Historic Fat Women

From ancient, modiaeval and modern history the following' facts about fat women are gleaned. Agrippina, Nero's mother, was fat. Cleopatra, the serpent of the Nile, as Mare Anthony called her, was sraall and fat. Laura, Petrarch's muse, was fat, fair, wilh blond hair. The Marie Fiammetta, whom Boccaccio loved intensely, was a brunette and fat, with thick red hair. Marg-uerite of Navarre was fat. All Rubens' women, except his wif -, were fat. AU Titian's women, except the madonna, were fat Catherine of Russia was tall and fat. Louisa Strozzi, for whom Alexandre di Medici died, was rather stout. Josephine lieauharnais, the indolent Creóle, afterward empress of the French, was fat and perfumed; Mme. Roland also. The unfortunate Marie Antoinette was tall of stature, majestic and fat. Mme. de Stael, small, dark and fat, with a small head. Georges Sand had a beautiful head, but was fat and small. Helne said of her: "The build of her body has thn appearance of being a little too fat.or at least, a littta too short; the head alone bears the cachet of the ideal." Queen Isabella of Spain is fat; Queen Victoria the saine; Queen Margherita of Italy is certainly on the same way, and most of tbe great singers hare been noted for their embonpoint