Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1918 — Fat Beauties. [ARTICLE]

Fat Beauties.

Throughout the empire of Morocco and In Tunis there are villages where the elder members of the adult population follow professionally the pursuit of fattening young ladles for the matrimonial market oY Barbary. The Moors, like the Turks and most other Orientals, give a decided preference to “moon-faced” wives over lean ones, and are more solicitous as to the number of pounds which their brides weigh than about the stock of accomplishments they possess. A girl is put under the process of fattening when she Is about twelve years of age. Her hands are tied behind her and she Is seated on a carpet during so many hours every day, while her “papa” stands over her with a stick, and her mother, at times, pops Into her mouth a ball of stiff maize porridge, kneaded lip with grease and just large enough to be swallowed without the patient choking. If the unfortunate girl declines to be stuffed she Is compelled by torture, and gulps down the boluses, lest she should be beaten. ,