Smyrna times., 1904-10-19
STOUT PEOPLE TRY EXPERIMENTS.
Various Exercises INDUCED 10 TO do Away
With Their Too Solid Flesh.

WIN IuO SOlu TleSN.
Hundreds of stout people make
many experiments to do away with
some of their too solid fesh," says the
YOnkers statesman. "Some undergo
the starvation regime, and hold, as it
were, a perpetual fast, decreasing
certainly the household expenses, and
sometimes the adipose tissue. The
temper of the patient under this treat
ment, however, is apt to grow bad, and
proves the truth of the old adage, ga
hungry man is an angry man. Luckily
starvation is seldom carried to an in
furious length. Nature asserts itself.
Physical exercise is held by many to
be an infallible remedy for stoutness,
but the advocates of this treatment
often forget that increase of exercise
induces a corresponding increase of
appetite. Thus the person who golfs
for, say an hour before breakfast,
walks to and from business, golfs or
cycles again at night, will require to
eat much more than the person who
leads an entirely sedentary life.
The exercise will be beneficial to his
general health, and develop that
muscular activity of which so much
written just now, but it is not so
certain that it will make the patient
thin. During the summer almost
every one does much more walking,
cycling, gOling or Observation-Disclosures
is the particular hobby-than is custo-
mary at other times, yet every holiday
maker would be sorry and astonished
to come home looking thinner than be-
fore. OF course, the system of train
ing undergone by professional athletes
undoubtedly reduces one to the de-
sired condition of leanness, till like
the hero of popular novels one does
not carry can ounce of superfuous
flesh, but it is not every one who has
time or taste to follow this system.
People of wealth and leisure, when
they find themselves growing stouter
than is fashionable or becoming, be-
take themselves to the German baths
to drink the waters and diet them
selves. Nearly all hydropathics boast
of treatment for reducing corpulency,
but there is fashion in everything, and
as it is fashionable to go to Germany
to drink the waters, to Germany
they go. Swimming, riding, boating,
bowling are all recommended as fat
reducing exercises, and IN moderation
they are certainly good and safe for
most people, and if they do not bring
the desired thinness they bring the
inestimable blessings of good health
and good temper.
Funniest of all fat cures is that OF
walking on ones hands, instead of on
the feet! OF course, this unique ex-
ercise would be required to be per-
formed in some private recreation
ground. One can imagine the con-
sternation of the passerby if bulky
elderly gentleman should suddenly
start to walk downtown on his hands.
The walk would probably become
rather short. 1t is permitted to small
boys to walk, as the children say.
Like the people in Australia" but
then the youth has its privileges, and
the average man has no wish to lml-
tate youth in this. Worry, some say,
is sure cure; still it is cure all
wise folk would avoid. 1t comes un-
sought, and none are sorry to see it
go.
After all, there are worse things in
the world than being fat, and after
certain age little roundness of figure
is sometimes to be admired. Laugh
and grow fat" and a round, merry
face is surely much better than Ion 9
sour visage.