The Washington times., 1919-05-07
PrehistOriCS Admired Fat
Women. Why?
Boy Babies Become Deeply Attached to Stout Nurses
Baby Is Primitive Man.

In the caves of southern France they find drawings by
ancient people men that lived quarter of million years
ago at least Some Of these men, call CroMagnon7 were
remarkable artists.
They reproduced on the walls different animals drawn
not with mere slight talent but with real genius.
They show also, which is interesting, that men hun
deds of thousands of years ago controlled and used the
horse For whereas their pictures of other animals show
those animals running Free their pictures the old walls
show the horse with rope bride around his nose.
What interests scientists and some writers of short
pithess paragraphs is the fact that these artists evidently
passionate admirers of very fat They make
pictures of thin full of energy. They make animals
muscular powerful running swiftly But their pictures OF
always show giganticay FAT Individuals their hips
wide that it must have been difficult for them to wadde
around the It is evident that everything done
tomake them fat possible evident also that ancestors
Of the distant day liked women when they were TAT and
ONLY when they fat For they do not condescend to
make pictures Of any but the very latest
man puzzles scientists.
WHY was fat so much admired? We know that among
the bees and the ants the queen very big insect much
larger and fatter than ordinary insects that wait upon her
But you establish any connection between the curious
instinct of the bees and the fatworshping ideas of the
cave man.
Among the HOttentOt savages of day you still
existing preposterous admiration for very fat
They have in Paris in the of Tdn deS PqnteS
lifelike reproduction of Hottentot Venus that
had to Paris and died there It would be immodest
her in her melike monstrosity as the museum did.
is enough say that the ladys diameter passed all
human belief, and yet it was not exaggerated
The cave admired very fat women because in the
first place, when famine came cannibaEsm praciced
Perhaps the of ancient days said to himself 81 might
well love fat woman, then If the worst to the
worst can eat her and pull through the winter"
Some young men of this day say, 81 might well
marry rich GIRL her money nothing against her. and
the worst comes to the worst can live on it."
is to be remembered also that primitive peoples v
ing in the probably most of them very thin from
hunting wild animals and each other.
Fat, in their eyes, was sign of leisure and safety.
They admired it, the couldn't have it, they wanted
to have it. It kept up fair average in the next
generation.
You know that the very prosperous American who
would fool he went around wearing diamond or
pearl necklace much happier when he looks the
table and his wife wearing the necklace He admres
that his wife, the CroMagnon gentleman admired fat
his lady.
Also and finally bear in mind that the modern infant
Of today is in many ways like the full grown savage And
every wetrained will tell you that small babies
especially boy babies prefer stout They will get
along with thin she is kind and attentive But
let them choose and the choice is fat nurse upon
whose soft shoulder the head can rest without feeling anv
bumps.
Those of the period went too far in the fat
direction there doubt about that Some of their ladies
Judging by the drawings must have weighed four hundred
pounds On the other hand modern fashion goes too far
che direction of bones Man should fooshy admire an
accumulation of fat should he devote himself literally
% rag and BONE with daubs of rouge and powder at
The upper end the hank of hair Arisotle's mot too
much, not too little" applies to fat