The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-20

riOus parts of the world. He would be- hold Leadenhan market in London piled high with thousands of carcasses and
 tons of meat; and just as he put out his ! hand to grasp a leg of beef or sirloin | steak the vision would fade and in its I place would be the gayly cOlored mar
 ket of Panama, with bananas, pineap-
 pies and oranges. glistening brightly in
 the tropical sunlight. Those. too, would
 vanish. when he tried to snatch them:
 and he would awake hungrier and more
 miserable than ever.
 T could have borne the real horrors Of the days thousand times better" ne said, if it had not been for the tan7 1 tali2ing miseries of the nights
 This same explorer, during the month Of semi-starvation which he eXperienc- | ed, suffered constantly from violent
 headaches, dull gnawing pains in the stomach and bad attacks of malarial
 fever. And all the time he could think
 of nothing but food, which increased his l misery tenfOld
 | A graduate of Oxford university gave up all his prospects in life some years
 ago to become a social worker among | the poor of the East End of London. In l order to get an idea Of what it felt like to be really poor he lived for six days
 on twelve cents, eating nothing more than one tiny two-cent loaf each day. l AS a result he nearly starved and was | i'll for week afterward.
 Tt would not have been very trying" he said, If I had not seen food all
 around me-in the bakers shops, in the | restaurants, in the butchers and in the l green-grocers'. would walk about the | streets for hours, watching the people | go into the restaurants for lunch and wondering what they were all going to | eat.
 By the end of the third day was in a half comatOse state. Practically,
 had lost my identity and my memory. T was always thinking about food, ! but in quite detached sort of way, as l if it were nothing to do with me. ] thought of it as an untraveled man l might think of India.
 My reason told me that in three ! days I could eat as much as liked, but my mind could not take hold of that | fact. It seemed as if I should always | be eating one tiny loaf a day and | watching other people go into restau- rants.
 "On the fifth day I was utterly cowed | and if a man spoke to me I trembled ! and could not answer, but slunk away. ! Every bit of moral fiber and every 1 ounce of physical pluck was gone" After this experience the graduate in l the school of starvation took keen in- ] terest in discovering the sensations of
 other men who had gone hungry. He
 met many of them in the course of his
 philanthropic work and he discovered
 that in no two cases were their emo
 tions alike.
 i Starvation" he was fond of saying,
 "is mental rather than a physical
 pain. Its principal terrors are con- | nected with the mind and the imagina- , ton.
 "The educated and refined man, he
 who has seen better days, is the man
 who suffers most when he goes short of
 food. The sufferngs of a starving man
 are really a matter of temperament. If ] he has not highly strung temperament
 he does not suffer much.
 | "The more animal man is the more 1 comfortably he can starve. Some la
 borers who nearly died of exposure and
 lack of food have told me that they l hardly suffered at all. They soon drift 1 ed into semi-conscious state, which
 dulled their physical pain, and they
 had not sufficient intelligence to sub-
 stitute the bangs of the imagination"
 A direct negative to this theory is
 given by a professor of an Australian
 university who narrowly escaped dying | of starvation during an expedition into
 the desert country of Central Aus 1 tralia. F'{, T am sure" he said, that felt the 1 bangs of hunger much less keenly than l my black trackers and servants did. I had heard they could go for long peri 1 ods without food, but the second day 1 we put ourselves on short commons 1 they complained bitterly and appeared l to be in extreme pain.
 ] At that time I suffered nothing, nor
 did I suffer until some days afterward.