The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-28


Face to Face
I DO not mean to say that never have taken a
Il look at my face because after all am not alto
the most part these looks nave been more less in
the line OF duty touching upon and appertaining to
such problems the matinal shave
And on some of these occasions the result has not
been completely happy. I recall one morning, which
by some curious freak had heightened into twilight
l think it was the day following the Steam Filters
Grand Ball-when 1 took informal look at my
face and
Well what do you think? There was looking
Straght-reasonaby straight anyway-into the eyes
OF my old friend Lon CLANCY Who for some silly
reason was made up Toro the Sacred Bull.
Howe trix old KIDD" asked.
Generally super-plus in affability, Mr. CLANCY
fused to talk in whispers. 1 could see his lips
move, but no words tumbng through his teeth.
There was something about him that reminded
, of Old Man Bill Williams the sports writer except
that he had a double chin and looked at bit moth
eaten around the edges.
Since then 1 have not dallied too long in front of
the mirror I suppose it is true that I have gotten
fat never thought it made great deal of differ
ence before whether you % in the waist SO.
But apparently it does. If it doesn't to you it does
to people who know me. And why should it?
Just what and where is the virtue in leanness?
Even in fiction of the lifeguardS who come out
of the with frail blond things clingng to manly
but matty chests cut along generous lines-lines
that sing rousing duet in buoyancy and beef.
Myths in Notices
NoBODY loves fat man" the brain child
' of office sloganeer. All slogans are de-
signed more for parrots than people. Most of them
are reared fantasy rather than fact. The nation
thanked God for Wilson, and few months later
George M. Cohan had written The Yanks Are
Coming
There a time when I did want to be good
track man and good ball player. But that
years ago. Now I have practically no heroic ambi-
tons. I do not to fight Camera for the heavy
weight championship though the necessity of physical
task Nor have any urge to swim the Hudson from
Albany to the Battery So why should be disturbed
if 1 start carrying weight for age?"
Once did go to the gymnasium under the care
OF Professor Arthur McGOvern, and it all seemed a
great waste of time This before the crash In
the professors class were number of Wall Street
hnanciers-aS 1 believe they then were called. Just
the other day one of them committed suicide in the
Orient refuse to believe he would be any less dead
at the moment if he had neglected the symmetrical
outlines of his stature
Still, there one feature about the professors
course that always appealed to This consisted
of placing an iron saucer firmly upon the stomach
drawn in and at given signal releasing same the
effect being to send the iron saucer tumbling high
in the air. The idea seemed to be to see which pupil
could reach the highest altitude 1t was great sport
and because of the keen competitive element seemed
to have sanity about
There seems to be an evil notion that men become
gritty out of Incidence and eXcesSes and hence they
no longer fit companions for their piouS brethren
This of course is mean vicious point of view and
has anything at all to do with inertia.
The Time to Worry
ON the contrary, think it is just the other way
~ around Most of the know who are lean
and fanky spend much of their time on the golf
links riding to hounds and angling specked trout
That hardly comes under the head of stern appli-
cation to duty. Personally. think it's swell stuff
But if you don't happen to have the time
1 think 1t was the late Walter Camp who first
belittled the billowy front of man. He nnovated
daily dozen" suppose they did lot of good but
it must have been a selfish unromantc sort of good
Certainly standing in front of open window
Breathing deeply twenty times is not comparable in
the social graceS to playing a round of roodles at
dawn or ordering brandy
suspect, too, the snooty indictment of the heavy
set is OF modern origin. There many passages in
the Old Testament clarifying the grth 1t was
y FalStaH who "larded the lean earth as he walked
along" And Mr.. Shakespeare warned against the
lean and hungry look Or was it Mr. Tunney?
AT any rate always have been told that if you
don't get fat behind the ears you need not worry
Possibly the time has come when I should start
worrying real hard. Nevertheless, I'm not going to
surrender to bleak despair until find my front collar
button no longer fits.
Copyright. 1884 Tmes)