New-York tribune., 1920-05-09

my principal article Of diet ] sup
pose l ought 10 plant some bran,
too, for the bread.
Extra! Another Pound Gone
Later Hurray I've lost another
pound. Only 2o5 now. and there's
hope 1t only goes to illustrate the
power of mind over matter Where,
| wonder, has it all gone to? ! have
been skipping the rope.
wednesday, Breakfast: One baked
apple Ono cream, one boiled egg,
one slice gluten bread (without but
ter, deare me-, one cup of coffee
with saccharine and skim milk. That
will last me till 1O:3O, when l take
my half cup of bouillon and one
cracker. This is the lifei
Later Eighteen nineteen
twenty-one twenty five. Getting
nearer the floor every time At
twenty l think l begin to get my
second wind. Oh, you Marathon,
Now for stiff walk around the
block
II worked up quite an appetite for
luncheon, which consisted Of cold
lettuce and two teaspoonsful of cot
tage cheese.
"a doctor told me once that would
live for six weeks on the fat I've
got. My husband suggests that / go
into Information like bear I'm
afraid I'd be little wabbly when
come out, and, besides, DR.. Robert
son didn't say anything about hiber-
mating. | will ask him about it when
l see him tomorrow. 1t rained all
afternoon, and | couldn't work in the
garden. Anyhow, I lost six pounds.
somehow. | weighed myself on the
butchers scales and everybody gath
cred around to watch me. Still GO
ing down!
"4:30 P. M.-Time for tea with
emon and one cracker. Not very
nourishing, but it helps fill the
vacuum.
"For dinner, boiled Goldfish with
lemon, caulifower, lettuce salad and
an orange. No chance of gaining
weight on that. I'm not so hungry
now as the first day out. I suppose
one could Get used to starvation.
1920 P M.-Half cup of hot
skim milk and bed"
The Fat Wc7nan's Conscience
Then we pass to the prize of the
class, Miss Leonard, who weighs 323
pounds. She confesses just chow
it feels to be fat Listen to Miss
Leonard:
"About everybody in the world
has a notion of how it feels to be
fat. But they're all wrong - all
| once read an article in a
where a lady said that the
comedy of fat is in the eye Of the
beholder and the tragedy Of fat
is in the heart of the possessor.
But being fat is not tragedy, it's
an exhibition.
'The only place where being fat
hurts is your conscience-and that
hurts because you've got everybody
in the world worrying about you.
| see some poor, thin lady sitting IN
the streetcar, and she looks as if
she had troubles enough of her own.
But the minute she sees me
can see by the look in her eyes that
she's worrying about my heart or
my liver.
"This is no age to be fat. Every
body is too sophisticated. They
read doctors columns in the papers
and medical journals. And when
they see a fat person they begin
to worry about that fat persons $
thyroid gland or kidneys, and wheth-
er the person is anamic or Pile
thoric. The first thing they do is
to try to scrape an acquaintance
with the fat person, so they can
quote Shakespeare, or that one from
Balzac about Monsieur Adipose lies
in wait to suffocate symmetry
81 even had a guy once that sent
me medical journal with the ar
ticle by Dr. Dearborn called Get
Fat and Die
An Anti-Fat Library
81 could fill whole wall with gift
books | have on the subject Of grow
ing thin. Well, | don't like to have
the whole world worrying about ME.
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