The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-01
SENIOR SANToS'S GREEN DIET.
HE THRIHES ON AND ENJOYS
MANY VARIETIES or GRASS.
Peculiar Prescription OF Cuban Doctor
for the Cure OF D,spepsia-Ths Senior
VIII Pursue the Elusive Summer Up and
Down the Blooming World for Food.

peculiar PRESCRIPTION OF Cuban Doctor
for the Cure OF Dyspepsia-The Senior
VIII Pursue the Elusive Summer Up and
Down the Blooming World for Food
Senior Eusebio Santos. a dapper little
Spaniard living in Fifty-frst street, Brook
lyn, thrives on diet of grass alone-plain,
ordinary grass, which he plucks in the
, park with his own hands. His only drink
ia water.
The story of the Senior was eorroborated
by the people with whom he lives, and he
himself aceentuated his tale by eating
about quart of fresh grass for the gentle
men Of the press, out of two quart soup
tureen. The greenish tinge Of his lips, offset
by his olive complexion, gives him weird
look. His black, darting eyes and small
milstache. look anything but bovine. and
yet he chews grass like any herbivorous ami
NAL, calmly, slowly and with elaboration.
"Sehor," he said in Spanish. taking a
mouthful of what remained in the large
tTeen, Il am Spaniard. l came to Cuba
from Spain fifteen years ago, and before !
was very long on the island my health
gave out. was always ailing and always
doctoring. One day l was in hospital
being treated for troubles Of the digestion.
l had been smoking necessarily and / was
a nervous wreck besides.
'Starve yourself said my physician,
who was Of great skill in his art: Eat
patatas,' said he; eat patatas. l grew
'Starve yourself, them said my learned
physician, But, ! said ! must eat some
thing. Then chew grass said he; nice,
clean grass, and drink water
Il was soon well enough to leave the
hospital and shortly afterward l went to
the United States. went to work in a
Spanish hotel In Fifteenth street, New York.
That was about a year and half ago. At
first ate other things besides grass. Late
no flesh, for hate the idea of eating ami
became nothing but grass and water When
dinner time came the other employees
would troop to their dinner, but I would
60 to the park.
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For six months my diet has been
but grass. Now an, in perfect physical
condition. never all feel strong and
warm and fresh. and | have forgotten what
1t is to have headache
in ordinary grass that seems to you homo
geneous. Some of it is bitter and some
sweet; some salty and some peppery. 1t
has almost any taste. like that mamma
which the children OF Israel ate in the will
derness."
The people with whom Senior Santos
lives say that he declines to eat grass from
the back yard. Sunset Park is his present
source Of supply, and the grass which he
plucks there he eats straight without
washing. Mornings and evenings he goes
out to the park pluoks about two quarts
and brings II home in bag. He transfers
It to a soup tureen and makes meal at
the window.
He has lived in the house about four
days. The first meal he made there sent
the women in the house after their smelling
bottles. Now they are quite accustomed
t o it. and they are teaching him English
while watching him eat
The sefior said he was not trying to es
tabish either fad or sanitarium. nor does
he mean to make a patent breakfast food
OF his kind Of diet.
What will you do in winter?'
Il shall go to New Orleans he said, "or
to some other place where there is grass
all the year round. Caramba! shall follow
the SUMMER
Santos is well educated, and as soon as he
learns English he hopes to become much
engaged in the commerce. of Panama.
The Park Commissioners last night de-
clined to say whether or not they would
take summer boarders on the park lawns