Eat and Grow Thin (1914)

wabmester

You can download this for free on Google Play:
https://books.google.com/books?id=S0YQYvGpleAC&dq=inauthor:"Vance Thompson"&pg=PP12#v=onepage&q&f=false

mandycat223

Here's an irony: In 1914, only the well to do tended to be fat. Working folks burned off all those potatoes following a plow, hauling coal, working a steam engine. It's pretty much the reverse these days, with low income and obesity tracking together.

suesuarez

"To the scientist there is nothing so tragic on earth as the sight of a fat man eating a potato."

Or to the low-carber

Twibbly

suesuarez wrote: »

"To the scientist there is nothing so tragic on earth as the sight of a fat man eating a potato."

Or to the low-carber

I think most of us end up becoming minor scientists in our own right, just trying to figure out how things work and what does and what doesn't.

RalfLott

Bump.

mandycat223

It's interesting how the definitions of "attractive" change. If you look at photographs of Lillian Russell, THE dream girl of the 1890's, you have to guess that stage floors were concrete reinforced at the time. Lillian and a herd of Floradora Girls must have totaled a ton and a half.