Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1879 — Fat Men and Thin Men. [ARTICLE]

Fat Men and Thin Men.

Two clubs have been recently started, both under one roof, in the Frankfurter Strasse, Berlin, one of which has received the name of “ The Fat Club,” while the other rejoices in the no less significant title of “ The Thin Club.” In the club house common to both societies there has been constructed two test doorways—the one generously wide, the other thriftily narrow. To these doorways the candidates for election, respectively, obese or attenuated, are ceremoniously conducted, after they have registered a vow to abide uncomplainingly by the result of the orde»l awaiting them. Should the would-be member of the Fat Club be found capable of passing witli ease through the wide doorway his disqualification is thereby proved beyond repeal. His rejection is politely signified to him, with the merciful intimation that when he shall have waxed somewhat fatter he will be permitted to “try again.” The text applied to the exiguous candidate is exactly the converse of that to which fat aspirants are subjected. If he cannot slip through the doorway constituting the fatitudinal standard of membership he is informed that until he reduce his exorbitant dimensions to the prescribed limit he must resign all hope of being received into the emaciated bosom of the “Thin Club.”