Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-19

the situation is that he who is fat loses right along through life that most precious of human comforts-sympathy. Your obese friend waddles down town some morning suffering g hundred present twinges and prospectively suffering neu- ralgia, fatty degeneration of the heart, gout, apoplexy and lot more of the ills peculiar to his condition. But what sort of reception does he get: Why every body who meets him congratulates him on his splendid appearance, he was never looking so we'll in his born days; it is in- vigorating just to see him from across the street (which is easy because of his size); he will outlast all his relatives. So the talk goes on, while the poor corpulent groans in spirit. If he feebly protests. that he isn't we'll, that he hasn't had a wink of sleep for month or eaten square meal as long as he remembers, the statement is received with amiable skepti- cism. He might just as well lie about it, for all the pity he gets.
 Then reflect that fatness has comic element in it, and none of us care to make that impression steadily on our fellow men. A lover ''with good capon lined" is a monstIosity in literature and hardly to
 be tolerated in actual life He of big girth
 and short wind, when he is in violent mo-
 tion, provokes the laughter of both gods
 and men. Go to fat mems foot race, if
 you doubt it. And this reminds us that
 the physically weighty are (with rare ex-
 ceptions) shut out of sports and exercises
 without number. They can't play tennis
 very well or ride bicycle or do much of
 anything healthful and pleasant. They
 can, to be sure, go fishing, but then the
 fish see them easier and avoid their bait,
 and if it is a question of rowboat they are twice as likely to tip it over or sink it. When it comes to the ladies, needless to say that the misfortune of obesity spells their figures, makes dancing an impossi- ble delight and drives them to the banting process to recall their sometimes grace and agility, which blows are harder to bear l than the accompanying aches and pains. Contrariwise, the person who, like Cassius, has lean and hungry look, ab- | sorbs every day and always an enormous
 amount of sympathy. People insist that 1 he is sick, when as matter of fact he is
 in exube1ant health and enjoying all the good things of existence, lot alone tho bad
 ones. His face is his fortune more truly | than in the case of the proverbial pretty
 maid. The sentimental conviction being
 abroad that he will die young, and that | while he is alive he is silent. uncon- plaining sufferer, he receives a sort of
 anticipatory eulogy all the time, only
 parallel to what you may read on his | tombstone when he has deceased from ex- l treme old age somewhere between ninety
 and one hundred years old. The fair sex l dote on him, pity being akin to love. In
 fact, these thin, dyspeptic, hatohet-facsd
 fellows have the softest snap on record. If
 one of them cracks joke, it sounds fun
 nier by contrast with his appearance; if | he says pathetic thing his whole make ri ror,I oi1 ;1x, l blessed is he of the spare habit.
 The moral of all this is, let your heart go 1 out to the fat and fair in flesh. Stop up the reservoirs of your sympathy which | have been flowing unrestrainedly toward Cassius and his crew, and elevate to his l proper place in the public eye that miser- able, one whose constant inward cry must l be: ''Oh, that this too solid flesh would melt"
 ABOUT THE IMPENDING CONTEST FOR PLACES ON YALE's CORPORATION.
 Yesterdays Register is not quite suited with Senator Evarts as candidate for re- election to Yale university corporation.
 Eulogizing MT. Eyarts and speaking of his
 brilliant talents and his Yale loyalty
 and characterizing him as "a splendid
 type of Yale's intellectual ife," it yet
 holds that younger men are required for
 the work at Yale which is really required
 of member of the corporation. It t'tgoes
 solid" for Edward G. Munsen and speaks
 of him and the other man in the race for
 the two positions to be filled as follows;
 Edward G. Mason of Chicago, his only
 opponent, is in every way eminently quail
 fled for the position. He is man in the
 prime of life, of influential standing among the graduates of the college, and one of the most enthusiastic of her sons.
 MT. Mason has the necessary time at his disposal to discharge the duties of the po-
 sition and what is of equal importance, is thoroughly conversant with the needs of
 the university and is in sympathy with it's lofty aspirations. There is every reason for recognizing the western alumni of
 whom MT. Mason is splendid representa- tive. His election would give new i'm petus to Yales concerns there and benefit
 her concerns here amazingly. Under these circumstances it would be strange indeed if the friends of the university did not dis cuss his candidacy freely and frankly, wholly apart from whatever sentimental ism may seem to be involved in Mr. Evarts' candidacy.
 Of the candidates for the short term. Buchanan Winthrop '62, is the most prom ising one. He is supported by many very influential graduates, who are actively en- gagged in promoting his canvass MT. Winthrop's name has been suggested in previous years, but for personal reasons he has refused, until this year. to permit its use. It is justly urged in his behalf that he is man of cultivation, who is familiar with affairs connected with uni versity life, and who is by temperament adapted to the responsibilities of the posi- tion. He is man of means and would har ha 11 Ia %~ T. attention they demand. Besides all this, MT. Winthrop is man of convictions, and is resolute and independent in his expression of them. There would be every reason to expect good results from his occupancy of fellowship.
 MT. Winthrop's competitors, Mr. Wilson '6O and MT. Beardsley TO, are also good men, whose friends may be relied upon to make strong fight in their behalf, but it is no disparagement to them to doubt the success of their candidates this year. That they will, however, receive hand some complimentary vote that will com mend them to the alumni as good material for future use there is every reason to be- lieve.
 The Hartford Courant puts it thusly: -Four names were presented for the full term and five for the Sloan vacancy, and two are withdrawn from each canvass The withdrawal of candidates under the present method of doing things implies direct loss to every voting graduate of Yale. It IS the custom now for lively candidate, who means to get there, to present each graduate with two cents. Tho contribution in Candidate Winthrop's name has already been sent out; and, when four nominees withdraw at once, it means possible loss of eight cents to each graduate of the uni versity. In view of such 8 sweeping loss, the possession of the Winthrop gift of two cents is only what the advertisements call mildly palliative" The campaign of 1891 is now open, and, if the methods of the ! Winthrop canvass win, we may expect 1 very sosn to have the campaign of 1899 opened, and to discover some leading alumnus hitherto unobserved, in whom l the body of the graduates suddenly recoR- nize long felt want. Perhaps the simplest l way of settling this uneasy question of l election would be to give the place yearly l to the first applicant for it. This would | ensure zeal and promptness in the trustee | and save him two cents on each member of 1 the great and increasing roll of Yale's | alumni"