Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-20
IN FAVOR OF CURVES
No Need for the Jagged and
Angular Frame.
THINNESS NOT HOPELESS
Great Discovery Which Is Being Made
Practicable.
MORE FLESH THE MORE FAIR
Any Woman May Now Tip the Beam
at Weight of 800
Pounds

possess beyond the shadow of a doubt the
quality of putting flesh upon the most
habitGally Jagged and angular frame
/ Fenugreek had been discovered as the
underlying cause that made of the dusky
-Jewesscs race of women who carry great
quantities of flesh. Far eastern races have
known of its qualities for thousands of
years and have profited accordingly, while
in America women were angular and un-
mated and unaware of the fact that their
condition was not necessarily hopeless.
The mythical plant made real IS beng
sliced upon by the members OF the medl-
cal profession of this country who would
divert it from the path of romance IN
which II fits the ancient dame Tor the
matrimonial market and are exploiting II
as Offering the most substantial ala YET
v discovered toward the cure of the dread
white plague. Flesh is the ever important
enemy of consumption, and when the
frame can be maintained at the normal
there is still hope of cure. If the fenu-
greek will maintain flesh, as its introducers
believe a great aid in the hshting Oh
tuberculosis has been found.
The discovery of the unusual qualitles OF
fcnugreok which is but an unimposlng
little plant growing wild in northern Africa
and now being cultivated IN some OF oul
western orchards and developed IN among
The trees came about through the aCliNi-
ties of some of the explorers OF the De.
partment of Agriculture. These agents OF
the government so to all the countries OF
tha world with a Yankee eye wide open
for anything that gives promise OF Proul
when grown in the domain of Uncle sam.
They have struggled rattan cuttings rom ION
Japan. while the willy members OF tnat
race have sought with some determination
to retain the monopoly of the MATING pro,
Queer. They have found IN siberia d
wheat that will grow the deserts. In
CHINA was found the liberia peach that
has almost monopolzed the market. ana
daily new introductions that increase the
future profits of the nations are being
S,,rrentiti0nSlV OF lerWlSo.
Noticed in Tunis.
One of these explorers noticed in Tunis'
northern Africa, that the women were
monstrously fat. The more flesh they car
ried the greater was their popularity. and
with popularity came marriage and with
marriage came to the parents OF the
maiden a sum of the coin of the realm
based upon the weight of the bride ana
paid by the groom, for such is the quaint
reversal of formalities in north Africa
Unthrifty indeed was the parent VINO al
lowed a daughter TO reach the age OF mat
rimony without ability to tip the scales
at weight OF go pounds, anu many "eiSA
more when prime =,
The inquisitve American went extensive
" into the manner of accomplishing TINS
desired result. His mind was upon numer-
Gus maiden sisters and aunts and cousins;
and he even thought of his own youtnful
days when he fought with all the boys az
the cross roads schoolhouse Tor ouDoins
him '.spiderlegs" He was told upon IN
oulrv made polite by the crossing OF the
palm with Il coin, that the secret lay IN
fenugreek. And fenugreek-why. here was
fenugreek by the roadside
The lore of the fenugreek came from tiie
dim and distant past when the grayDeards
of the east told of ii to their daughters anu
taught the art of beauty. Among all THESE
eastern races the ideal OF beauty IN woman
has gone hand In hand with the attainment
OF great weight The sylph-like maiden
who would charm the modern westerner
was the off-suit two-spot IN the ancieht i .A
cast The fat girls married and the slim
ones languished in solitude. This was true
in ancient Jerusalem. and before that time
II was true among the Budists or lndla.
Among both of these peoples fenugreek ana
its effects were we'll known and to its Sc
ductive influences was resort often hdu IL
Is reliably stated that it Is because OF the
use of fenugreek that these races nave de-
yeloped into nations whose women are all
corpulent The Jewess of today. even of the
most modern of American types. Is inclined
toward the heshy. and the origin OF that
fact is traced back to the fenugreek eating
of the centuries that are gone
An Old Acquaintance.
All these facts the Yankee explorer de-
duced and then Investigated the plant 1t
produced a small seed which he crushed
and examined when. 10, he discovered an
old acquaintance. On the farm in his youth
he had fed condition powders TO the horse
This condition powder had contained an
odorous subs tanCe yellow powder. and
this had been the thing that aroused the
desultory v!gor of the recalcitrant horse or
COW as the case might be. Into the United
States, investigation developed. was annual
~ imported great quantities of the animal
stimulant at advanced prices. The light
dawned, and the following season the gov
eminent planted an experimental portion of
the magic flesh producer. That was two
years ago. and il has grown and prospered.
In California the fenugreek is grown a
cover crop in the orchards and recon-
mended TO the orchardmen because of the
large quantities OF nitrogen it puts back
into the soil Its value ingredient to
powders for stock is also emphasized and
something is said, but modestly, of its pos
sibilities as fattener for the human family
and the adaptation as a medicine. These
features are, however. rather apart from
the work of the government and are left to
private investigation by members of the
medical fraternity.
Experiments of Physicians.
Some rrmor OF the qualities of the newly
introduced plant have gone abroad and
many experiments are being carried for
ward Those farthest advanced are proba
bly, the experiments on the part of DR.. A
s V. Mansfelde. treasurer of the Nebraska
state medical board who has attempted the
fattenlng OF people in the last stages oil
consumption SO far he has reported upon
Dul one case ms was llldt oi Il ihaii
worn and cmaciated, weak and thin to an
extreme. The fenugreck was given for a
number of weeks and flesh was rapidly put
on by the consumptive. Some month later
however, he died, but at the time of his
death he was in good flesh and il is held
that his case was 50 far gone that there was
not enough OF his lungs left to nourish a
healthful body.
The possibilities are yet TO be determined
The greatest of aids to the cure of con
sumption may have been found. Assured y
there is ground for the belief that the
irregularities of the too wand-lke forms OF
the elderly unwed may be relegated to the
pages of history. The gaunt hurrylegs Of
the masculine gender, developed by a toe
frantic chase after the festive and elusiv,
coin In a getrich-Quick age, may under II:
influence tarry a while and eat and rotun
Gity may become an ever present condition
A Queens Scarf