Fat

are approaching middle age take a deep and peculiar interest. Some people are "fat" even as boys and girls; but the majority are not so. When the man whose domestic register informs him that the age of thirty-five has certainly been passed, begins to notice an unmistakable tightening about the waistband, and an equally demonstrable prominence and rotundity below that level, he feels that the period of youth, with all its delights, all its careless freedom, and all its remoteness from old age, has at last gone. " Gone, gone, never more to