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Show GOOD ' JOKE ON PORTLY MAN Weeks of Abstinence from the Pleasures Pleas-ures of the Table Proved Unnecessary. Un-necessary. Gaston Reeves, weighing in the neighborhood of three hundrd pounds, and the most famous feeder in New York, awoke one day with a stitch in his side. The stitch hurt and Reeves went to a doctor about it. The doctor examined, diagnosed, consulted and finally said there must be an operation, for, although there was nothing so very bad the matter, the trouble might develop and it was better to have the cause removed. "But," said the doctor, "before I can operate you must get rid of a lot of that flesh." "How?" asked Reeves. "Train it off," said the doctor. "You must do it if you do not want to shorten your life. There is no telling when you will have to he cut." Reeves went to Muldoon's, where the fare is plain and the work Is hard. He beat down his longing for fancy food, stuck sturdily to his task of getting get-ting rid of flesh, worked harder than he ever did in his life, didn't have a bit of fun, and was constantly tormented tor-mented with thoughts of the good things to eat he was missing. Finally, he had taken off 69 pounds. He went to the doctor. "Now," he said, "I have taken off 69 pounds of flesh after torments of the damned, but I am hard as nails, so go ahead with the operation, so I can begin to live again." Whereupon the doctor made another examination, told Mr. Reeves he had been mistaken and that an operation wasn't necessary after all. Saturday Evening Post. |