The Indianapolis journal., 1903-08-02
A TREMENDOUS APPETITE.
Leslie's Weekly:

LeSlle'S weekly
Stories which have been going the rounds
of the daily press concerning the CASTRO
nomic feats OF DR.. III. L. Bonner, OF Ma
rion, O., have savored so strongly OF Mum
chausen, the classic prevaricator, that We
have been loath TO believe them, but care
full inquiry into the case on our own part
has convinced us beyond a doubt that the
most amazing OF these reports are literally
true, and that in Dr. Bonner Ohio can boast
OF a man who can stow away more food
I'm his interior department at single sit
ting than any other man living. IL Is
strictly, though we can hardly say pain
fully true that DR.. Bonner has been known
to eat twenty-five pounds OF grapes, be-
tween meals of an afternoon, and thinks
no more of treating himself TO whole
bunch of bananas when he feels that way,
or incidentally making away with crate
of strawberries or a basket OF peaches,
than an ordinary person would think OF
the doctor really gets down TO business at
a regular meal his bill Of fare generally
runs about as follows: One fve-pound
steak smothered in onions. four dozen hard
boiled eggs, eigteen boiled potatoes. a quart
can of tomatoes, two or three pies and
from six to nine glasses OF milk 20 Ill in
the chinks. Often when the doctor comes
home late OF winter night after a. long,
hard drive, ne win take a few light re-
fres shments'' before retiring In che shape
OF a four-pound steak, hfty-six hard-boiled
eggs, three and one half pumpkin pies and
rect testimony OF a personal friend that
Dr. Bonner never had the nightmare 81 his
life This same friend tells Us OF chance
acquaintance Of the doctors who happened
TO meet him on the street one day about
noon and invited him into a restaurant TO
luncheon. The doctor suggested that IL had
better be a Dutch treat. but his new
friend objected 10 that and asked what he
would have. The doctor said that IL II was
''all the same" he would take hve-pound
steak smothered In mushrooms 20 begin
with and after that he wouldn't mind
having three dozen fried eggs. a can or
two OF tomatoes, a dozen cucumbers and
bill The acquaintance thought the doctor
was putting up blum, but he ordered two
fve-pound steaks. the eggs and the other
things on the list After the order was
served the friend engaged In conversation
with a gentleman passing by and turned his
back 10 the table. whereupon the doctor.
lust for a Joke. cleared on everything. so
that when his host was ready for his meal
there was nothing left but the toothpicks-
The hosts remarks on this occasion are
discreetly left 20 the imagination. II would
be wholly unjust 10 DR. Bonner 10 close
this account OF his extraordinary achieve
ments at the table without stating. In all
seriousness that he Is by no means a glut-
tom or a man who cares 10 pose as great
eater. on the contrary, he Is refined gen
tleman. a graduate Of Edinburgh College. Q
lover OF art and literature and q sucSessfui
and highly-respected physician Nature
seems 20 have endowed him with an eb-
normal capacity for food. and he only eats
what he Graves and what he needs. as 9TH
er men do. He is q well-proportioned man.
his weight being 20 pounds. and his age
sixty-three years.