The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-06
SENIOR SANTOS GREAT DIET.
He Thrtves on and Enjoys Many
Varieties of Grass.
From the New York Su

FROM the New York Sun.
Senior Eusebio Santos, a dapper little
Spaniards living in Fifty-frst street.
Brooklyn, thrives on a diet of grass
alone-plain, ordinary grass, which he
plucks in the park with his own hands.
His only drink is water.
The story of the Senior was corrobo-
rated by the people with whom he
lives, and he himself accentuated his
tale by eating about quart of fresh
grass for the gentlemen of the press, ."
out of two quart soup tureen. The
greenish tinge of his lips, offset by his
olive complexion, gives him a weird
look. His black, darting eyes and small
mustache look anything but bovine,
and yet he chews grass like any her
blVorous animal, salmly, slowly and
with elaboration.
Senior" he said in Spanish, taking
mouthful of what remained in the
large tureen, II am a Spaniard.
came to Cuba from Spain fifteen years
ago, and before l was very long on
the island my health gave out. 1 was
| always ailing and always doctoring.
One day [ was in a hospital being
treated for troubles of the digestion.
l had been smoking necessarily, and
'Starve yourself, said my physi-
clan, who was of great skill in his art.
Eat patatas said he; eat patatas.' l
| grew sick of potatoes; l could eat them
no more. 'StarVe yourself, then said
| my learned physician. But l said I
must eat something. Then chew grass,
said he; nice, clean grass, and drink
water.
4 was soon we'll enough to leave the
hospital and shortly afterward 1 went
| to the United States. l went to work
in Spanish hotel in Fifteenth street,
! New York. That was about "a year
and a half ago. At first l ate other
| things besides grass. l ate no flesh,
! for l hate the idea of eating animals
| that have been killed. In time my
diet became nothing but grass and
| water When dinner time came the
other employees would troop to their
dinner, but l would go to the park.
All, the COW is going to grass
again. the other employees said, but
| didn't mind. For six months my diet
has been but grass. Now 1 am in per-
| feet physical condition. l never all
1 feel strong and warm and fresh, and
| have forgotten what it is to have
a headache
Know. Senior, that there is great di-
versity in ordinary grass that seems
| to you homogeneous. Some of it is
| bitter and some sweetffi some salty and
| some peppery. 1t has almost any
! taste, like that Mamma which the chill
| dren of Israel ate in the wilderness
| The people with whom Senior Santos
| lives says 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
| plucks about two quarts and brings il
home in a bag. He transfers it to a
soup tureen and makes a 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 to it, and they are teach
ing him English while watching him
| eat.
The senior said he was not trying to
establish either a fad or sanitarium
nor does he mean to make a patent
breakfast food of his kind of diet.
What will you do in winter?'
1T 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 we'll educated, and as soon
as he learns English he hopes to be-
come much engaged in the commerce
of Panama.
The Park Commissioners last night
declined to say whether or not they
would take summer boarders on the
park lawns.