The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-03-16

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enjoying their dinner"
HE'S NOT A CRANK.
J Il am not crank, and I do not seek
notoriety," said the feed merchant
! whose transactions at No. 453 Fourth
avenue, Manhattan, run UP to six hun.
dred thousand dollara a year. my OBJ
Ject IN entering upon my present fast
now in its thirty second day. is to de-
monstrate to others that without harm
we can dispense with food till nature as
serts itself, and many Of the ills that
trouble people can be cured by the pro-
cess. When man can't eat, or has in
digestion, or Is discordant, physically,
instead of stopping his food he rushes
for his family physician and doses so
he can continue to eat. don't think
we need physicians very much. At any
rate there are many troubles that can
be cured by abstention from food.
MY first fast of twenty eight days
early in 1899, was undertaken to reduce
my weight, and ] did reduce it from
| two hundred and ten to one hundred
and sixty eight pounds, and felt better
in every way for it.
| But scientific men said half the value
of my fast TO science was lost through
my failure to keep a careful diary of
| my symptoms They spoke So regret
fully about it tha. / decided to fast
again and to keep careful record,
which shall make public at the close
| of the fast
when will that be-" the reporter
asked
when I'm hungry. I thought I
would probably fast about thirty-f five
days, but it may be much longer
though if I was hungry ] certainly
should have partaken of that Delicious
turkey. | always carve, and delight in
| it. 1t does not excite any appetite in
me. If it did I'd eat.
I'VE live on our tissues when we
don't eat. You know we are 80 per
cent. tissue, and our surplus Is largely.
OH the intestines.
You see," said Mr. Rathbun. clutch
ing at little roll that stretched from
side to side under his vest; you see |
have quite snug little bunch of tissue
left to live on yet.
1T isn't so much question of weight
reduction from now on. It's case OF
waiting for an appetite. | weighed two
hundred and seven pounds January q.
I'm down to one hundred and sixty-six
now, and III probably get down to one
hundred and fifty-five or SO before I
get hungry. My temperature has never
been less than ninety-seven and fve-
eighths nor more than ninety-eight and
one-half. My pulse has been strong and
normal, and all the nourishment I have
taken since January q have got out
Of one and one-halrf pints to two quarts
a day Of hot water or Highland Spring
water cold
FAMILY OF DIETERS.
Dieting is nothing new with us. My
family consists of Mrs Rathbun and
myself and our two sons, twenty-five
and twenty-one years old, respectively,
now in Boston. We haven't rad
breakfast In this house in five years, ex-
cept to guests My wife had suffered
for twenty years with catarrh and in
Digestion
And + was just dragging about,
white skeleton, put in Mrs. Rathbun,
as she Joined her husband among his
books In a well selected library. my
last breakfast was June ID, 1895. In
two weeks | began to.pick up and was
quite well of both troubles In month.
soon became as you see uncertainty
not white skeleton" and the hostess
pinched her plump shoulders laughing
ly.
when and what is your first meal |
after arising?' the visitor asked.
eve eat when we are hungry" re- |
sponded Mr.. Rathbun. when nature |
says 'eat'-eat. If I was ravenously I
hungry in the middle Of the night I'd |
get UP and eats My best meal is at
midday AT about 80 / take some
body out to the Park Avenue or the
Ashland House for lunch and generally |
pay one dollar to one dollar and quar-
ter for my lunch. That's my first meal.
[ take an hour or more to meal. /
never eat alone, I like plain substan-
tails. | sleep seven and a half to nine
hours each night; no nerves; seldom
drink anything, and rarely smoke,
though / used, years ago, to be a very
hard smoker 1 am fifty-fve years old,
but l don't feel over thirty, and when
I'm with my boys / feel as young as
they. Since my fast began my eyes
nave grown stronger. But my calf
which measured seventeen inches, is
still fourteen and one-half inches, and,
according to the rule in the Irish fam
ne, any one with bunch on the back
If the leg was not yet starved--I am
good for several more days without
God.
II firmly beieye DIR. Dewey's theory
hat the brain Is the center of the sys- /
EN-, the dynamo of the body, and that
f allowed to work unhampered it will ;
work. cure Of most evils, but that it
must be given as much rest as possible ,
rom the work of disposing of food.
Phe food supplies the tissues, the It's
ues supply the brain. Stop eating and
he brain gets its supply as long as the 9
issues hold out, and is relieved of the I.
YORK of disposing of the food. I have
proved 1t; am proving it. l am per-
APPS little weakened, but not much,
nd go to the city and do nine hours =
york at my Office every week day. l :
eel perfectly we'll and In splendid
pirits, while my heart, which was a !.
title out of killer before the fast, is :
luch better.
Il have received more than one hun
red interesting letters during this fast,
lainly from physicians, inquiling about e
ny progress, asking for special points :.
r telling me the results of their own or :,
Their mems experiments in abstention
'om food.
"One eminent ROstOn physician tells | L