The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-05
MISCELLANEOUS.
PLUMP PEOPLE AND Thin ONES
What Makes the Difference

What Makes the Difference?
What makes some people plump and feshy
and others thin and bony? Is the human body
run and shaped in an invisible mould And
what strange effects this difference produces.
Beauty always demands curves-it never allows
angles. A woman may be thin and graceful
but not thin and beautiful. With men the ques
ton Of flesh, artistically speaking, is of less
Importance /; yet it may be of great consequence
in other respects. Too much fat is q burden
too little is also serious disadvantage. How
can we strike the golden mean? if, indeed, we
can strike it at all. With the Turks fat is the
standard of beauty, and with all nations a
in animals and in men, But the tendency
seems to be the wrong way just now. There is
vast number of gaunt, pale. thin people; peo-
pie manifestly under their proper size and
weight. Many of them are actually emaciated
yet not markedly suffering from recognizable
disease. Most of them eat heartiIy-sone of
them voraciously Still they remain thin-sorne
times repulsively so. Commonly they are also
very touchy and sensitive. They have nerves;
they are full of nerves. They catch cold easily;
they are upset by trifles; they lack force and
courage. While not necessarily ill at any par.
ticular time they are the ready victims OF
any disease, and fall in multitudes before
any epidemic. They provide consumption with
most of its subjects. M
Now, if they eat why don't they grow feshyf
Why do they continue pale, thin and feeble?
Because they do not digest and assimilate their
food. Indeed, their meals more often work
harm than good. The torpid and disordered
stomach cannot do the work imposed on 1t. The
contents ferment and putrefy and scatter
poisonous acids all through the body setting
up govt, rheumatism, bronchitis, consumption
and profound nervous maladies. The system
grows feverish. Often there is nausea and
vomiting; sour fluid rises into the throat;
there is distress after eating, deafness and dis
tention OF the abdomen, giddiness, bad breath,
hot flushes followed by creeping chills; yellow
eyes and skin; languor and WEAKNESS not
relieved by rest; aching of the back and limbs;
great hunger alternating with loathing of
food; anxiety and mental depression; shortness
of breath, and variable nervous affections.
Nature needs help. So much is plain Bat
how can we help her? We must do her work
for her for time. We must supply the body
with some perfect food which will not REQUIRE
any digestive labor on the part of the stomach.
Can we do that?
Until recently this auxiliary was sought
among oils and other fatty products, especially
cod liver oil. But these things failed for the
reason that they are incapable of forming real
and solid TISSUE The false flesh they produce
melts away more quickly than it comes. 1t
gives no strength, no warmth Millions of thin,
pale, anoemic, consumptive persons remember
the delusiye hopes of recovery they were led to
indulge by the advertisements of these fat-and-
oil compounds or emulsions; and how these air
castles faded into gray disappointments.
No; the fats and oils won't do. Experie1ce
proves that. The only reliable remedy is not
drug but a food, prepared from certain fruits
rich in starch. and pre-digested so as to require
for the present no digestive action; food
capable of being at once absorbed into the blood
and building up the body without putting
strain on the enfeebled digestive organs q
This is wonderfully done by the new prepara-
ton called Paskola, which is made on the cor
rect scientific theory. When eaten for it is
food, not drug, it Immediately becomes
fiesh-building, life-giying element in the blood.
An increase of vitality. vigor and weight is felt
at once, and the symptoms of the previous de-
pressed, devitalized state pass away.
( Yet Paskola, while a true food, needs to be
used for short time only. 1t gives nature
power to put herself to rights and then its work
is done. The point is that it soon enables the
stomach to digest any food, even strong meats.
Then the patient may follow his appetite and
consult his palate Alone
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the hectic flush soon leaves the consumptive's
cheek, the skin assumes the hue of health, the
night sweats cease, the cough dies away, and
the emaeiation is lost under coating of solid,
warm and normal flesh.
Physicians already report brilliant results
produced by Paskola in the digestive torpor
characteristic of all febrile diseases, and en-
ploy it in the place of stimulants-the old
treatment. The patients stomach at once
absorbs Paskola, which keeps up his strength
until the disease is vanquished. Its usefulness
in this direction is beyond estimate.
OF late years pale. thin people, of both sexes
have come to be an increasing majority in this
country. Young persons grow tall and slender,
without breadth or stamina. and perish as fast
as they grow. The statistics of the throat and
lung hospitals tell the story of their fate. They
are born with brains and nerves. but without
the most important arrangement of ALA COM
petent digestive system. The doctors keep
them going on stimulants for a while, and then
they die.
1t is all such as these that Paskola is destined
to save. They don't need medicines, nor travel
nor change of scene. They need food and the
power to digest and appropriate it to the body's
constant needs. That power Paskola gives.
Why should multitudes of men and women
either die young OF be invalds all their days?
Once the reason was-there was no means to
prevent it. Notg there Is.
And this new and rational road to health will
reward all who set foot upon it.
THE Pre- : DIGESTED FOOD co.,
1853 Duane Street, New York.
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