Evening star., 1901-12-14
F EEDlNG FAT FOLK
WHERE PATIENTS MAY EAT. DRINK
AND BE MERRY,
Yet LCse Four Pounds Per Week-Au
Treated-Told by a Specialist.
Written for The Evening Star.

A restaurant and 1000 Snop tnat CdleF
exclusively to the dietary requirements of
stout, dyspeptic and diabetic men and wo-
men is one of the luxuries of the modern
metropolis. Over in London there is
hotel run exclusively for those who are un-
dergolng treatment at the hands OF the
greatest obesity specialist in the world. This
specialist has gone back to the theory and
practice of diet and diet only as a cure
for gout, rheumatism and kidney troubles,
as well as superiuous adipose tissue. I'm
der the influence of the proper regime he
says that you can eat, drink and be merry,
and yet tomorrow you fall off; fall off, too,
at the rate of four to six pounds week,
and continue to lose weight until the
scales and the tape measure register an
nounce that the normal point has been
reached. Then you are discharged as cured.
No More Starvation Diets.
The first STEP however, in cure is to
see your obesity specialist and find out
what your diet is to be. He measures,
weighs and cross examines you, looks down
your throat, sounds your lungs. listens to
your heart, tests your eyes and smiles at
your confession that your parents and
grandparents We're all uucommonly fat
folks.
Fat he will sententiously assure you, is
nothing more nor less than food out of
place, that, as a rule, it is not hereditary,
that in nine cases out of ten it is complicat-
ed with gouty tendency and that there
Is nothing more injurious to fat degener
ated system than CVer-eXerciSe or a Starva-
tion diet. Finally you are dismissed by
MIN with an injunction to present yourself
Tor an office visit once a week. in order
that you may be weighed and made to
confess any infringement of the rules
laid down in dietary list that he gives
you The list is long; to a woman with
ROBUST appetite and sensitive palate it is
delightfully."- full and various, but unless
she has home and a cook of her own she
can only follow the routine of it by market
ing chiefly al dietary shop or by hanging
up her hat in obesity restaurant
hotel. Both the hotel and restaurant will
prove eminently cheerful and inviting
places of entertainment and the shop huns
with activity throughout the business
hours.
cial foods is proved by packing cases piled
high and marked for shipment to Cape
Town, Chicago, Mexico, Hong Kong and
wherever else the blessed news of eating
to reduce flesh has penetrated. Up and
down the glass-covered counters are ex-
hibited the foods that the fat may not
fear and these same articles are being
served to the restaurant patrons.
1t would fill the soul of DR.. Bunting with
horror to see a man with a waist measure
like a flour barrel and a woman endowed
with chinS enough for three persons COM
placenuy order and eat as many dainty
dishes as would figure in the menu of an
ordinary well selected dinner. Ten to one
the man will wash his savory meal down
with champagne and the woman will sip
a glass of fruity looking sherry. However,
not only is no harm done thereby, but from
soup to wines every mouthfu has prob
ably been taken strictly within the limits
of a careful reduction diet. The dietary
that is now regarded as both efficacious
and scientific fpr do
nfal al the hands of the patient
Remarkable Substitutes.
While it is perfectly true that starch and
sweets are forbidden, alcohol is ruled out
and animal fats are all but eliminated, for
every one of these important elements a
capital substitute is offered. For example,
there are ten different types of delicious
biscuits compounded for the stout, gouty
and dyspeptic. They are soft, hard, dry,
rich, sweet or savory, as your taste may
demand, and they are made of almond
-four bran or gluten, enriched with nut
oils, sweetened with saccharine and pre-
pared with pepsin and essence of beef.
These are made to take the place of the
French rolls and white bread that is de-
MED the fat and the dyspeptic. Where
there is a dabetic tendency pure gluten
bread, as light and flaky as Drowned me-
rangue Is one of the substitutes, beside
tne most OellClOuS egg anu almond hour
scones that are served fresh every hour
at the obesity restaurant. In the we'll
known dietary shops on Oxford and Re
gent streets, London, are sold teas prepared
for their patrons. 1t is carefully picked
Ceylon tea, chosen because it contains
more them and less tannin than Chinese
and Indian teas and possesses special di-
gestive and stimulating qualities. In the
restaurant every cup of tea is a separate
infusion for each patron and only a dash
of lemon is allowed as HaVOrlng.
Alongside the teas, saccharine in every
form as a fluid, powder and tabloid is dis
played, and in the tea, coffee, cakes and
desserts absolutely takes the place of sugar.
That in fluid state is sold for in
cookery and close to the saccharine section
are the boxes of meat jellies, the eXqui-
sitely favored but unsWeetened fruit jel
lies and those made from an Iceland moss
and from odd products of the sea.
Near the jellies are the bottled fruits,
scalded and put up in thefrjuice to be served
after stewing with saccharine. For those
whose craving for sweets is unconquerable,
boxes of fruit paste are sold along with
saccharine sweetened and peptonized bon
bons. Row upon row Of jars contain per-
fected soups, fish foods and beef essences
Distilled waters and those that are slightly
efferVeScent are put up especially for the
cCrpufent, who, under the new and perfected
dietary are allowed to drink both before
and at their meals provided they drink
the right sort of liquid and the correct
amount.
Restoration of the Wine List.
The greatest boon, however, that the stout
men and women now enjoy is the privilege
Of drinking wine. Dry wine is the proper
scrt, and so great is the demand for ''brut"
wine that company has been organized to
supply a stimulant that the fat can drink
with impunity. A dry wine company make
a speciality Of the Rhine and Moselle vim
tages that are almost quite natural.
natural or ''brut" wine is as free as pos
sible from sugar and has never been forti-
fed with the addition Of horrible but
widely used supplementary spirit made in
the cellars Of Hamburg for rotten pota-
toes.
Pure and sugarless wines taken in mod
Grafton do not retard but assist the effects
of a flesh redacingS regimen, and to ner-
vous obesity patients dry sherry treated
with pepsin, beef extract and aromatics is
given as a tonic.
Cases of dryS wine, boxes of reduction
biscuit and jars of table water with other
examples of obesity foods are not only
hacked and shipped to all Darts of the