The Saint Paul globe., 1897-11-22
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Diet Will Do the Work.
An Easy Method of Getting Rid of superAuous Flesh

'The most exasperating feature OF
the whole business is the self-satisfied
way in which they go about looking as
though their blessed state was due to
/ their own heroism. Perhaps some of
them are seIf-sacrif1cing, and all that
sort of thing, but in nine cases out of
ten they are thin merely because it's
their nature to be so. Probably they
could not get fat if they wanted to.
Their fortunate state is as much a
gift of Divine Providence as anything
else about them, but from their air of
conscious superiority anybody would
suppose that their own unaided efforts
had kept their Wristbands from in
creasing and relieved them from the
danger of a double chin. But their
naughty air of superiority adds an
other terror to flesh"
There was the desperate tone of a
fat man in that protest, says the New
York Sun. There was a sympathetic
sorrow in the voice that answered
! him.
Then to have them say 70 you in
their condescending way: Why, how
well YOU Iookr What they mean is
How fat you look 1t is one of the
hardest features of the business
| There was a sigh from the speaker
| and another from the man who was
| listening to him. Both of them were
! young. and both of them We're stout
They were facing advancing years with
| no prospect of a diminishing weight
| and the consciousness of the fact de-
| pressed the customary gayety of their
| spirits temporarily. II happened, how
| ever, that both of them were Just at
| that moment engaged in a method of
refreshment which was not likely to
reduce their flesh, whatever effect it
might have on their spirits. They were
accustomed to this method, although
not resorting to it with any greater
frequency than the majority of the
men with whom they associated But
they had grown stout While the other
men had not. 1t was the disagreeable
consciousness of this fact which sent
down the third cocktail in an atmo-
sphere of gloom.
'I don't eat any more than the rest
! Of the men I know" the first speaker
resumed after he had stared with deep
er gloom into the bottom of the glass.
Il take as much exercise as the average
one VI lIleIl anu L OIIllh IO more, DuC
the flesh comes. I'm going to see
doctor"
$50 am l." answered his fellow suf-
ferer, with as much fortitude as
though he had taken a sudden resolve
to heroic effort. 'I'll go with you and
do what he says, whatever it is"
A physician was not chosen without
due deliberation, and while they delb-
tod hot, al
eral pounds to their weight, so the
problem appeared to be growing more
complicated every day. But they
finally found the right man, who hap
pened to be we'll known for his sue
cess in reducing the weight of his
patients. He saw as soon as the two
men came into his Office that their
| cases demanded no special treatment.
| They had merely taken on flesh sud-
denly and rather abundantly, as many
| other men as young as they-both were
under thirty-are apt to do when they
| cease to take the amount of exercise
necessary to keep them in proper con-
dition. One of the men, who was
under six feet, weighed nearly 100
| pounds. Under certain circumstances
! that weight would have been proper
tionate enough. But this young mans
waist was a good deal larger in girth
! than his shoulders. 1t was that un-
| mistakable evidence of excessive flesh
! which showed that the 100 pounds
| were not properly divided into muscle
and bones. Beyond destroying the
lines of their figures, and possibly
making it a little bit more difficult
! than it had been for them to get
around there was no harm likely to
! come to the two patients from the
| twenty or more superf1uous pounds of
| flesh which had gathered just in the
/ place where they were not wanted.
Both of the men were healthy and
young, and neither was addicted to
any habits of excess that would be
likely to make it difficult to lose the
rather sudden acquisition of flesh.
These were the reflections of the
specialist as he looked at his patients,
and it was with conviction that they
would soon be relieved of the wearying
surplus that he gave them each list
of the articles of diet which they
! should avoid 1t was such a list as
any doctor without a renown for max
ing people thin could easily have made
! out But it came from him with all
| the authority that specialists name
could give it, and that helped the two
! men to believe that they had really
undertaken a rather serious task. AND
that gave them courage to stick to the
treatment a little longer than they
[
| presented to them with less formality.
When it succeeded they were dis
posed to praise without limit the pow
ers of the doctor who had recommend
ed it to them. But following the first
| qualification of the success there came
a reaction against the strlctness OF
the menu Then the flesh came back
not so rapidly possibly, nor IN the
same amount, but it came. 1t was
not a serious matter then, however,
for in the case of one man eighteen
! pounds and in the case of another
! twenty-one pounds had disappeared IN
six weeks, and that splendid result
made both willing to relax their ef-
! forts a little and let the enemy once
more start to recover lost grouhu'
/ They thought it was certain that even
! the most serious advance it might
make would always be in measure
under control Other persons who
have reduced their weight by dieting
| have frequently enjoyed, almost as
much as the sense of being compara-
/ lively slim, the conviction that they
! could reduce themselves, at least TO
some extent whenever they Wantd to.
The treatment which these two men
underwent is possible to everybody,
even if he has not the inclination or
the means to pay the doctors fee for
the advice The system which all ply
sicians recommend for ordinary cases
in which, for instance man or Wom-
an feels that ten or fifteen or even
twenty pounds too much weight mas
added itself to his or her Weights
certain to have it's effects. These may
vary in particular cases and that diff
ference shows itself chiefly, in the
rapidity with which the effects of the
treatment are seen.
'It is possible for anybody" said the