Full Girths and Merry Hearts.

There are people who insist that heavy eating kills us quicker; being still alive I am no authority. True, King Henry the Eighth and Samuel Pepys are dead. That may prove something. On the other hand, Adolf Hitler eats sparingly and he is still alive. That may prove something, too.

I hesitate to add another plan to the already complicated task of saving the world, but what about fatter feeds, merrier meals, cheerier chewing?

After all, Nature expended a good deal of trouble and ingenuity in fitting us up for the task, and it seems ungrateful to spurn her suggestion with “Good-bye to all that!”

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