The Corpulent Bourbons

Whre does tíie Ducd'Orleans get his fat? From the Spanish and Neapolitan Bourbons, of whom he is nnquestionably a descendant, even though Louis Philippe were a Chiappini. I cannot think of any Freuch Bourbons, except Louis XVI, his eister Clotilde and Philippe Egalite's father and the Comte de Chambord and his sister, whowere very fat. The two latter were, hovrever, descended froin the Neapolitaa and Spanish Bourbons. Obesity has been an oft recurring malady of the Spanish royal family ever since Elizabeth Farnese ruarried Philip V. She was the heiress of the fattest Italian that probably ever lived. He was a prince for a Barnum show whose legs had to be propped up by buckram and whalebone cases to prevent them overlapping his feet. Fatty degeneration impaired the usefulness of Charles III of Spain and destroyed the activity cf the late Queen Christina, graudmother of the Cointesse de Paris. Queen Isabolla strongly inherits the family failing. The Comtesse de Paris makes a brave fight against the hereditary diathesis by Bantingizing at Marien bad and on the Aubergne moors, where she tires out all her ers.-