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CONFESSIONS OF A FAT SPORTSMAN.—I am growing heavier and fat cc tan I wish to be (my ordinary weight, a few years ago, was fifteen stone, and I am now increased to nineteen). The exercise I take does not prevent it at all. I should not quite like to be put on a regimen of abstinence, but sport some system which, with moderate living, might gradually bring me back to about my old standard. All this time I am quite well, and should have little to complain of, were I not fond of sports which I pursued with greater convenience when I was thinner, and did I not observe that persons inclined to increase in size lose their activity rather too soon in life—Comments on Corpulency, Lineaments of Leanness, Memo, and Marinas on Diet and Dietetics. (A little volume of gossip, something between Dr. Eitehiner and Joe Miller, by Mr. Wadd, the eminent and facetious surgeon.) USEFUL EisomsnmeN.—I have discovered, in the Chronicles of Cromwell's time, that the combustible materials is man were turned to good account in those days; and that a woman who kept a tallow-chandler's shop in Dublin, made all her best candles from the fat of Englishmen; and when one of tier customers complained of their not being so good as usual, she apologized by saying, " Why, ma'am, I am sorry to inform you, that, for this tumid' past, I have been short of Englishaten."—Comments on Corpulency. Witivir is WHOLESOME P—Perhaps the most pertinent answer, after all, was that given by the celebrated Dr. Mandeville to the Earl of Macclesfield. " Doctor, is this wholesome ?"—" Does your lordship like it ?"—" Yes.''— " Does it agree with your lordship ?"—" Yes."—" Why then, it is wholesome."—Comments on Corpulency.
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