surprise and much discussion on the part of newspapers, but not of the
scientists. The big question in treating this disease and its twin,
Pneumonia, is: will the heart hold out? Fat seriously handicaps the
heart.

The Fat Man's Ford Engine

The human heart weighs less than a pound but it is the one organ in
all our machinery that never takes a rest. It is the engine of the human
car, and what a faithful little motor too--like the Ford engine which it
so much resembles. If you live to be forty it chugs away forty years,
and if you stay here ninety it stretches it to ninety, without an
instant of vacation.

But it must be treated with consideration and the first consideration is
not to overwork it. A Ford engine is large enough for a Ford car, for
Fords are light weight. As long as you do not weigh too much your engine
will carry you up the hills and down the dales of life with good old
Ford efficiency and at a pretty good gait.

Making a Truck out of Your Ford

But when you take on fat you are doing to your engine what a Ford
driver would be doing to his if he loaded his car with brick or scrap
iron.

A Ford owner who intended to transport bricks the rest of his life could
get a big-cylinder engine and substitute it for the original but you
can't do that. This little four-cylinder affair is the only one you will
ever have and no amount of money, position or affection can buy you a
new one if you mistreat it. Like the Ford engine, it will stand for a
good many pounds of excess baggage and still do good work. But if you
load on too much and keep it there the day will come when its cylinders
begin to skip.

You may take it to the service station and pay the doctors to grind
the valves, fix your carbureter and put in some new spark plugs. These
may work pretty well as long as you are traveling the paved highway of
Perfect Health; you may keep up with the procession without noticing
anything particularly wrong.

But come to the hill of Pneumonia or Diabetes and you are very likely
not to make the grade.

Don't "Kill Your Engine"

The records in America show that thousands of men and women literally
"kill their engines" every year when they might have lived many years
longer.

How Each Finds Happiness

We live for happiness and each type finds its greatest happiness in
following those innate urges determined by the most highly-developed
system in its makeup.

The Alimentive's disposition, nature, c