Evening star., 1932-06-29
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEFELL.

a big way this Summer and this
friend OF Jones got one.
"I happened to be talking with q
portly friend" went on Jones, and I
said to him, Let's get us one OF those
suits You must remember, said he
to me, that neither one Of US has that
Young mans figure Jones figure is
nothing to boast about, just between US.
The fat man ought to receive an ex-
ira vote OF pity in hot weather, not be-
cause he is fat, but because his clothes
fit him so tightly.
It is the tightness that hurts.
Especially around the waist
No one who has not been burdened
(truly that with few inches of ex-
cess fat larded over the abdomen can
have any idea of the misery they cause.
One feels exactly as If he had a pill
low stuffed In between himself and his
belt.
Something that doesn't exactly be-
long to him.
Thin people-they would have been
called skinny" in the so-called Vic
torian age-never have the proper
amount of sympathy with fat folk.
"Oh. you could get rid Of that, II
you walssed to-"
What they don't know Is that fat
over the stomach is the very last fatty
tissue to leave, no matter how stern a
reducing program one co-operates with
ones self in inflicting on the physical
being.
Surely such a program is a cooper
alton with ones self! Let those who
have never tried it keep still, and say
nothing. for this is something they will
know nothing about until they try it.
The older one grows the more
amazed he becomes at the vast number
of people who are willing TO talk loud
and long about matters concerning
which they really know nothing.
They think they do, that is all.
Give US the man who knows what he
is talking about, really and truly, from
his own experience, and we will listen
until the cows come home, even II we
do not agree with him.
But these fine fellows who talk out
of theory, who insist on rushing in
where angels might fear to tread, just
to hear the sounds of their own voices,
well, they make most Of us rather tired,
do they not?
You can't theorize about excess fat
you have to try to get rid of it before
you can talk about it honestly, and with
some real knowledge of the matter.
What the theorists never know, and
won't believe, is that you can wave your
arms and legs until you are blue in the
face, that you can do calisthenics, and
bending exercises" and setting up
exercises, and lying down exercises. for
weeks on end and in rows, without
once touching those extra-fat layers
which incumber the abdominal regions
There they are and there they stay,
resisting all efforts to dislodge them.
Starvation works well, until evening,
when lack of food makes one have a
very hearty appetite for supper The
old dinner gong watts pleasantly on the
fat ear.
The fat mans trousers have no drape,
because the draping point is out of all
proportion, and takes up material which
should be going into length.
Fortunate was Nero and the rest of
the fat Romans, who wore clothes made
on model far removed from this day
and age
If Rome's obese fiddler wore a belt, it
doesn't show in the pictures.
And that belt!
1t is the belt which takes the JOY out
OF the life of the fat man.
And all fat fellows insist on wearing
belts.
Why they do is another mystery.
The next time we see Templeton
Jones we are going to ask him about
that.