Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28

fat to be sought Weigh before beginning
the fattening process and every week there
after, being careful to wear the same
amount of clothing on the scales. Deter
mine just how much fat you require for
| your size and age and be careful not to ex-
ceed it, for while moderate reserve of fat
is good to draw upon in time of sickness, q
large amount of it endangers the life In
many ways.
| Don't Overdo the Thing.
Obesity once started in the system is apt
| to increase of itself and steadily progress
| until checked. Therefore upon the appear
ance of the first few pounds in excess OF
what you should weigh to be perfectly pro-
| portioned, abandon the exclusively fatten-
| ing diet. To grow stout gradually, which
| is the better way, you should lead calm,
| quiet, inactive, sedentary existence. Ply
sical exertion works off superhuous flesh.
In consequence of the deprivation of exer-
else convicts usually grow fat in prison.
| Corpulence is almost unknown among pro-
fessional dancers and gymnasts and among
| the Arabs and other nomadic tribes. Real
| mountaineers are never unduly fat, and wild
| animals are always lean, because they live
| in a state of constant movement. Do not
| initiate them, but rather the lazy lapdOg
| which sleeps much and eats more of dainty,
sugared tidbits
| Exercise should be gentle and passive, rid
ing rather than walking. If you would in
crease your adiposity, let the street car,
which is few PAGES off, go past without
you. Quietly and contentedly wait for the
next one. Patronize the elevator; when you
must go up stairs take your time. Never
| bathe in water hot enough to cause perspir-
| OFT e. fbs ind hoe 70
| do with getting fat, as well as in other mat
tiers. All the old-time proverbs upon this
| subject refer to the mind more than to the
body, such as "Laugh and grow fat, " Eat,
drink and be merry" not walk, jump, run
and row and grow fat, but laugh and sleep.
Sleep all you can, and cultivate the practice
of taking forty winks anywhere and every
where. Above all, do not lie awake or pace
the floor O. nights worrying about things.
LET the other man walk"
Water Isn't Good for the Lean.
Finally, drink no ice water Drink as
little water as possible. You will be sur
prised to find how small a quantity is really
required to satisfy the thirst. Water in
creases the size by bloating the body.
Lager acts measurably in the same way.
| The increase caused by it is not owing to
healthy flesh. 1t is hardly possible to give
any idea of just how long it will take to
tatten a person while following out the
rules here laid down, as temperament and
| heredity differ so in individuals One may
have an inherited tendency to corpulence
and fatten speedily, while all efforts will
seem to fail with those to whom leanness is
] a birthright.
Only two things can be positively stated
| about the fattening process. The first is
| that women are more disposed to corpulence
| hao r,,Ia
active outdoor lives than women. The
| second is that after 40-when everyone is
| said to be either fool or a doctor-both
sexes "take on" flesh more easily than be-
| fore that age.
A little attention to dress, with view
| either to increase or decrease the appear
ance of the real bulk, should be given by
those afflicted with adjposity or the reverse.
In costuming the thin have the advantage
| over the tat. A lean man can hide his ema-
| citation under loose pantaloons and large,
easy fitting coats. The skeleton dude"
whose face is not gaunt, wears in the streets
big garments, large coats, padded about the
| chest and shoulders so that he appears only
q little thinner than the rest OF mankind,
| and not the living skeleton he is really.
Bernhardts Awful Responsibility.
Bernhardt is as great genius in devising
| costumes as she is in acting, but her ingenu-
ity is entirely expended in trying to deceive
| the eyes as to her thinness. To hide her
| fail like arms she introduced the wrinkled
glove reaching to the shoulder. To her mar
| row shoulders we owe the hideous leg O.
mutton sleeve, and to her long, gaunt limbs
| and skeleton frame generally are due the
| thousand and one variations in draped skirts
that have been rushed in and out of fashion
for the last dozen or more years. We have
to thank her for the hustle and hip draper
les. One monstrosity alone she has spared
us-the hoop skirt.
With all her strivings after the appearance
of plumpness Sarah has novel ideas and an
eye to the graceful and beautiful, but her
creations are ludicrous when worn without
modification by women whose too solid flesh
will not melt nor be squeezed out of sight
by tight lacing. What picture squat,
podgy woman looks attired in the fashions
of this year of our Lord, 1871 The short,
full Medici cloak, which, falling Just below
the waist line, cuts the form in two, as it
were, giving the effect of an Irish peasants
''short gown" breaking and shortening the
line of the form, when the sought for effect
should be long, sweeping and unbroken.
Stout ladies, let ME entreat you to shake
out reef in the skirt so as to give the lower
limbs room TO move about without tugging
at and straining the tether of tape in the
rear of the dress. Let the waist be at least
loose enough to be fastened without the aid
of button hook. fear me much that the
ranks of the female dress reformers will be
mainly recruited from those whose lanki-
ness alone would make trousers appropriate
wear-and then-may not be there to see
the army of the clean and slippered panta-
loon" CELIA LOGAN.