PAGE. TWELVE SAANICH PENINSULA AND GULF ISLANDS REVIEW Wednesday, September 23, 1970 Speaking of fat. men, as we were recently, I should report that this is D-Day-Plus Six on the nine-day, ‘‘wonder diet’’ Iwas talked into and I crave to make a public apology: “want to beg forgiveness from every. plump woman. whose agonies of shedding weight have provided me with comic material for so many ‘years. I now perceive, ladies, that it’s very much a one-sided joke, just as you said ail along. Naturally, you’re going to wonder, right .here at. the GAT ape el ) OPEN 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. ‘Closed Sundays‘ - a Holidays Prices Effective Sept. 23, 24, 25, 26. beginning, how it is that a man with my svelte dimensions (40-30-. 40) could possibly néed to go ona diet. The answer is that for 27 years of my life I was built like a rake. In’ school they. called me “Skinny.”’ In the army I - was known. as ‘‘Slim.’’ Hard. to believe, but true. Then, when we’d made. the world safe for democracy and I began to compensate for the four years of hunger that I endured.in uniform, I started to burgeon. Soon, by the charts, I was normal. But all things | are Sigal SHAH ta SIE A om hoe MORAN Malaview ‘and -Resthaven . Drive CANADA CHOICE Reg. 1.39 Ib. CANADA CHOICE “Reg. 1.29 Ib. McColis PEANUT « wo ‘APPLES reg. 2 Ib. ah 49¢ j RUST'S JEWELLERS} GREEN | ‘peppers 2/194 “,:2" “BERRYLAND ee ay Boe tin. PUN MAGE FUE LMI Br Paes ICCTA As i a I a 1007, tin. | ASPARAGUS TIPS PECAN EP Ea fee gy Me alll relative. and everyone who'd known me with angles refused to let me rest easy with contours. My mother's reaction illustrates now cleanly my life has. been divided, in terms-of avoirdupois,.in two parts. For 27 years she'd > admonished me: ‘*You don't eat enough to keep a canary alive.”’ From then ’on she admonished me: ‘‘Stop making a pig of yourself.” Anyway, when my wife kept dropping hints about this nine- dav, high-protein diet I decided in the spirit of defiance to have a go at it. The fact that the diet promised a plethora of big, juicy steaks, steaming hamburger patties and sizzling lamb. chops helped make up my mind, of course. It looked, in fact, as if I might be eating better than ever. Had I given a little closer study to what wasn’t there I'd have come query. to my senses: Until "BABY GIFTS FROM Child’s cups ~~ pp | Z Bent Baby » ' Spoons 3-2 piece Baby ae - Sets : Rand many =~ more you've been six days without them, take it from me, you've no idea. how sentimental. you can become about bread or potatoes r apple pie or cream and sugar in your coffee. Right now 1 could write a sonnet about a banana split. As for grapefruit, Ul prohably never be able to look another in the face. My wife, knowing that I've the will-power of a cowardly tit- mouse, appointed herself as an armed guard to see that I kept to it. It's a-funny thing -about women's hearing. I can shout across the room at my wife to ask her about some. bill from a dress shop. She'll have trouble hearing me. But let the refridgerator door click quietly open and; though she may be miles away, she'll. be there and scornful of my claim that I'm: just. window-shopping. I can’t even take the dog for a walk up past the store without having to undergo.a breathalyzer test tosee if I'm impaired with O. Henry bars. This sort of thing § changes your whole outlook on & food, quite apart from what- it does to your waist-line. First thing in the morning, when you awaken, you’re aware of something strangely foreboding. You search your mind. >. Mes Is this the. .day, you've — the dentist appointment? No. Is: the finance. company due to take away all the furniture. No, that’s next week. Then, with con- sciousness, it comes to you. It is the half grapefruit and black coffee that awaits you that’s | qe begun everyt thing wrong. Life 8 appreciate the difference ts The Best i in ‘Service for. Your. Car. eet are Trust to us. for reli. able | service: “at all —— THE JACK SCOTT COLUMN —— seems hardly worth getting up fixing something in a wine sauce that would totally wipe out every > TT nine-day gain. Gluttony, too, faces vou on all The phone keeps ringing with sides. You pick up a magazine. people you haven't heard from in and there are ten thousand full- years, inviting you to Italian or color pictures © of forbidden French restaurants that you've goodies, never been able to afford before. You turn on the television and Before you know. it, Raquel there is the Galloping Gourmet Welch means ‘nothing to. you. 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