Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-31
GROWING TOO FAT.

New York Journal: The anthropolog-
zeal department of the United States
government has recently noted with
some alarm a great increase in the size
of the American citizen.
Figures collected from makers of
store clothes show that within the last
10 years there has been an average in
crease in he glrth of Americans of one
inch and a quarter. 1t has been neces-
sary to Introduce a new size in the
ready-made tailoring business. Waist
coats and trousers are now made to
contain an American with a circumfer-
ence of 47A inches, whereas the limit in
1889 was 46 inches. That size, the lead
ing tallorS then believed, would never be
exceeded.
An Increase in 10 years of an inch and
a quarter in the equatorial measure
ments of the residents of this country.
II maintained continuously at thai ratio.
means an increase in 100 years of IL
inches, and in 1000 years of 1875 inches
In other words, in the year 2S99 there will
be Americans at large who will be Is feet
around.
These figures are not official, the an
thropologlca department not having
Drought the calculation to it's legitimate
conclusion. but any one with the slight
est knowledge of mathematics can verify
them for himself.
A remarkable reason is given by the
anthropological department for this add
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the increased consumption of farinaceous
food. The dairy lunch counters which
nave sprung up in thousands during the
pas few wears are to blame. They feed
the public on things which go to make up
adipose tissue. The average citizen a
few years ago used to lunch upon a slice
of roast beef. but he now takes a bowl
OF milk full of crackers, a saucer of corn
starch pudding and a hunk of pie. These
articles are exceedingly fattenins.
our customers are certainly getting
very much stouter,'' said the manager of
a Park Row dairy lunch, when the mat
ter was called to his attention.. Il had
never thought of it before. but now it is
mentioned, ] remember that the last 80
| chairs we had made were much wider
than any we have ever ordered before.
You see our customers come in here
and help themselves to the dishes, upon
the sideboard, subsequently paying for
as many of them as they like. They
plant themselves in front of a counter
crowded with cornstarch pudding and
that sort of thing.
las this pudding is the cheapest thing
| we make, and gives us the most profit,
( we place more of it about. The Gus
toner, finding it SO easily within reach,
takes 1t. nave no doubt it is corn
starch pudding that is making them so
fat. The discovery of the anthropologi-
cal department is entirely in line with
our experience, and the statement of
the department. that Americans eat more
farinaceous food than they used to- eat
is perfectly correct.
THE favorlte food of New York bank
ers for lunch is crackers. broken up in
milk, and cornstarch pudding. 1t is
simply amazing how the cornstarch pud-
ding mania has grown in the last few
years.
/ THE fact of the matter is, that a per-
SON who wishes to diet himself and be-
come thin, has no business to live in
New York and try to eat at restaurants
Every dish served makes fat. Ameri-
cans eat more greasy food. more butter
and sweets than the people of any other
country, and the result is that the Amer
lean is getting to be the latest man on
earth.
"A restaurant was started a few years
ago in the Wall street district that espe-
cially catered to fat men who wished to
train down. Nothing was served of a fat
teaing character. The proprietor knew
tina every fat man would eat adipose
making nourishment if he could get it.
The only way to make him live up to
his good resolutions, the proprietor
thought, was to deprive him Of the
chance.
'The restaurant was hailed with de-
light by a large crowd of 'banting' fat