he thin folks
are negotiating lemonades and phosphates, while a creamy frappe is
rapidly disappearing from the fat man's glass.

The Deep Mystery

"What do you suppose is making me so plump?" naively inquires the fat
man when it finally occurs to him--as it did to his friends long
before--that he is surely and speedily taking on flesh.

If you don't know the answer, look at the table of any fat person in any
restaurant, cafe or dining room. He is eating with as much enthusiasm as
if he had just been rescued from a forty-day fast, instead of having
only a few hours before looked an equally generous meal in the eye and
put it all under his belt. The next time you are at an American plan
hotel where meals are restricted to certain hours note how the fat
people are always the first ones into the dining room when the doors are
opened!

Fat-Making Foods

Butter, olive oil, cream, pastry and starches are foods that increase
your weight just as fast as you eat them, if your assimilative system is
anything like it should be. Though he is the last man in the world who
ought to indulge in them the fat man likes these foods above all others
and when compelled to have a meal without them feels as though he hadn't
eaten at all.

Why They Don't Lose Weight

We had a friend who decided to reduce. But in spite of the fact that
she lived on salads almost exclusively for a week she kept right on
gaining. We thought she had been surreptitiously treating herself to
lunches between meals until some one noticed the dressing with which she
drowned her lettuce: pure olive oil--a cupful at a sitting--"because,"
she said "I must have something tasty to camouflage the stuff."

An Experiment

Once in California, where no city block is complete without its
cafeteria, we took a committee from one of our Human Analysis classes to
six of these big establishments one noontime. To illustrate to them the
authenticity of the facts we have stated above we prophesied what the
fat ones would select for their meals.

Without exception their trays came by heaped with pies, cake, cream,
starchy vegetables and meat, just as we predicted.

A Short Life But a Merry One

According to the statistics of the United States Life Insurance
Companies fat people die younger than others. And the Insurance
Companies ought to know, for upon knowing instead of guessing what it is
that takes us off, depends the whole life insurance business. That they