The Saint Paul globe., 1902-03-21
ARE MEN THE REAL FAsTERs.

AT this Lenten season, when the fair
penltent prepares to mortify and melt
the flesh made too. too solid by long de-
Votion to the rites Of high living. ii is.
perhaps pertinent TO consider the nature
ana proportions Of her seif-sacrifice. It
is assumed that If she does not fast she
will at least abstain-not necessarily from
flesh meat, but from various little gratih-
cations of the palate more or less con-
nected with the confectioner's industry
IT she does not forego chops and birds
she Will certainly eschew caramels and
shun the cup that cheers OF an afternoon
along with It's modern accomplishments.
But we Will suppose that she really
fasts in the orthodox Leuten meaning
Of the word, taking Uut enc rull meal on
fast days and sustaining life chiefly on
light collations. yet with, oh, what an
appetite on Sunday
What, then? Why the chances are that
her friends. who never in all their lives.
unless very sick in bed. missed the GUS
tomary three meals day will look upon
her as little less. than a martyr. Then
the family physician will be consulted
and there will be grave shakngs of tho
head as TO her physical condition Is
she not the victim OF religious euthusi-
asm? is she not trihing with her health?
And man-where does he come in2 Man.
the mere brute. Does he ever fast be
ne luIeF OF DfedU-WllneFE w nat Il QueS-
ton, to be sure? Who does not know
his ways? Has not tradition asserted the
direct route TO his heart is through his
stomach? Feed the brute!' eujOins the
mother Of the young wife who asks for
domestic advice. And the general laugh
ter that greets the answer shows how
the popular mind has long been made mp
on the subject Of the most characteristic
masculine falling
And VET and 1-pt Iaqr. vauuo IlI,r Yv74t
we not be doing men an injustice: Is AZ
Unsuitable appetite the invariable ana pr,
cullar property of his SEX OF womau'{
represSed development we have heard
thing or two. Sometimes il gets into
print that through the ages size has been
fOrcibly detained in the background: thai
her Easter hat would be larger Within n
not withOut-had the natural cerebral ez.
pansion been permitted There ara
women who. TO prove this, cut off their
| hair and wear hats at Easter evidently
| not modelled with reference TO adornmcul
| alone. Could self-sacrihce to an idea
go further?
And man. May he not have his griCv-
! ance, too? Pursued from boyhoOd with
| pies, coddled into old age with cakes.
| coaXed ard nattered with the cffeminate
! products of the kitchen, buIdOzed with
| puddngs, his higher moral nature put to
sleep with seductive pastry-mdy we not
! Inquire whether bis SuppusitiOuS cravings
FOR these things is not founded on pure
ly feminine conception? Who is il but
man who, when unrestrained and follow
ing his natural promprings, turns TO to
bacco-next to food the most effectual de-
strOyer of hunger?
Who, in fact. are the real fasters both
in practice and in theory?
Why, men.
In DR.. Tanner the sex has perhaps it's
most illustious example Of its own true
promptngs. Outside the records OF
pathology, did you ever hear OF a fe-
! male faster on this scale? Who is the
most conspicuous advocate Of the two
! meals a day tdea? Mark Twain. What
was the sex of the student a Phillips
| Andover who tasted whole week be
| cause 1t seemed good thing to DO? Not
| female
| A Chicago enthusiast for a long time
lived on nothing but deep inspirations
| of air and q few apples. Needless 70
remark, he wore trousers. Still another
Western man Is widely known as tins
author Of a book in which he insists that
one meal a day the year around is am
pie for anybody, he himself joyfuHv
adheriHg to the practice. And there is
the Rev John j. Eberle. OF PittstOwn
Pa. recently deceased, who since 100 has
followed a similar plan to his own sat
isfaction.-New York Herald