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Now, by this time I was just drooling.-but %. yielded not,
to temptation, I k(?pt this up for about ten days. In all that
time I had eaten clear tomato soup when I craved cream of chick
en soup, I munched lettuce loaves and celery stalks when every
thing in me cried out for candy bars and-*’cake, I drank skim
milk and juice when my dusty tonsils were.screqming for Coca-
colase
Vi/hen I next weighed I was rewarded xvith the loss of four
pounds, I went down the street, my heart singing a joyous song,
my head in the clouds, I felt that this was, indeed-, a wonder
ful world in \vhich to live, I didn’t know that around the next corner I was to meet
my "Waterloo", It happened this v;ays
I met a friend (how cmel our friends can bel) I hadn't'seen in several weeks,
"Ooh, hovi/ vroll you look this norning',' she oohed, "Thank you, my dear" sez I, expect
antly, "I do believe you've gained a little, though", said she (the worm)
With those cruel words reverberating in the crisp morning air, she marched on
down the street, unmindful of the fact that she had brouf-ht my bright little world
crashing down around me in a heap. ,
I picked my humbled pride up out of the gutter, dusted it off, and, vowed by all
that was holy that I'd show that so-and-so a few things. I'd lose enough weigjit to
make it show or ray najne isn't Edith Mildred Mauney Richards.
Dear Boys:
Since we had time on our hands and a blank mind, we had to resort this month to
our own personal experiences and let you in on our great handicaps and grief, Howe\-;r,
• fter what I v/ent through with, I decided I had no desire what ever to .be "just right"
in my weight. So my advice to you and everyone is to let well enough alone. Enjoy
life so long as its nothing more than a few pounds one way or the other,-.^^^^^TV!^
fretting you,' If you don't know exactly your blood count, what your
heart beat is, or why it beats at all, or just what your correct ^ J
weight should be, ignore it, for in my case "it pays to be ignorant,
Now you've read Ediths woes and troubles, and we all know that no'.i
two people are alike and v;hats one man's meat is another man's poison
something to that effect. Anyway'ivhile Edith is trying to lose it along
the wayside, I»m trying to get it, A few weeks ago I was struck down witfTthe feeling
that I needed a doctors few sympathetic words and maybe a few of his pills and soothing
syrup (I'd saved up a few dolJLars) .so I sauntered doiivn to the doctors office. After
he discovered I had no appendix, no tonsils, no corns or ingrowing too nails and not
too many teeth, he put me on the . scales and told me I v;as. underwei^t and should wei^
so and so, I told him that I had never weighed that much in my life, and then began
thinking I was born too little and had never grptm up (many may vouch for that) I v;as
not only underweight, I was nervous and*run down, ‘So vdth a sinking heart and.weaker
but no wiser feeling, I groped my feeble way outa the doc's office,
I ran into Edith Richards for the first thing and .after n good iook at her I was
certain that I was too thin or smething ghastly was wrong with one of us. So then
and there I made my solemn‘vow to eat what the doctor told me. only more, of it and see
if I couldn't regain my lost or unattained womanhood.
For days I drank milk -,vhcn my inner being was call.ing for coffee or cokes, I ate
raw eggs 'til all the hound dogs, up our way would turn'their heads when I'd pass them,
A skinny neighbor told me I was losing my figure, "Yes, but look what I'm gaining", I
taXd her. She looked but failed to get it, anyivayshe had no furthe,r ooijunents, I al
ways loved vef.etable salads, Icttuce and such^ but was told that lettuce.was for the
other types. So I tried to cat my way through rich crejimcd potatoes, gravies, pastries,
icc, cream and such, but always there loomed before my eyes’just thethings I should frovjn
upon, but after a heavy meal of the things I should cat I felt like I'd croak if I ever
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