Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-01-10
CAN DO WITHOUT WATER.
At Least He Can in Texas, if These
 Experiments Prove Anything.

At Least He Can ill Texas, if These
 Experiments Prove Anything.
 Major Theodore Schiermier of
 Texas thinks he has dis proved the theory that drinking water is necessary to the existence of d hu.
 man being. He has not taken q drink
 of water for many years-.iust how
 many he does not know, but it is ten
 or fifteen.
 He found that water did not agreo
 with him and he quit drinking it. He
 also quit eating all kinds of bread,
 at the same time.
 ] He began to take on flesh soon af-
 ter and is now fat and the picture of
 health. Although he is of middle age his complexion has tho pink colo,
 and delicate appearance of that of a
 baby. His muscles arc well devel-
 opcd and hard, and to all appearance
 he is in perfect condition.
 l Even in the hottest days of summer I he is not troubled with thirst. Occa, l Sionally he drinks a glass of beer. bu, l it is not often that he partakes of that beverage.
 He subsists principally on raw | meat. served in the form of tartar steak. and raw eggs. He eats few
 vegetables. The thirst which Mayor Schiermicr had when he first began to abstain from the use of water for drinking gradually disappeared. An old frontiersman. Capt. !. G. Merrill, in discussing the matter of
 water drinking said that in the earlier days, when frontier officers had to 1 take long chascs after Indians and border deSperadOcS, the water supply question never troubled the men. ana
 they would have given it little thought ebut for the fact that their horses had
 to have water.
 Drinking water is d habit. just like drinking whiskcy is continued Capt. Merrill. ''I belonged for several years 10 Major Joness company of ! rangers and there were several men in that company who had trained themselves to go for days at q stretch without q drop of water passing their lips. If their thirst made them LIT | comfortable they were wont to moist
 cn their mouth and throat with the juice of a cactus. I got so used to going without water on my lon" rides
 over the plains of west Texas that I still care very little for the fluid. Ere quently day after day passes without my drinking q drop of water or any thing except a small cup of coffee ! which l take at my breakfast. "l can show scores Of old Texas frontiersmrn who do not drink a gal lon of water month and are in the best of health and condition all the time. 1 also believe that the less wa ter a person drinks the longer he will live.
 One half of these long. sinewy.
 wiry. lani and lean fellows you sec on the ranches in west Texas and in the little towns drink so little water that they hardly know what it tastes like: but these same men can out fight and OutworI three of the ordin- ary fat water toperS.
 The late Gen Lawton had trained himself 10 go for days without touch ing water to his lips. He could stand any amount of marching and hard work.
 He got his first. knowledge of the uSclcssness of and injury of drinking large quantities of water from the Texas fronticrsmcn while serving with his cavalry troop in this state. He began to practise abstaining from water drinking and it was not lon. until Inc could 90 for days running without partakin. of s.
 II is Capt MerrilIs opinion that many ills of the body are caused by 1 the water drinking habit.