Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-30

with from six to eight hours sound sleep. The
dry toast or rusk may have tablespoonful Of
spirit 70 soften ii, which viii prove acceptable.
Perhaps did not wholly escape starchy OF
milk, sugar, beer, butter, &C., which were
known to contain them.
A MORNING DRAuaHr.
"On rising in the morning ! take .. table
spoonful Of . special corrective cordial in Q
wine glass Of water-s most grateful draught,
as it seems to carry away all the dregs left in
the stomach after digestion; then take about
i've 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 please. / am not,
however, strictly limited to any quantity at
either meal, so that the nature Of the food is
rigidly adhered to.
milk for breakfast or 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 q
fruit tart or bread and milk for supper. had
little comfort and far less Sleep"
By following this system in one year Banting
lost As pounds and reduced his waist l21f
inches. His health was so greatly improved
that he had lost even the yelling OF coca
sionel faintness," which annoyed him after he
had fully entered upon the cure.
Ihat occasional faintness." Howwel In after
years came to know it when fell victim to
that disposition to corpulence which Inherited
from both parents. 1t was natural that should
nrst turn to Bantings book to guide me back
into the lost path Of leanness. Carefully fol-
lowed his dietary card for two weeks, keeping
constantly outdoors and on foot.
A TWO WEEKS TRIAL.
lost fourteen pounds in weight in that time,
but was then obliged to take to my bed and
call in a doctor. 1 was suffering from weak
ness and arrangement Of the digestive organs.
Moreover, had strange, pimply eruption
over the body, caused the doctor said, by inn
poverishment of blood, owing to lack Of nutri-
tious food.
Banting expressly says: II do not recon-
mend every corpulent man to rush headlong
into such a change of dlet-(certainly mott
but to act advisedly and after full consultation
with physician"
crushed headlong" into the change Of diet
without consulting q physician and suffered
accordingly. At the same time know the
bantlng cure is not lasting unless the diet ID
continued: My fourteen pounds which had
starved of me so painfully fairly galloped back
At the f1rst square meal 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 wrinked. as in age, and,
most serious drawback of all for the gentler
sex. the face becomes positively haggard and
gaunt. The Aabby 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 frightened and the eyes bulge out as their
bed of flesh is withdrawn. To sum up. the
Banting corpulence cure improves the figure,
but spoils the face by giving it that ''lean and
hungry" look which Cassius wore
CELIA LOGAN.