All that, however, belongs to the past.

Just so soon as Mr.Thompson had worked out a system of dieting and by personal application had proved its success he wrote the volume Eat and Grow Thin, embodying therein his experiences, his course of treatment and his advice to former fellow sufferers.

So you see in saying now what I mean to say I do but follow in the mouth-prints of the famous.
Besides, when I got fat I capitalized my fatness in the printed word.

I told how it felt to be fat.
I described how natural it was for a fat man to feel like the Grand Canyon before dinner and like the Royal Gorge afterwards.
I told how, if he wedged himself into a telephone booth and said, "64 Broad," persons overhearing him were not sure whether he was asking Central for a number or telling a tailor what his waist measurements were.
I told how deeply it distressed him as he walked along, larding the earth as he passed, to hear bystanders making ribald comments about the inadvisability of trying to move bank vaults through the streets in the daytime.

And now that, after fifteen years of fatness, I am getting thin again--glory be!--wherein, I ask, is the impropriety in furnishing the particulars for publication; the more especially since my own tale, I fondly trust, may make helpful telling for some of my fellow creatures?
When you can offer a boon to humanity and at the same time be paid for it the dual advantage is not to be decried..