Mr.Blythe is the present international bant-weight champion.

There was a time, though, when he was what the world is pleased to call over-sized.

In writing on several occasions, and always entertainingly and helpfully, upon the subject of the methods employed by him to reduce himself to his current proportions I hold that he had the right idea about it.
Getting fat is a fault; except when caused by the disease known as obesity, it is a bad habit.

Getting thin and at the same time retaining one's health is a virtue.

Never does the reductionist feel quite so virtuous as when for the first time, perhaps in decades, he can stand straight up and look straight down and behold the tips of his toes.