THE SUPPRESSION OF FAT MEN.
From Our Oivn Corresnondent.
London, June 22,

The days when it was appropriate to nick-name a certain Royal personage “ Tum-Tui.i ” are no more. Under the fostering care of the great anti-obesity expert, Dr Towers - Smith, H.E.H.’s waist lias become nearly, that is to say, almost, slim. “ Labby,” too, who threatened at one time to grow positively tubby, has likewise recently put off much solid flesh. “Tay Pay,” gossiping on this phenomenon in the Weekly Sun, says:—Among the many peculiarities of that strange and unique character —of whom, probably, the memoir writers of the future will write more than of any man of our time not a great minister—l mean Labby—among his peculiarities is an inordinate love of medi cine—an almost insane desire to reduce his weight to shadowy and transparent limits. When first I knew Labby in the House of Commons he threatened to have an old age of rotundity that would have made him resemble a Pasha in his de clining years. But Labby took to Banting;, has gone nearly every year to a German or Austrian watercure, swearing all the time that they are absolutely inefficacious ; and has added to the rigid teetotalism he has practised throughout his life very severe rules as to dietary. The result is that he is now a very thin man.
August 24, 1894.
NEW ZEALAND MAIL.
