Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-25
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said. IF I had not seen food all around me
in the bakers shops in the restaurants,
in the butchers and in the green grocers.
l would walk about the streets for hours
watching the people go into the restau-
rants for lunch and wondering what they
were going to eat.
BY the end of the third day I was in a
half-comatose state. Practically. I had
lost my identity and my memory. / was
always thinking about food, but in quite
detached sort of way, as If 1t were moth
ing to do with me. I thought of 1t as an
untraVeled man 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 1t seemed asAif
l should always be eating one tiny loaf 4
day and watching other people go into res
taurantS.
ION the fifth day I was utterly cowed
If man spoke to me trembled and could
not answer, but skunk away. Every bit of
moral fiber and every ounce of physical
pluck were gone"
After this experience the graduate in the
school of starvation took keen interest In
discovering the sensations of other men
VINO 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 emotions alike.
Starvation" he was fond of saying, 'is
mental rather than physical pain. Its
principal terrors are connected with the
mind and the imagination. The educated
and refined man, he who has seen better
goes short of food. The sufferings of
starving man are really a matter of tenn
permanent If he has not a highly-strung
temperament, he does not suffer much.
The more animal man is the more COM
fortably he can starve. Some laborers who
nearly died of exposure and lack of food
have told me that they hardly suffered at
all. They soon drifted into a semi-con
scfous state. which dulled their physical
pain, and they had not sufficient intelli-
gence to substitute the pangs of the i'm
agination."
Mental Powers Increased.
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 coun-
try of central Australia.
II am sure he said that I felt the
pangs of hunger much less keenly than
my black crackers and servants did. I
had heard they could go for long periods
without food, but the second day we put
ourselves on short commons they COM
planned bitterly and appeared to be in ex-
IRENE pain At that time I suffered moth
ing, nor did suffer until some days after
ward. Indeed, although two or three of
my men were almost dead from lack of
food by the time we reached the nearest
settlement I really suffered very little The
only unpleasant sensations l can recall
were occasional bad headaches, slight pains
in the stomach and now and then feeling
of faintness At other times l felt excep-
tionally strong, although 1 had eaten hard
ly scrap of food for days.
eff 1 were to judge by my own feelings,
should say that the agonies of starva-
ton are much exaggerated. But the suffer-
ings of my men were terrible enough. 1
asked one of them how he felt when he
1yip ground evening
| weak to move.
Boss he replied, me full of devils
clawin' at me inside.
| IT gave the poor wretch little brandy,
but he declared it made him feel worse.
IT did not find that hunger In any way
affected my mental powers. On the con-
trary it seemed to improve them. L was
able to take the keenest interest in my
scientific work. Possibly the fact that l
had something to occupy my mind saved
me from suffering as the others did. They,
poor wretches had nothing to do but to
think of food. I believe that was why they
suffered so keenly."
Kipling's Experience at Starving.
Rudyard Kipling has experienced that
form of starvation which is most common
in great centers of population-living for
weeks and months at time on an insult
fcient amount of food. He has admitted
that he tried it for the sake of experience,
and in 1.-THE Light That Failed he has de-
scribed his feelings.
"It is not easy" says Mr.. Kipling 'for
a man of catholic tastes and healthy ap-
petites to exist for twenty-fo days on
fifty shillings. Nor is it cheering to begin
the experiment alone in all the loneliness
of London.
.sDick paid seven shillings week for his
lodging, which left him rather less than
shilling a day for food and drink. Half
DAYS Investigation and comparison brought
him to the conclusion that sausages ana
mashed potatoes, twopence plate, were
the best food. Now, sausages once or twice
a week for breakfast are not unpleasant
AS lunch, even with mashed potatoes, they
become monotonous. AS dinner they are
impertinent. At the end OF three Gays
Dick loathed sausages, and going torth'
paWned his watch to revel on Sleeps head.
which is not as cheap as it looks, owing
to the bones and the gravy. Then ne re-
Then he confined himself entirely to mash
ed potatoes for a day, and was unhappy
because of pain in his inside Ihen ne
pawned his waistcoat and his tie, anu
thought regretfully OF money thrown away
in times past.
.There are few things more edifying unto
art than the actual belly-pinch of hunger,
and Dick. in his few walks aoroad-ne ., a,t
not care for exercise; it raised desires that
could not be satisfied-found himself dlvid-
ing mankind into two classes-those VINO
looked as If they might give him something
to eat, and those who looked otherwise.
human face he thought: and, as a reward
for his humility, Providence caused cab
driver at sausage shop where DICK FED
that night to leave half eaten great chunk
of bread. Dick took it-would have fought
all the world for its possession-and 1t
"The month dragged through at last, and.
nearly prancing with Impotence, he went
to draw his money"
Women and Starvation.
Women who have been on the verge of
starvation will not speak about 1t.
One woman who had been without food
for over week was asked: How did you
feel?'
do not speak of it," she replied. 'It
was horrible. I will never talk about it,
Another, in reply to a similar question,
said:
1T don't remember. I think must have
been mad"