Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-11-14
COREY TOO FAT
SAYS MAYBELLE
STEEL KING WEIGHS 21O AND HIS
ACTRESS WIFE SENDS HIM
TO MASSEUR.

New York, Nov. IL. - IT would
willingly give a years salary to get
rid Of thirty-five pounds Of fat re-
marked William Ellis Corey, the $780,
600 a year president of the United
States Steel corporation to Turkish
bath rubber while undergoing electri-
cal massage treatment at bathhouse
at Lexington avenue and Seventy-sec-
ond street. He is taking the treatment
twice week.
The steel magnates amazing gain
In weight since his secoul marriage
has alarmed his actress bride former
1y Miss Mabe,le Gilman, All it is at
her urgent reGue st that Corey Is TN.
dergoing tfa1tEient. Corey weighs 210
pounds, or thfrt- FIVE puurns more
than when he married the former
comic opera singer. The head Of the
steel trust Is s feet inches in height
and Of stoeky build.
Puts Him in Fat Mans Class.
In the days when he pitched coal
at his uncle's works at Braddock, Pa.
Corey was regarded as a model of
masculine physique. While working
his way up the ladder to fame and for
tune Corey did not neglect his gymna-
SUM work Since his widely heralded
marriage to Miss Gilman he has ne
elected his caIisthenics and gone IN
more for motor riding and the thea
tres
The steel kings face is pudgy, his
arms flabby. His girth is four and a
half inches greater than it was twelve
months ago. His once hard muscles
are soft. In fact, Mr.. Corey is getting
in the fat mems class. Stage folks re-
member that Mabelle Gilman as a
rrima donna had perfect horror of
fat tenors. She positively refused to
appear in the opposite role to
Broadway Caruso who measured forty
four inches around the waist line.
so when Mr.. Newlywed Corey tipped
the scales at 210 pounds he made up
his mind to get busy to take off that
excess weight The diet refused to
do the work the second time. and as
a last and desperate chance to get
back In the 175 pound class he sought
out a masseur, who promised that his
electric light bath would do the
trick.
Bat1ed in colored Lights.
| Corey appears promptly at 5 O'Clock
| Tuesday and Friday afternoon at the
bath establishment First he is placed
| In a box which is heated from within
by fifty electric lights, in colors Of
red white and blue. His head alone
is exposed and around his neck is
placed a huge bath towel to prevent
the cold air from entering the box.
i Twenty minutes in the electric light
compartment and Mr.. Corey emerges
Sweating and putting like a porpoise.
He is next placed on a leather couch
and given what is called a tonic bath
and electrical massage. Mr.. Corey ap-
pears to enjoy this portion of the
treatment. He lies face downward
while long glass tube, with shooting
rays Of violet and other brilliant color
effects is gently pressed against his
flesh.
Treatment is not Joke.
Then follows the rough part Of the
treatment. Mr. Corey is taken to the
plunge room and stands with his hands
braced on an iron bar. Two husky rub.
bers = Gus and Herman by name =
take hold Of a hose and play it on the
back of the steel trust president. The
force of the stream Is gradually
STRENGTHENED until it appears to be
Corev's one aim in life to keep on his
feet The chief of the biggest corpora
tt n on earth looks like Il schoolboy
who has been whipped at this juno
ture A hurry run to the steam room
plunge in the swimming pool anc
he is again in the professors room
: for an electrical massage.
When all these different stunts
have been gone through with Mr.
!, Corey lies down and takes a nap I'm
til his wife calls for him In an auto
mobile.
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