The San Francisco call., 1906-06-17
SPECIAL CABLE TO THE CALL.


LONDON, June 16.-Food faddists
are as a rule somewhat inactive folk; !;
distinguished principally for giving
advice to others. The list of their
private accomplishments generally
sums up to nil. 1t is certainly an ex-
ception when we find one who has
| been able-just on the strength of his
diet-to win championships. produce
books, teach difficult subjects, engage
in strenuous journalism and generally
win success in many varied under
takings.
Such a diet crank is Eustace
Miles, who recently won the amateur
| tennis championship from the stren-
uous young Jay Gould, or rather held
can player. Miles won by sheer force
of bodily tissues, built up and nour-
| ished, as he claims, by his remarka BILE
system of dietetics.
The chief item of this system, it may
be added, is bland-looking sub
stance called proteid." which resem-
bles the pap of early childhood, and
upon a cupful of which Miles says he
can do more work and with less ia
tigue than most people could on the
most substantial of beefsteaks, forti-
| fed by the ordinary vegetables and
alcoholics.
When you first hear of Eustace
Miles dietary notions you are natur-
ally inclined to include them among
the thousands of others said to work
wonders for the human anatomy.
When. however. you learn what Miles
has accomplished in his thirty ght
years, and when. in addition, it is
stated that he owes all of this to his
choice of food, you begin perforce to
give his statements an attentive hear
ing.
& - 1f
the world and holding all sorts of ath-
letic medals for various other sports
such as football, cricket and "fves"--
the food revolutionist has to his credit
some large accomplishments in the
world of letters No less than twenty
four publishers are engaged in bring
ing out his various boks. which range
anywhere from philology and Roman
history to food recipes and court ten
mis- He seems, in fact. to be a very
fair example of the old adage-a
healthy mind in a healthy body, for his
brain seems to be nimble as his mus
cles and the amount of work he can
do in a given time is astonishing.
Strangely enough, Eustace Miles first
had his attention directed to food
values while in Boston a few years ago.
He was then under treatment by a
we'll known physician, who, however,
seemed to do him little good Miles be-
gan studying up the question of
foods, and came to the conclusion that
he would diet himself in accordance
with certain information he obtained
from books by Atwater and other eX-
perts.
He made a special study of sub
stances which contained nothing but
proteid, and in the course of his in
vestigations found that he could keep
himself pretty well fed-not sumptu-
ously, mind you--on about 10 cents a
day To subsist in Boston on so hum
Bile a sum should have won national
recognition for the tennis champion;
but 1t seems little notice was taken at
the time of the Miles experiments.
It is meet and proper, however. that
the home of the baked bean should
have been one of the factors in bring
ing about the revolution which has
substituted the bean for the beefsteak
as the main article in the Miles diet.
Perhaps, incidentally this will account
for the mysterious prominence of Bos-
ton hitherto in matters intellectual.
On returning to England Miles, after
curing himself of Indigestion, began
giving advice to others on how they
should eat and what they should do in
cases of disease arising from digestive
disorders.
1T may sound more or less incredi-
ble.' said Miles, speaking of some of
his cures, but / have positively
treated Bright's disease-in it's early
stages-quite successfully without any
other remedy but diet. Several persons
who came to me with this disease Were
cured, while the lives of others have
been undoubtedly prolonged. Before
very long I found that | had nearly a
thousand food pupiis, who put them
selves under my care. had thorough
ly worked out by this time my theories
of food and / was able to accomplish
some remarkable results on persons
who had been practically abandoned
by regular medical men.
The proteid substance which / have
discovered-or rather. to be more ac-
curate-extracted from substances
containing large amounts of proteid--
enables one to do an immense amount
of work without feeling the least
fatigue. For instance. 1 take a cup of
this substance on awakening in the
morning / then lie in bed and write
sometimes two or three newspaper or
magazine articles. Facility of compo-
sition seems to be so much stimulated
that / can often turn out two news
paper articles in san hours time; and
/ never feel any brain fag after these
efforts l can write steadily three thou
sand words an hour and the writing
will be legible and accurately worded.
attribute uCciAJ Oh lily success TO the
systematic use of the food substances
/ have discovered.
"Of course, l never eat meat, but /
have found certain substances, such as
/ have mentioned, to contain more
nourishment than meat. 1t would be
illogical. therefore. to stick to the
old diet after finding something better
Mr.. Miles was asked to give some
idea of the amount of work he had
been able to accomplish through his
food products.
We'll last year coached no less than
zoo students for Cambridge University,
giving instruction in classics, mathe-
matics and some OF the most dif7cult
branches. In addition, to this work,