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Show "NOBODY LOVES A FAT MAN.' If all men were fat the divorce court would soo.. go out of bus- iness Fat men love their homes. Fat men make the best fathers. M Criminals weighing more than 200 pounds are very few. Any man H who is good will necessarily add flesh. This eloquent defense of the m fat man, long the subject of the popular saying, "Nobody loves a fat man," is from the lips of W. D. Quimby, president of the New England Fat Men's club. At a meeting of the club officers held re- centy in Boston, he advocated the purchase of a tract of land in Massachusetts to be made into a fat man's paradise. I Golf links swimming pools, baseball grounds, tennis courts and shady groves and hammocks are a few of the features of the pro- ( posed paradise. In the course of the dinner which preceded the . meeting President Quimby sprung his defense of the fat man "If you consult the criminal records," he said, "you will find that crime decreases in men in proportion with the number of pounds I they weigh. I venture to make the statement that there are no crim- I mals weighing more than 200 pounds. All this has a reason. Corpu lency is the result of good and honest disposition.. Any man who is right minded and good will necessarily add flesh." There is come comfort in the New Englander's remarks to the western heavyweights, vho feel the way the sheriff in "The Round Up" expressed himself after losing out in his love affair. Quimby evidently does not believe there is good in all men. He might have said that the criminally disposed fat man is too lazy to follow his bent of mind. In purpose there is little or no difference between the fat man and the thin man. |