Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1908 — Fat Men and Jobs. [ARTICLE]

Fat Men and Jobs.

Employment agents say it’s about as ’ hard to get work for a fat man as fori a gray-haired one. According to their { statements, employers of labor holdi that a fat man is indolent. They assert that tbe hustler, the fast, nervous,. energetic worker, is sinewy rather ’ than fat, and does 30 per cent, more j work than the soft, fat fellow. "It is > not uncommon for us to advise fat ap- 1 pllcants to diet,” said an employment agent, "and reduce their weight before beginning to canvass for a job.” So far as recorded, Dr. Osier has expressed no opinion on the expediency of chloroforming men who are running to adipose tissue.