Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-28


 tus Has Permitted Him to Live at
 the waIdorf-Astoria I'm New York
 at a Dollar a Day-Has Been Forty
 Years Educating Tt-Lets Him Live
 on Twenty Cents at New Haven.
 A stomach at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York has brought confu- sion upon the lordly Oscar and thrown his walters into panic.
 The possessor of this remarkable or. gan is Horace Fletcher of New Haven, expert in chemical physiology and hu' man nutrition,1 says the New York World. Externally Professor Fletcher is rather thin in dignified academic way and totally barren of any physic- al sign of his unique possession. For the Fletcher stomach is unique. It not only knows what it wants, but can ask for it. While at home in New Haven the Fletcher stomach calls for 20 cents worth of food per day and feels no yearning for more. But at the Wall dorf-Astoria, in the abandon of hol1- day, the Fletcher stomach raised the limit to $1 day.
 The professor has occupied a three dollar room at the fashionable hostelry, and appetite, tempted by an elaborate cuisine, has had free rein. But beyond the one dollar mark the Fletcher stom- ach stubborn1y refused to be lured.
 "I eat just what my stomach asks for" said Professor Fletcher the other day. "It tells me precisely what to order. and obey"
 When the professor has breakfasted at the Waldorf the autocratic stomach has said to him:
 Oatmeal for me this morning, with a dash of cream. Not bite more."
 Luncheon passed unnoticed by the professors abstemious digestive ap- paratus For dinner the Fletcher stom- ach has whispered to the professor:
 ''Mr. Old Boy, for banquet-a gas tronomic debauch-order me a club sandwich, with plenty of gravy. Let 'em serve a cup of chocolate on the side"
 Oatmeal and cream costs 35 cents at the Waldorf Astoria. A club sandwich is rated at 40 cents, and chocolate is valued at 25 cents per cup. These de- tails account to the penny for the pro- fessor's lavish expenditure of a dollar per day. s...
 "I have all I want here," explained the professor, "and never average above $1 in table expenses per day. My stomach literally asks for what it wants.
 ''That may sound strange to you," he continued, "but, as a matter of fact, my stomach is in absolute control of my appetite. That is the secret of my theory, and have perfected the work ing principle by years of constant prac- tice My stomach tells me what to eat and my brain tells my stomach how much. The two influences have made my appetite and my desire one.
 "Now to explain this: The other morning my stomach said it needed certain nutritious substances contained in oatmeal and cream. The demand was as plain as if my stomach had said, Fletcher, this morning oatmeal and cream
 "Now, in an untrained state would | doubtless have gorged myself upon oat- meal and cream, but with my objective self upon the alert said, There is suf- | t1cient nutriment in one bowl of Wal | dorf-Astoria oatmeal and cream 'I never eat," continued Professor l Fletcher, until my stomach demands l 1t. Why, up at New Haven live com fortably on 20 cents per day. Some days eat as many as four meals and on others but one. It is just as my stomach determines for me. Here at the Waldorf have been extravagant | with guilty fush). I have had two big meals regularly each day-oatmeal | for breakfast and a club sandwich with chocolate for dinner. My knowI- edge of the exact requirements of the tissues led to the selection of these dishes.
 "For example, oatmeal is heat pro- | ducing. It's fat and proteid, blending with the cream, make an ideal morning l food. Tn the club sandwich we have a peculiarly we'll rounded dinner The toast, made of whole wheat bread, has ! special virtue; the lettuce supplies veg etable acid and certain valuable salts; the bacon provides all the properties of meat and of fat, while the cream dress ing, formula of my own, adds marked l degree of palatability.
 "But would not advise this diet for every one.'' he continued with delibera- $i;Szx "A III people are nof alike The