THE UKKUON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND,- WEDNESDAY; APKIL S8, 1SZ0.
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CHICAGO FAT MEN
AND WOMEN STAG
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REDUCING CONTEST
By Alexander F. Jones '
United Stm SUff Comapondent. !
Chicago, April 28. Miss Nellie
Leonard, ehampion fat eirl, lost two
full pounds today, thereby arousing
the enry of every other fat woman
entered in the great Chicago "we
will get thin" contest..
More than 400 fat women have now
entered the various public health con
tests which are the year's sensation In
Chicago. Nearly 60 fat men are making
equally strenuous efforts to shed ex
cels weight. Every gymnasium in the
city resounds with the puffs and un-
weights with one eye on the scales and
the other on pictures of Venus de Mllo
and Adonis.
WILL TELL rEUTU
Tuesday a "we will get fat" contest
was started under the direction of Dr.
Jchn Dill Robertson, with Chicago news
papers assisting in the movement. Every
skinny man and woman in the city Is
urged to come and learn how to put
layer or two of real flesh on their
ribs.
"When we get through. Chicago peo
ple are going to be In uniformly ajotfd
condition," said Dr. Robertson. "Some
of us are on the point of dropping dead
from too much fat. Others are in equal
danger from emaciation. We will get
them all."
The most startling development of the
day was the agreement between 300 fat
women mat there was to be no more
camouflage about "when la a woman
fal ?"
When the contests started the con
testants deprecated their double chins,
refused to tell ages, would not allow
their pictures to appear in the news
papers and acted like women who "know
they are little plump, but fat my
word, nor
HELLIE STaftTS MOTEMKST
Miss Nellie Leonard, weighing 32S at
twilight, stripped this attitude of its
pretense as follows:
"We fat women bave no more privacy
than a goldfish, anyway," she said.
"Why should we try to hide behind a
corset? We cannot get away with it.
Let's be honest and start right. I am
fat as a pig and so are lots of sugar
eating women.. I weigh 328 pounds. If
a woman weighs ISO and should weigh
XI 0 she is as bad off as I am. Half
the women in America are flabby from
too much pastry and too little exercise,
or are too skinny from eating pickle
lunches and taking no exercise. Let's
get together and go from here.
This appeal won the women of Chi
cago to the movement.
CEOWD THE OfTDOOES
Physical condition Is now the chief
topic of discussion In Chicago women's
clubs. Thousands of business girls are
walking to work. Lincoln park is filled
afternoons and evenings with fat men
and women striding along at marathon
Speed.
There are now nearly 600 city gardens
under cultivation by the reducing en
thusiasts of both sexes clad in overalls
And every minute of the day Dr. Rob
ertson is Issuing Instructions from his
office on diets, exercise, the harmfulnees
Of corsets and tight Bhoes.
Three newspapers have engaged ex
perts to conduct classes and there has
been an unprecedented rush for enroll
ment in gymnasium classes.
Miss Leonard, who lost two pounds
today, tonight was given more atten
tlon by her achievement than the slices
taken oil Turkey by the allied powers
at San Remo. She Is heroine of the
ever-increasing double-chin battalion,
SHE'S PASTRY FIEJTD
"Everybody In the world has a notion
what it feela like to be fat," Miss Leon
ard told 32 anxious reporters. "But
everyone who is not fat is wrong In
tl.elr notions.
Some rat woman said that twe com
e'Jy of fat is in the eye of the beholder
and the tragedy in the heart of the pos
sessor,' but being fat is more than i
secret tragedy it is a public and dls
graceful exhibition. That Is why I am
dragging my poundage before the public.
I am a horrible example of the candy
eating, pastry gulping fiend. Beware of
my fate as you would of drugs.
GIVES DEMONSTRATION
"This is no age tp be fat. Kverybody
ORD INTERESTS
TO REINCORPORATE
FDR SI .0 0. 00
r
Youngstown, 0.,
Population Gain
Reported 53,292
Detroit, April 28. (I. K. S.)
Ford automobile and tractor Inter
ests will be combined and reincor
porated as a $100,000,000 Delaware
corporation, It was Indicated today
aa the result of papers submitted :
to the secretary of state.
New corporate powers of the company.
according to these papers, will permit
it to engage in the manufacture of air
craft, Internal combustion locomotives
and all manner of vehicles used In
transportation.
The reason for incorporating under
Delaware, are laws, it is said, that Or
ganization of a company with more than
$50,000,000 capital stock is not permitted
in Michigan.
It is believed that the capital stock of
the new company will not be opened to
public sale, but that it will be held by
the incorporators of the Henry Ford &
Son corporation.
Washington, April 28. (I. N. S.) Pre
liminary population figures were an
nounced today by the census bureau as
follows:
Sprfncflcld. Mast.. 1120 po potation, lzt.SSs:
inetewTainee 110, 40,412, of) 48.4 per cent.
Yotrasitowa, Ohio, 1 920 population 112, SAB ;
inereua in 1S10. 63,292, or 6T.4 per sent.
Portsmouth. Ohio, 1920 population. 18,011:
increaa. once 1910, SSSO, or 40.6 per cent
Elmira, N. T., 1920 population. 48.838; in
ereua since 1919, 8128, or 21.9 per eent.
Kslamateo, Uich., 1920 popnlatioa, 48.838;
ineresM sine 1910, 8421, w 23.8 pf cent
RusMllTiHe. ark., 1920 population. 2269; is
eraaae etaee 1910, $21. or 10.9 per cent.
TowBlejr. Ala., 920 popaUdm, lav
eieafte Mnee 1910, 1 S 1 9, or 6.S1.S per cent.
Wiecina, Kim.. 1920 population, 1087; tr
ereaaa sines 1910, 57, or 8.8 per cent
Gardner, Main, 1620 population. 10,890: la
Clean eiDoe 1S10. 2261, or IS. per eeM.
Niaava Kalla. N. T.. 1920 population. 80.
760; iaereaae ainot 1910, 20,815, or 66.7 per
cent-
Fttchbart. Maaa., 1920 population. 41,018;
increase since 1910, 8187. or 8.4 per cent.
Brakeman Fractures Arms
Falling from an engine tender at Ore
gon City, Lyman McCarthy, 25, brake
man for the Southern Pacific, suffered
fractures of his nose and both arms
early this morning. McCarthy resides at
420 Williams avenue.
EXIT MISS VAMPIRE,
M MISS FLAPPER
PRIMED FOR R MAN
E
(Br Fatted New.)
New York. April 28. Take your last,
lingering look at the vampire lady with
her black satin gowns and black, fur
trimmed millinery, because she's going
away, for a long, long journey and may
never come back.
Then slick, your hair and fix your tie,
for the millinery chamber of commerce
Is waiting to Introduce the boys to Lit
tle Miss Flapper, young, pretty and sum
mery, who Is to be America's girl for
some time to eome.
The flapper was Introduced as Amer
ica's new love, during an exhibition held
by the millinery chamber of commerce
today. Bhe will wear Tery tight pinky
pink things called wile and organdie,
with hats to match in color and 'ight
ness. While the new type smiles, in
contrast to the vampire lady who al
ways seemed to be thinking of her sad
past, it is understood that she won't
simper. The new styles are intended
to make old girls younger nd young
girls Just the right "age for summer
romance.
The idea of this exhibit is to divide
the year Into four style periods and
discourage the manufacture ot - for
trimmed satin hats and gowns In sum- ,
mer and light gowns and straw hats In
February. j;.-v;vJ
The 80.000 members of the millinery '
chamber of commerce are said to have '
pieogea inemseives to snow nets ana
gowns always in combination and to
try to sell them the same way, on the
theory that harmony is hard to achieve
if the hat be bought in one shop and
the gown in another. y- t
Six varieties of seaweed are used by
the Japanese in the manufacture of vege
table Isinglass.
Dr. Ilinson Is Speaker
Oregon Agricultural College, Corvallis,
April 28. Dr. W. B. Hinson of Port
land spoke at the college convocation
today. Music was furnished by the ool
lege Mandolin club and by members of
the faculty-student minstrel cast.
is too sophisticated. Kveryhody reads
the doctors' columns in the papers, and
when they see a fat person they begin
to worry about his or her thyroid gland
and kidneys."
Whereupon the lady showed the audi
ence how a fat woman should roll on
the floor to flatten the padded curves.
"Watch me, boys," she said triumph
antly. "This Is hard on the chandeliers
downstairs but I am out to help Chicago,
az well as mystelf. In 60 days poor
Lillian Russell."
I III " i i
C. H. Baker C. H. Baker
The Largest Retainer off Shoes West off Chicago
Month End
Ihoe
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placed! on sale (Friday Last Bay) 30
Hies of.eew sunnier styles., Boots,
flips
i
A U807--A summer model
In sofft white kid, with
light turn sole and cov
ered LXV heel.
$0.85
D605-B2ack calfskin
walking oxford made
with welt sole and Seath
er military heel.
10
.85
m
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A 5S49-Tan calfskin,
English Bast model. Low
broad heel. .Single sole.
4659Broad toe comfort
shoe in fine black vici
kid. Here is a wonderful
no
.85
$8
.85
Men! Reduced' prices are
stores. 20 complete lies
at the
380 Washington Street
308 Washington Street
270 Washington Street
270 Morrison Street
Portland
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Mathis
for Quality
one
d
Value
H s
m
Men's
Clothes
$30
$40
Pajamas De Luxe
You men who admire quality
in your sleeping garments the
finest weaves, attractive patterns,
good tailoring with plenty of full
ness will like our showing for
spring.
The highest grade silks, mulls,
soisette, fibres, percales and woven
madras, made doubly attractive by
their reasonable pricing
$3.50 to $15
Men with an understand
ing of good value and good
style and who appreciate
the high standard of service
that is built into the clothes
we sell, will have served
themselves well when they
come here to buy.
Mathis Clothes ' rightly
priced in the beginning
admit of no reductions. Quality,
style and moderate pricing
these are the strong points of our
extraordinary drawing power.
See our window display of
men 's and young men 's clothes at
to
$30
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Corbett Building
Fifth and Morrison