How to Grow Thin (1922)

The story is that of Heza Gobbler and his wife Ima Gobbler Both were of normal size in their more youthful days but a few years after they have settled down the extra fat has settled down on them so heavily that when they receive an invitation to a banquet neither can get Into the glad rags which have laid unused in their trunks for several years When Mrs Eaton Growthin who was bridesmaid at their wedding calls Mrs Ima Gobbler is moved to envy by her slender graceful figure Mrs Gobbler is introduced to a specialist by her more slender friend and in a few minutes receives his brief outline of the simple home method which she is to follow to lose weight She follows the easy method for five months and when she returns to the specialists office his scales show that she has lost forty pounds An entertaining story and clever comedy have been combined In How to Grow Thin with a vital lesson to the great number of people who have a tendency to grow fat