Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-03-02
NEARLY DIED ON A MILK DIET.
And His Landiady Made Profit of Six
Cents on Each Quart

anu HID A<1uuidQ1 MAUI kIOut Oh Glx
Cents ON Each Quart.
"When do you 90 to bed?" DIR. L. Dun.
can Buckley. the noted specialist, inquired
of his patient.
'About 8 A. NJ"
"When do you get up?'
"About noon"
"When do you eat breakfast"
about l P. M
"And dinner"
Anywhere from $50 to 80
and supperY'
"About $50 A. NJ"
what do you eat for supper"
Ham and eggs, or bacon and eggs OF
beef and beans, or lobster salad, or Welsh
or whatever happens to strike my fancy.
Sometimes sup at Delmonicos, sometimes
at Sandy Spencer's, sometimes at Delmon.
leo Hitchcock's, and sometimes at the club
Poor fellow, no wonder you are ILL
But we'll try to bring you around all
right. Well begin by recommending a
milk diet"
"But, doctor, milk doesn't agree with
me-"
How do you know ?"
"Pve tried it."
"How did you try it?'
With crackers, or oatmeal, or zwie.
bach, or something of that sort"
"Of course it didn't agree with you
You couldn't expect it to do so under such
circumstances. Now, besides being your
doctor I'll be your friend, and tell YOU
what do. Pll convince you that / take
my own Notwithstanding doctors are
seldom guilty of. | drink quart of milk
every night before going to bed, drink it as
would so much water 1t is all the food
need between dinner and breakfast, and
find that my mind is clearer and that
l am able to do more and better work
ON it than on any other food But /
am careful not to let so much as a
crumb of bread pass my lips while en-
joying milk supper. The smallest par
ticle would spoil the entire effect. Milk
taken alone in this way will agree with
almost any one. Go home and order your
milkman to leave quart every morning.
Don't drink it too cold"
He lived at boarding house and trusted
the landlady implicitly. She ordered the
milk and he nearly burst himself trying to
drink quart at sitting. 1t came in a
fruit-jar marked This bottle must be
washed and returned" After a ten-days'
struggle he succeeded in becoming SO much
of calf that he could put quart where
it would do the most good without personal
inconvenience or discomfort Then he be-
gan to grow fat. He patronized the penny
in-a-slot weighing machine every day with
mutual satisfaction to himself and the pro-
prietor And the name of L. Duncan
Buckley was blessed.
But by and by the milk lost its creamy
richness and he began to fall off. Its
anti-fat properties were such that he was
soon reduced to point where he was
ashamed to weigh himself in public. He
had awful dreams about being lost in a
chalk mine and drowned under a stable
pump. His groans kept the household in
state of frenzy and alarm. He began to
believe he should die.
One night he was taken so bad that a
neighboring doctor was called in. Being
a sensible and practical man, this doctor
began an investigation Of The milk bust
ness which resulted in the following start
ling developments: The landlady's weekly
bill for milk for the patient was 70 cents
10 cents quart. She had supplied
pure milk for few weeks after which her
purchases were made of cheap John
around the corner who manufactured an
article that he sold for four cents a quart,
thus enabling the dear old soul to make a
neat profit of six cents on each bottle.
The patients life was saved.-N. Y.
Tribune.