Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-03-19
STARVATION DIETS
These Make Breakfast Foods Look Like
Luxury.


The hardest fare that six strong me,
and boy of 10 ever kept alive on was
the daily menu of the Windoyer's sur
VlFOfs, Who Were cast up on the Irish
coast near Kilsegg. They lived for six
teen days on stewed ropeyarn. without
q crumb of anything else 10 help digest
II, except water; and though il made
them i'll, they kept alive ON it, and did
NOT waste away very much, says Il
writer in Answers
The WindOver was a bark carrying
salt between Spain and the States, with
I an English crew, and she was dismissed
ana abandoned about Il thousand miles
out on the Atlantic. Three of the crew
were killed by falling masts, and two
/ others were washed overheard; but the
seven others took to the whaleboat and
set out for Britain. Being in too much
OF hurry, they took too little food, but
three large butts of water besides the
tank the boat already held The result
was they ate up their provisions in four
days. but had water enough for MONTH
| anu after starving two days more they
/ tried boiling lengths of tarred hemp rope.
into paratfine wax, and, though it made
I them very i'll at first, they eventually
contrived TO live on the boiled hemp, the
tar. boiled to a jelly, adding to the
nourishment of the rope.
Two men who went to a small island
off the Irish coast a little while ago kept
themselves going for ten days on diet
almost as bad. They landed in boat.
which was smashed by a wave on theiI"
/ trying 10 relaunch her. and they were
! left on the bare, rocky island, which has
| only slight scalp of coarse turf, with
out food. Fortunately there was spring
on the island, but nothing in the way
| of food but gulls. which they could not
| catch, and nothing to make n fire with
as a distress signal There are not
even any shellfish, as there is no beach,,
and the pair had to subsist for the ten
days on cold. raw seaweed washed up
by the tide. For two days they starved,
but after that they tackled the seaweed,
making three meals day of it, until
rescued.
a diet of boots is one of the common,
est of last resource foods; and, though it
is hard for a well fed person to imagine
that anyone could masticate and digest
shoe leather, pair of long sea boots
will keep man alive for Il fortnight, il
he has little water.
"Of course no teeth can tear cOwhide
boots: they have to be cut up and
shredded with n knife anu the shreds
chewed and swallowed. Boiling, even
when possible, does no good at all, but
takes from the boots what nourishment
they contain. A few ounces of leather,
being so hard to digest, stays in the
stomach for fifteen or twenty hours.
The best known and most useful of
starvation diets for wrecked or castaway
reople, however, is that of barnacles,
and if anything of the kind happens to
you, they will probably be your staple
food Barnacles are long. tough, half
shellfsh, half vegetable, creatures that
grow on the under sides of vessels.
Three Englishmen and crew of Las
cars, who had been forced to abandon
the sailing vessel North Star a few
months ago, kept themselves going for
10 ,,l,
of the crew died. The worst of them is
that they give one internal cramps and
cause an insufferable thirst; but they do
nourish the frame"