YOUR VERY GOOD WEIGHT

Shannon News, 13 August 1929, Page 4

YOUR VERY GOOD WEIGHT

The weight is a' mater of deepest import in these dark days of bodily affliction on every hand. Like everything else, it’s a little difficult. If you’re fat and getting fatter, rocks ahead. If you’re plump, but losing your plumpness, have a care. If you're slim, disaster lurks in that schoolgirl outline. In short there is no possible variation without its dismal portent, and though there is admittedly a happy medium somewhere, nobody knows exactly what it is. In the circumstances one doesn’t know whether to be grateful or reproachful toward those enterprising merchants who 'place weighing machines in their doorways. The weighing machine these days is like a motor car or a petrol pump—rail glitter and a little hard to resist. More especially is this the case now that one type of machine offers a printed card bearing the date and the -weight. In the future portly citizens with “bay windows” will bp able to gaze rover/ eiitly. at these records of mounting obesity. All very sad, but in the meantime it is of interest to note on the back that a man’s average winter clothing weighs 91b., while a woman can manage comfortably with 51b: No wonder Mawson restricted his Antarctic adventure'to men. They are so hardy!