Show MOORISH ELECT BRIDES-ELECT ARE TREATED LIKE GEESE Transformation of Sylph Like Creatures Creatures Crea Crea- tures to Genuine Heavy The follo following is Isa a cheerful little account account account ac ac- ac- ac count of the way a Moorish maiden spends the sl at months before her wedding wedding wedding wed wed- ding The moment a a. Moorish maiden is engaged engaged engaged en en- en- en it is the bounden duty of her parents parents par par- par par- ants to fatten her up like a lamb for the sacrifice And this is where man Intervenes intervenes Inter inter- Intervenes venes to thwart the plans of nature The male is generally slim wiry sinewy all bone muscles and thew and he likes his mate to be as complete a contrast to himself himself himself him him- self as possible So she has to train for It It and to perSevere persevere per per- severe until she becomes a woman of four dimensions an unwieldy bolster of solid flesh wherein the soul Is entombed forever Every morning she takes the soft part of her wheaten bread read and rolls It into long round pieces about twice the length tnt of her little fing singer r and of the girth of her thumb After each meal she eats three or four of these gradually Increasing the dose At first while the spirit is willing and the flesh still weak she js allowed tp to t wash them down with t milk or green tea Later arg g 1 i on liquids a are tabooed Most girls s manage manage man man- age in time to put ut away fifty or sixty of W these e aids to obesity l every day a By the time t the wedding day comes e round ou the brides have wholly lost their slimness and after a few years they have Irretrievably irretrievably irre Irre- forfeited the female form divine di divine divine di- di vine and resemble le huge sacks of down One of those ladles having having- emigrated to Spain her friends there had to have a huge crescent hewn out of the dinner tg table t to rea accommodate dt Fa her In Morocco o tables s are not yet the fashion no more than knives and to forks ks |