 1 offer herewith some sug-
gestions and give list of articles of food
chiefly farinaceous which person desirous
of increasing his weight should confine
himself to at the table.
Some Foods That VIII Fatten.
Sweet and Irish potatoes, sweet peas,
beans. green corn, bread, tapioca, butter,
liver, apples, arrowroot, barley, beets-
these are very fattening. Crackers (espec-
tally sweet), cakes carrots, grapes, gravies
thickened with flour, the dressing Of poul-
try, honey, maccaroni, oatmeal, parsnips,
preserves and sweet fruits, rhubarb, sago
puddings, all kinds of pastry, soup Chick
ened like mock turtle), mus6 and milk and
mush fried and battered, mince pies, pud-
dings of every kind, all fresh fruits,
sweetened with cream, ice cream and
sauces, broths and melted butter, lump of
which should be put into all vegetables and
used freely upon bread.
A person dieting for corpulence who eats
only lean meats may be allowed q little
butter, as some fat is needful to the system;
but if eaten immoderately butter is exceed
ingly fattening. Rice, though popularly
supposed to be flesh forming, is not really
so if we may judge Of its qualities by those
thin races of rice eaters, the Hindoos and
Chinese. Five articles of food may be said
to be the foreordained means of building up
fat They are bread and butter, milk, sugar
and potatoes. If you would wax fat, eat
candy, as much as the purse can buy. Fanny
Davenport blames the bonbon box for her
obesity. Nothing of flesh, fish, fowl or fruit
is forbidden to those in the pursuit of adj
posity, but the oilier kinds of all eatables
are to be preferred Veal and pork rather
than beef and mutton, goose and duck
sorts of fish, such as eels and salmon. Eat
only the yolks Of eggs and all vegetables
which contain sugar. Pumpkin, when made
into pies, is very fattening.
What Thin People Should Avoid.
Do not eat craAberries, lemons, lettuce,
spinach. cabbage Except the red, but not
pickled no pickles or picked viands are
allowed). Asparagus and tomatoes are for
the consumption of the fat, not the lean, but
to these are permitted cheese, lentils, all
kinds of sweet and made dishes, rich
gravies, thick sauces, cornmeal in all its
numerous forms, salep, sago, succotash,
sucking pigs, bananas and nuts of every
kind that grow.
Pleasant indeed are the ways that lead to
corpulence. Its broad avenues may be
named Eat street, Drink street, Sleep and
Take your Ease street. You may feast on
boiled chestnuts, doughnuts, griddle and
buckwheat cakes, molasses, pineapples and
cocoanuts. Eat only sweet oranges and all
preparations of chocolate. Coffee Is allowed
1t has no effect either to fatten or reduce in
itself, but can be rendered fattening by
adding an excess of milk and sugar. A cup
of hot chocolate, with milk and sweetened,
taken nightly at bedtime, ought to put
flesh on skeleton. At meals drink milk,
the thicker with cream the better. Use
no vinegar, acids or cider. Take no
lemonade or tea Milk punch is excel
lent, but should be drunk sparingly. Shakes
peare says that fuse doth breed habit in
man." He always knew what he was writ
ing about, did Shakespeare. The daily re-
currence of anything is what fixes it into a
habit. Medicine taken one day and left off
the next does no good. effects nothing. So
it follows that the fatening process, once be-
gun-to be effectiye-must be persisted in.
Malt Liquors and Port Wines.
A friend of mine who was lean to emacia-
alton had vainly tried to ''hesh up" when
she was recommended to drink a schooner
of lager beer every day with her luncheon.
She followed this pleasant prescription, and
by the end of q year she was so bulky that
she was obliged to foreswear the beverage
on account OF obesity. To the lean are per-
mitted as drinks, champagne and other
sparkling and sweet wines, especially port,
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