Show A BIG BIO SHRINKAGE THE following from the boston alobe globe refers without doubt to a well known gentleman of this city who took a trip to the east with a friend whose aver dupois was not much different to his own he was former formen formerly y in business not a hundred miles from frond first south street but has lately sold out and retired gentine is largely A it matter of babij none nona of us need more than half the food we eat the speaker was a gentleman from salt lake city now visiting professional frienda in boston the interviewer lust just from the table where he had dined tco too heartily perhaps felt the force of the remark more just at that time than he would at most moat uny other no vve no desire to be interviewed I 1 dont care caro to be presented to the public as a monstrosity st but I 1 have been remarkably in decreasing the amount of my flesh which had become a burden to me something after the banting system or cr did you take any of the anti antl fats remedies BO common I 1 discounted disco banting following a much more rigid course you see gaid eaid the gentleman with a self satisfactory satia satie factory chuckle it came about this thil way iam lam I 1 am only five feet leet seven inches high with bones as small Ls those of a woman and two years ago acro I 1 measured nifty fifty eight inches about thew tho the waist alst aist twenty four inches round the nek nok 11 Gra gracious cious clous what a collar inter ejected the interviewer well it a neck exactly my head set in a chunk of fat on my shoulders about all there was to my neck seek one night after having surveyed myself in the mirror and thinking what an un gainly piece of flesh I 1 was 1 I went to bed and had a dream that I 1 was sought bought for by a circus man who had been successful in ID exhibiting curlo curio curiosities mies in a sideshow side show the next day I 1 thought more about it and determined ter mined to get rid of some of the pounds of flesh I 1 had just as hard solid flesh as your ever saw food assimilated with my system nicely you see and I 1 ate enough for two men at a meal I 1 beian began at once two meals a day eight in the morning and four in the tha afternoon vernoon af ter ier noon what did I 1 eat beefsteak principally six to eight ounces at a meal with two ounces of bread toasted hard no thing else olse except an occasional change to mutton but no legeta ble blea no pork no veal s and for drinks no water except in gips felps fleshy persona persons always are tempted to drink large quantities of water now nom let themsie them sip their water and it will soon become insipid no pun pus intended and will quench their thirst jus just taswell as well weil I 1 usually drank acup a cup cud of tea ten without milk or bugar sugar you grow prow hungry at first Ig hungry well I 1 had always dined with dives on the best I 1 could get and looked forward to my dinner cs as the great delight of the day now I 1 was dining with laz arus yes 3 I 1 buffered suffered a good deal from hunger hung er at the outset a hack at the swill barrel would have bren been n luxury you hee heb beb heb P ce I 1 began by trying my diet at the family table right at the midst of temptation but I 1 soon had to give that up my wife weighed my meals every day and served them to me in a separate room I 1 ate what was bet set before me was bet set before me mes and had bad to bo be content hungry well ive uve seen been the tho time during my diet ing that I 1 would have robbed the support osa of a man with a wife and fourteen children to get a square equate meal what encouragement did you get weil wells I 1 weighed myself every morning and ands now here no one can successfully diet to reduce flesh unless he weighs himself regularly when I 1 began to c see soe bee eee ee that I 1 was re dicing at the rate of one one and a half hall two and some days as high as four pounds a day I 1 felt encouraged and persisted the first month I 1 lost twenty two pounds and to in a few months more I 1 was so reduced that I 1 could walk a mila mile or ride on horseback that did me good ayou you smoked some pome during the time yes fifteen or twenty cigars a day smoking seem to be yes fifteen or twenty cigars a day smoking seem to be injurious to me I 1 had to do some thing to keep my nerves soothed 31 do you still keep up your rigid system of diet d weil weli well while I 1 am here hero in the east eash I 1 am eating as much in a day as I 1 ought to in a week but the moment I 1 see I 1 am gaining flesh I 1 start in again with the weights and measures 11 how much flesh have you lost since you began two years agoa ago 11 1 I weighed at the start now I 1 weigh 1 I have reduced the waist measurement from nifty fifty eight to forty inches and I 1 wear an eighteen and one half inch collar where I 1 used to wear a twenty four inch I 1 feel ever so much better I 1 can get around easily and take some comfort there ia nothing like it accosting to insurance tables a man miln of my height and build should weigh about pounds I 1 presume I 1 could diet down to nearly that but I 1 am satisfied |