Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1907 — Overworked Scales. [ARTICLE]

Overworked Scales.

•This is the time of year when the family grocer’s platform scales are made to work overtime by the returning vacationists. Thin women want to see how much “they have gained” and stout women how much they have succeeded in “losing” by their summer’s holiday. And this is also the time of year when the scalemaker’s ears must tingle at the kind and unkind things said of his wares. The things a stout woman will say about a poor, defenseless set of scales would spoil the temper of the steel in the balance if it wasn’t so indifferent to such things. And the manner in which a fat woman will deceive herself about the difference in her weight, with heavy clothes on to protect herself against tfaa eol4 as a mountain resort, and the lighter ones she dons when she strikes the heat of the city, is one of the constantly recurring evidences of the eternal feminine vanity. —Chicago Inter Oceau.