The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-06
Autofat Is a New MaIady
Suffered by Automobiles

Society faces new peril.
1t isn't the loss of fortune IN Wall
street, nor yet anything which is apt to
bring diseases or death to the lovers of
pleasure. It's just this:
The $3.50" are getting fat!
Nor Is 1T pate de foie gras, or pea
COCK. or supreme de volatile, or cham
pagne-things which enter the smart
sets bill of fare nowadays. In fact, it
isn't anything that you'd eat.
To be brief, it's the auto.
Automobiling is making society
alarmingly obese. Frocks that fitted
like glove last summer can't be but
toned this year when their fair owners
take them out to wear as second best.
Evening clothes which made the men
look so trim and we'll groom&1 last
winter would make their wearers today
apNear as If they had borrowed cloth
Ing from the Weberfields. Flannels so
carefully put away in camphor last
season against this summer look as if
they had shrunk. But the clothes
haven't shrunk-the people themselves
have waxed in flesh.
Just see Mrs. Hermann Ooelrichs
teuf-teufing down Bellevue avenue
now, fresh from outoing in Europe The
trim figure of last summer has become
rounder and not the less beautiful.
Look at beautiful Miss Burden, so
tfll and slender last winter She's tall
yet. but instead of the willowy figure
you'll see an electric Stanhope, and in
1t plump-well. you couldn't call it
stoutish-6gure-th Miss Burden still.
but not slender.
And there's Reginald Vanderbilt.
Well, he's positively surprising, and
When ne essays the scait5 they groan
| and protest and then the dial spins
around beyond the ITS mark-hoW far
1t wouldn't be fair to tell
Reginald used to -be7a trim looking
poy, say his friends, but now look at
him. Isn't he overwhelmingly stout?"
Whisper it gently. The little set that
| graVitates around this amiable young
| millionaire tease him about his added
pounds. He is the stoutest of all the
men In his set, likewise the most ar
dent auto crank. He's on his honey
moon now, but is due at his Sandy
Polnt farm any day. And the news has
run around that he has piled on more
weight since he went abroad.
Won't we have fun with him." say
the Burden boys and the Whitehouses
those frollcsome young blades who add
to the gayety of naNons as well as of
| Newport go, So = -
Hold! gently. young gentlemen!
All or you weigh more this year
than you did last year, ana next year
you may weigh more. unless you let
| those autos of yours alone and take a
bit of exercise. Look at the once s1en-
der Livingston Beekman.
1 Wo years ago this handsome young
IelloW was straight as a reed. But
then he was playing polo and tennis
and golf. Look at him now. He's an
auto crank and, with his brother-in-
Jaw, another expert at the guiding
wheel, he goes in for automobiIing.
l Mr.. Hickman xWai0I,o
more today than he did when he won
the tennis championship of the United
| states. In fact, IT would be a good
bet that he can beat out Reginald Van
derbilt by several pounds.
See them over at Narragansett pier.
| 100 Why, there's the beautiful Miss
| Rose Wallach, of Washington Misc
Alice Roosevelt's chum. once a svInb,
and now-well, never mind She autos
all the time. And the striking Mrs. l..
Harrison Dulles, of Philadelphia. Nov,
| that she's autoing with her husband
In his white machine she has put on
pounds and pounds and her handsome
| huspano is no longer the slender man
OF days before he bought the auto.
NOW for the reason: The puffy auto
| keeps folks from getting the exercise
lney ought to have. It's so much haid-
| Ter hopping into the tonneau and kit
ing on somewhere, instead of putting
on special clothes to ride the horse
who would conspire to keep YOU thin
It's far more fun to dash through coun-
try roads or skim along the boulevard
In a smart French machine than it is
10 trudge over some 1000 yards of golf
links in the broiling sun.
| Who'd play an exhausing match of
tennis when some friend with a new
| "deviP' wagon which he is going TO
| speed on some quiet back road Invites
| you to come along for the fun? So it's
| auto, auto all day long and auto late
| at night.