Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-31

bier of grog (gin, whisky or brandy, with
out sugar1 or a glass or two Of eiaret or
sherry
'This plan leads to an excellent nights
rest, with from six to eight hours sound
sleep. The dry toast, or rusk may have
tablespoonful of spirit to soften 1T, which
will prove acceptable. Perhaps Ibid not
wholly escape starchy or saccharine matter;
but scrupulously avoided milk, sugar, beer,
butter, etc., which were known to contain
them. On rising in the morning take q
tablespoonful of special corrective cordial,
which may be called the Balm of Life, In
wineglass. of water-amost grateful draught,
as it seems to carry away all the dregs left
in the stomach after digestion; then take
about five or six ounces solid and eight
liquid for breakfast; eight ounces of solid
and eight of liquid for dinner; three ounces
of solid and eight liquid for tea; four
ounces of solid and six Of liquid for supper
and the grog afterward, if 1 please. L am
not, however, strictly limited to any guam
tity at either meal, so that the nature of
the food is rigidly adhered to.
He Was a Great Bread Eater.
"My former dietary table was bread and
milk for breakfast, or a pint of tea with
plenty of milk and sugar and buttered toast,
meat, beer, much bread (of which was
always very .fond) and pastry for dinner; the
meal of tea similar to that of breakfast, and
generally a fruit tart or bread and milk for
supper. I had little comfort and far less
Sleep"
By following Harvey's system in one year
Banting lost 46 pounds and reduced his
waist 121I inches. His health was so greatly
improved that he had lost even the feeling
of occasional faintness" which annoyed
him after he had fully entered upon the cure.
That occasional faintness." How well
in after years came to know it. when
fell victim to that disposition to corpu-
1ence which inherited from both parents.
1t was natural that L should first turn to
Banting's book to guide me back into the
lost path of leanness. Carefully followed
his dietary card for two weeks, keeping
constantly outdoors and on foot. lost IA
pounds in weight in that time, but was then
obliged to take to my bed and call in doc
tor. 1 was suffering from weakness and de-
rangement of the digestive organs. More
over, had strange, pimply eruption over
the body, caused, the doctor said, by i'm
poverishment of the blood owing to lack of
nutritious food.
A Doctors Guidance Is Needed.
Banting expressly says: 81 do not rec
ommend every corpulent man to rush head
long into such change of diet-(certainly
not but to act advisedly and after full
consultation with physician
1 crushed headloug'' into the change of
diet without consulting physician and
suffered accordingly. AT the same time I
know the Banting cnre is not lasting unless
the diet is continued. My IA pounds which
1 had starved off me so painfully fairly gal
loped back at the first square meal Il took
upon recovery. ~
By the Banting system of reduction more
weakness is superinduced than by any other
within my knowledge. With the: loss of
flesh the hands become wrinkled assin age,
and most serious drawback of all for the
gentler sex, the face becomes positively
haggard and gaunt. The fabby cheeks drop
loosely down on the corrugated bag of flesh
which was once double chin. The nose
becomes blue and pinched, the skin on the
forehead gets stretched and tightened, and
the eyes bulge out as their bed of flesh is
withdrawn. To sum up, the Banting corpu-
lence cure improves the figure, but spoils
the face by giving it that clean and hungry"
look which Cassius wore. y
CELIA LOGAN