El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-10
Be Happy Though Stout
f.WOmen Have Got Fat on the
Brain. and Have Gone Mad on
Subject of Getting Thin
By Dorothy Df1

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A FAT girl has written me tear
n soaked missive in which she
4 bewaiIs her increased belt
measure and asks me if 1 can give her
anv good. reliable recipe for reducing
her weight.
No. cannot. If 1 knew any way
to make this too, too solid flesh melt
] should not be engaged IN the oC ~
patton Of writing articles Tor TINS COZ
i1rnn for my daily bread / should De
lending AIr. Rockefeller money, anu
helping out such poor nel$hDoIs IT, q
Andrew Carnegie and Hetty Green me
people with even an alIeSed anJl-LaI
remedy rake in fortunes A rSaI Re
ducrfOn cure that would actually re
duce, would coin so much money IndI
IL would make Aladdin's lamp look ike
old junk. -, ,s,,
and they have all gone stark, staring
mad on the subject OF gelJln8 lhlh- II
has superseded all other interests Win
them. and where two or three are gam
cred together the conversation becomes
nothing more nor less than an expert
ence meeting of the dlIIerehL LOO1
things they have tried in order 10 &C
Quire a wIllOWy figure ana at lndl'
they have failed.
A Burning Issue.
How to get thin IS the burning issue
in every feminine breast The cholcesl
compliment that you can pay a woman
is to tell her how much she mas Ialleu
off, and the feminine definition OF
cat is a sister woman VINO says " ASs
my dear how well you are looking
You must have gained 10 pounds TINS
winter
tenuaUiOn- What they go through, the
agony they endure in trying 20 achieve
it. make the sufferings of the early
Christian martyrs seem a mere picnic
They are thirsty Iney are nun5E4-
Their mouths water for the rich soups
the Succulent roast, the piQuanJ sauce
e Il nel
mince along on a little spinach and a
bite of zWeiback, which are guaranteed
not to be fattening and which their
very soul turns from in lOathlng-
Nor does starvation end their suffer-
ings The tOrtures they endure in the
form of exercise il has not entered
into the mind OF man even TO conceive.
That the living skeleton is the &C
cepted ideal Of the feminine form d.
Who was the Paris who first. picked
out the skinny woman as conforming
nearest to the feminine STANDARD OF
perfect pulchritude2 VINO originated
the theory that a lazy love should nave
a lean and hungry look -
Certainly angles are not as beauu-
surely. bones are not as alluring as
firm, warm flesh. A haggard cheek,
with hOllOws in it, is not as kIsSaDIe
as a round dimpled one 4 full, milk
white throat is more enchanting than
a stringy one that looks like an ana
tOmicaI exhibit Of glands and muscles
or the futurist the thin, anaemlc, tu-
bercUlar looking woman may be pref
tier than the plump, healthy one, Dul
as matter of fact most of US don't
object to a reasonable amount Of adj
pose tissue on woman w ike H.
This is especially true of men Who
as a general thing, prefer the kind OF
q girl VINO makes nice armIul, IN
stead of the kind that looks as II she
were nothing but the original RIB out
of which her sex was made. You never
= hrr IA nd
grow thin, or to lace little tighter.
On the contrary, every husband VINO
takes enough interest IN MS wire 70
notice what she IS DONG urges neE 70
eat all she wants. and drink what she
likes. and have her clothes made loose
enough TO be comfortable
This is what makes women Sacrl-
fees on the altar OF thinness so pa
thetic. for they martyriZe themselves IN
vain. Men don't admire them a bit more
when they weigh $50 than they 90
when they weigh 100, and so loves
labor is lost, and they might just as
wen have eaten whaE they like as not
However you look at ii, the cult OF
emaciatiOn is a foolish one. To begin
with. ii is as broad as it is long, and
it has its disadvantages as well as its
advantages il IS quite true that a
slim figure looks younger than plump
one, but when woman achieves a
sightEess in one place she gets it in
another, and with the 20 inch waist
goes a neck like turkey gobblersy
and arms the size of a yard stick.
Also Wrinkles.
Also wrinkles come quicker in a thin
face than in a plump one, so that in
the end il is a choice between having a
young looking figure or a young look
ing face
As women grow older they either
grow fatter or thinner, and the ad-
vantage is with the fat woman. be-
cause she never has the strained, over
wrought, nervous appearance Of her
haEgard sister. She looks calm. sa tis-
fled, prosperous and happy-the sort OF
fc farar ffn-H p
with, whose laugh is hung on a hair
trigger, and who has enjoyed life and
made il enjoyable for all about her
Nobody loves a fat man. said the
hero in a recent play. but
everybody loves a fat old woman. Look
about you and you will see that the
most adOred wives the most beloved
mothers, and the women with hosts of
friends are not sylphlike creatures, but
stout old LADIES. who would
break the hearts of a straight front