THE CLUTTONS DECLINE

Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1927, Page 4

THE CLUTTONS DECLINE

Still another leading physician has l.i on reminding ns that we eat ton, smell ; Unit, in fact, we nil know that wo eat too lunch, and the meekness: with which tlie reproach is taken is a s'gn of the changed attitude towards I over-eat iiig. w hich is now interesting ( our students of manners. Time was, when strong voices would have been j mised against this reproach. Stout; gentlemen would have declared their l faith in heel' and beer. Mothers of j large families would have boasted of the vim quant ii ics of food they gloried! in s-ring detoured hv their families. V.'e should hav * been reminded of the j Nape'coiie inelegance alleging that armies marched on their stomachs, that Shakespeare’s Caesar would have men nV-tii him that were fat. There would have been pious assumptions that over-j eating had inure or less produced the dominance of our race. Hut to-day n -hody has a good word to say lor overeating. The habit is not even consul-1 ered funny. Even in our own times I lie glutton has been at worst an ami-; able sort of miscreant, and lie who ask-j od for second helpings generally was i approved by hostess and cook. Clut-i tony was once a joke, then it became a foolishness, next it was a matter of j bad manners. To-day it lias grown into a full-sized vice.- The London ” Evening Standard.”