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 specialist’s 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.”