The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-23

gsstion equally decided. II yelled. fol-
lowed their praise OF her. The last
suggestion that decided her to take a
positive step came when she had an
opportunity TO get an engagement with
q professional company under very ia
vorable circumstances. But IL would
have been necessary for her to wear
short skirts. and the ~impossibility of
tina was as evident to her manager as
Ii was to her. That settled her mind
as to the matter of taking on more
flesh. She went to the doctor to dnd
| out what could be done. The regimen
Of theatrical life usually fattens wo-
men quickly enough. But some flesh
was necessary for her before she could
start on her career
She was q young oma in good
health. with q moderate appetite. the
strength of the average woman of her
age. and nothing in the world TO keep
her thin beyond the act that IL was
not her nature to be otherwise. She
ate what she wanted without any idea
Of what its effect would be.
The doctor heard her story, n to
the complaint that she wanted to get
fat and 10 it Immediately he was not
reassuring.
VIVA do you weigh now ?" he asked.
"One hundred and two pounds" was
the answer. and / am five feet eight
inches high. i want to gain abou %
or 80 pounds as soon as i can. n
maybe I'll need more. Z have never
been anything but thin. and i don't
know how much it needs to be plump.
l want to be plump"
The doctor suggested h a 80 pounds
woul be enough. and he added mat
II would be becoming. He was a pro
f~eSsional' doctor. accustomed to speak
with little ceremony to those OF his
clients who followed the theatrical
calling. The girl was too much inter-
ested i'm the question OF h 80 pounds
to pay any attention to the possible
compliment. Besides. she herself knew
that she would look better.
The doctor prescribed, and within
three weeks the girl came back to say
that she had gained nine pounds. She
continued to follow the rules which
the physician had laid down for her.
and h continued to increase in flesh.
BY the end of two months she had
gained 20 pounds. and the third gave
her three more. Ultimately the mum
Der was increased to %. The 80 never
came. As there has been no diminu-
ton, however. in the numbe of pounds
she took on, IL Is not improbable that
flesh may continue to come until the
other five W. been added.
The usefulness of this course of
treatment is never likely to be so great
as that of the process by which Miss
Amelia Summerville added to her fame.
She was like the majority of her sis
tiers on the stage and grew stout. 1t
rarely happens that any Of them have
to be helped toward hat result.
THE advice that the doctor gave
me-" said the girl who had gained flesh
and along with the increase a place
In which she wore short skirts as well
as any one could have done, was
chiefly in regard to what / should eat.
For breakfast l tool usually some un-
derdone bacon, not cooked until 1t was
dry. but juicy and greasy; a glass of
milk and cream. potatoes, usually
roasted or stewed in cream. MARINA
lade or preserves of some kind, and
buttered bread, not toast. / happened
to like bacon. which was the best
thing for me when cooked i'm that way.
so I could get along with that. The
milk was not so easy, nor, for that
matter, was the marmalade. 1 hated
both of them. but as the alternative
was coffee with sugar, 1 preferred the
milk and cream.
Potatoes for breakfast were rather
difficult to get accustomed TO, but i
stuck to them until they were easier
than j supposed they would become
Formerly l used to drink only a cup
VI toiitS liz = nj
l ate more potatoes and drank a bottle
of beer. with bread and butter and
sweets afterward. When / was not
equal to the beer ! took more cream
and milk. 1 always hated buildings,
but they had to be included, so / ate
farina and rice M blanc man and
every other kind. Fer dinner I tool
that l loathed. Beer was n Of the
latter things. I nae no salads or
pickles. no red wine. as no vine of any
/ excepting champagne was per-
mitted. and that very rarely came my
way. Before going to bed i drank a
'Siass of milk. That l VAS told never
to miss. The doctor said that anybody
might grow fat on h ordinary diet
that / took at meals, but it was the
milk at night that really a the diff
ference. That. he said. would make
any person stout who stuck to il long
enough. l was in a hurry. though, sc
every possible help a to be used in
my case. l had all the sweets I want
ed. and, as 1 a no taste for them.
that privilege was not highly appre-
ciated. The doctor said it was the
fact hat i cared for nothing that
made flesh that had always kept me
thin. l had never eaten a great deal
at any time. and the things / did eat
were not Of the kind that increased
flesh. / was always muscular for a
woman. and when 1 did begin to grow
stout, 1 had a foundation Of muscles
that prevented me from becoming
stout in a way that showed how quick
ly l had acquired my hesh. / was told
to walk no more thar four miles a day
and to sleep eight hours. ! did all
these things, n the result was that
the flesh came just as I had wanted il
to. May be too much of IT will come
after q while. But 1 have a long time
to wait. and l doubt very much IL IL
will be too excessive for years to come.
1t is certainly better in the meantime
to be comfortably plump than to re-
main scrawny merely for the purpose
Of avoiding flesh hat nay possibly
come after q number Of years. It
is not only better IL you happen to be
an actress-it's positively necessary.
Everybody on the stage canncS be .
Maude Adams."-New York Sur.