Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-11-09

O hurry. But It's very bad Tor tho
hair, my dear child. Your hair viii
all fall out If you don't supply certain
other elements. You must take four
fresh eggs day in addition to the
milk
Now. Marcella's hair is her strong.
est point, SO the eggs were speedily
added. Another friend explained that
some fresh fruit, preferably grapes.
should be regularly partaken of for tho
sake of color and general freshness.
Still another insisted upon tomatoes
daily, for similar reasons. Janet, who
looked on with interest, now began to
prescribe the daily quart of cream.
At the end OF. month, therefore,
Marcella was laboriously consuming
four quarts Of milk, one quart Of
cream, four fresh eggs, pound OF
grapes, and three tomatoes every day
"A diet somewhat unusual and not
even to be recommended on the
grounds of economy, as Marcella had
at first hoped. She was also becoming
severely afflicted with indigestion and
insomnia, while the identifying effects
of the regimen were slow in appear
ing. Her skin, in fact, looked muddy,
her eyes were heavy, even the bril-
liant hair seemed to lack its ordinary
gloss and glory. She was gaining
flesh certainly, but she felt almost too
dull and languid to move.
"Your diet is too heavy, or else you
were in bad condition when you start
3D." decided Janet, fresh as rose and
full OF good spirits. TRY a mineral
water in addition. In Germany they
often do that"
So three glasses of vile-tasting min
eral water were added to the diet, and
about this time Marcella left of doing
anything but diet. There seemed little
time to live or walk or study, for one
thing, what with milk-drinking, fruit
eating and the hygienic exercises neces-
sary in order to make existence endur.
able; also a sort of collapse came
upon her. One morning she felt so i'll
that she sent for the landlady, instead
Of rising.
II think I've been taking too much
Marcella told the hastily
summoned physician, who felt ner
pulse and looked knowing.
'Half starved" the landlady whis-
pered-to the doctor as they went down.
stairs.
The doctor, being no less wise in the
ways of impecunious art students. be"
lieved the landlady and prescribed, aft
er three days Of unlimited hot water
and fasting, generous milk diet"
Marcella, weak, weary and faint at
sight or thought Of milk, fed from the
landlady's kindly milk dishes 10 visit
TO Janet. Janet's mother, kind.
capable, sympathetic, put her to bed
again and concocted eggnogs and other
sickeningly reminiscent drinks for the
disguised invalid. Janet herself, more
than ever anxious about her friends
looks, since the violent dyspepsia fol-
lowing the collapse, had proved any
thing but becoming, perpetually
tagged Marcella, as soon as the latter
was able to rise, with glasses and
pitchers Of milk and lime. water. In
the end Marcella, ready. to cry with
nervousness and worry, decided to go
home.
1.-THE autumn will be nice In the
country" she told Janet, "and you'd
better come with me. My mother IL
as dear and sweet, as yours Is, and
we'll have a good time until the life
classes open again."
So down to the country they went.
and Marcella's mother, worried about
her daughter, pleased to see Janet
pressed q glass of new milk, with twt