The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-05
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1903
FArNHss AND LONGEVITY.


 to be or become fat? It is not a fad with the other sex. at least not among the white races. With some of the African tribes 1t Is very different. There a wo- mans beauty Is in direct proportion to her adfposity. When she becomes so fat that she can no longer walk. she has reached the superlative degree of beauty. She becomes the envy of all the women and the desire of all the men.
 It isn't that way with us Our women do not long for great size. but the mon do. Perhaps it has always been that way. The lean man is under suspicion. ''Yond Cassius has lean and hungry look,' said Caesar. Let me have men about me that are fat he said again, because in his estimation, as he said of Cassius. He thinks too much; such men are danger eus." Men who think too much are al- ways dangerous to tyrants. They want men about them who, like Jack Falstaff, Hard the lean earth as he walks" Caesar thought that such men would never waste time thinking of treason or other danger ous subjects. You may see me. fat and shining, with well-cared-for hide" old Horace makes one of his characters say. evidently thinking that to be the highest sncomium he could speak for himself, or on himself
 Evidently this desire for a portly figure yet prevails, or there would not be so many patent-foods to build up human ponderosity True, we have anti-fat nos trums and recipes without number, but they are only to be used by those who have passed the limit and have accumu- lated more fatness than they can conve- niently transport. There can we'll be too much of a good thing. even fat. The thin men, the men with "a lean and hungry look," have been fed to repletion on advertisements of anti-fat foods and preparations, but seldom do they read or hear of anything that will work the other way. Food or drink that will clothe a skeleton with adipose layers, and enable the lamp-post figure to pose in portly beauty and grandeur before his admiring reiIow-citizens. is what they want.
 But the skeleton man is going to have his innings. Here. for example, Is a Jap anese physician in one of the Chicago schools or colleges who proclaims that ne has discovered a food which will cause any animal, quadrupedal or bipedal. to double his size in short time. Whether his preparation has practical value as a product is not yet determined, but he Is confident of it's fat-producing qualities. And another highly important claim for It is that a way may be found to feed this new agent to the nerves and other important tissues in such a way as to prevent their waste and thus prolong life indefinitely.
 Here are two wonderful claims for hu- manity. To prolong life as long as one desires to live. and to build up the waste places, as it were, so that there will be no more walking skeletons, are two prom lses that will catch on and hold fast. It is not only the farmers and food pro- ducers who will welcome this new food, but all the lean men who want to grow fat, and all the people who want to live long will become devotees of the new fad We are told in the Scriptures that "Jes- huron waxed fat and kicked" but the world will be a wonderful sight when it Is peopled with men of Falstafian pro- portions and with centuries of age to their credit. We don't know where room will be found for them. but that isn't our lookout
 And what a boom this discovery, if carried out, will give to the tailoring and cloth-making industries! If men are to be twice as large it is natural to suppose that their clothes will have to also be enlarged That will require more cloth and more work. and so the weaver and the tailor will come in for share of the benefits. We can almost feel the fatness enveloping us.
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