The daily times., 1921-12-10

of those small persons. l mean by
that. to get your growth, and realize
that you will never by the laws or
nature grow any more. and then hnu
that YOU stand only slight bit more
than five feet in your high heels. Ihe
bumilia ton of it was brought upon
me when | came upon my two small
n;eces one day in heated argument.
The first niece explained that the sec
ond child was asserting that l was
dwarf Naturally. l denied with
warmth that l could be classed as a
dwarf. Whereupon the first niece trl-
umphantly said, Il told her so! |
said you just hadn't got your full
growth yeti" And then the lncon-
yenience of it comes when the king
is passing by, and I'm in the crowd
trying to catch a glimpse OF hlm
Somebody is sure to thrust them
selves in my way, always I'm on the
bottom When 1 try to get clothes,
grown-up folks clothes, they are all
too LONG. Folks will be arguing, and
I'll be as interested in the argument,
and have my views, too. But is sure
as speak up and express my opin-
ion, somebody looks away down at
me with a Neutrality-suspicious.
it look Oh, it's inconvenient!
always was little. Even when l
was a baby l was smaller than other
babies-healthy, but small. 1t wasn't
SO bad, then, for I'd go tOddling
about, mite of humanity, and folks
would say, What a cute little baby!
But when I was grown, and put on
grown folks clothes, and did grown
folks work, longed to be six feet
tall Yes, six feet and one inch.
treasured one consolation. I weighed
enough. l was not tall, but 1 was
plump enough. Nobody ever called
me exactly skinny, until one hot,
hot summer. That was the hottest
summer! l began to lose weight! l
wasn't i'll, but 1 got thin and thinner.
I'd go down street in the morning and
somebody would say. How thin
you're getting! You're the least per-
son ever saw" I'd consult the scales
and I'd find / was losing weight
Somebody suggested that l was
drinking too much coffee. 1 denied
myself my little cup Of coffee in the
mornings and forsook all tea. I soon
found out that that wasn't the
trouble, for without coffee l was
still getting thin. Maybe l wasn't
eating enough. l began eating. Any
time during the day that 1 felt the
slightest suggestiveness of hunger.
I'd pop into a lunch room and eat a
piece of nourishing pie. Whenever
could summon the inclination I'd take
chocolate milk. l would eat a cho-
colate bar, I would MUNICH a piece Of
chocolate cake. 1 kept a box of cho-
colate bonbons always at hand and
Hibbled a bonbon whenever 1 could
get up the courage. Chocolate is so
fattening, you know! In addition to
this extra eating, 1 consumed three
hearty meals each day. The subject of
eating got to be a mania with me.
I'd spend all odd moments thinking
up new things to eat and seeking out
fattening food that failed to fatten
For by actual measurement 1 lost five
pounds during this siege of eating.
! realized at last after a helpful
hint from a friend, that / was eat
ing too much; that / must take as
little food as possible I observed for
time most frugal diet, painfully
frugal diet. l went through the dis
comfort of eating less than nothing
a scant breakfast, a scant lunch and
a scant dinner 1t took only a few
days for me to lose pound, and
promptly 1 forsook this program
Somebody said needed a vacation
Anything to keep me out of the shad-
owland into which I was about to
take my place. 1 took vacation.
About this time the scales had put
me down to 100 pounds, and 1 didn' t
have the courage to consult the scales
again, l could with some shred of
dignity assert that I weighed 100, but
to save my life 1 couldn't look the
\world in the face and admit I weigh
ed SO pounds. So l quit the weighing
business. But know l kept on losing
MY clothes hung on me in disorderly
Fashion, but I went out vacationing.
This vacation business helped not a
whit. After the rest I came back to
work, and my friends greeted me
with "ohs' and "ahs" and "how i'll
and thin you do look! 1 do believe
you've lost ten pounds!"
At last l got sensitive about the
matter. I'd forestall my acauaintances