The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-03-16
NO MORE FADS FOR HER.
She Gives the Starvation Cure a
Test And Finds There Is Moth
ing In It.

something IN this StafEatlon cure,
said the wife in the Harlem fat, "and
I also thought that you were going to
help me fast all during Lent. But
I had to make the test alone. Not a
soul to help me excepting my cousin
who came over to luncheon the day
we sent out for a two dozen oyster
frv and the man cheated US, because
7 had only twelve and my cousin had
only eleven.
s'But the magazines and papers
have been full Of the idea, and the So
ciety news said society was starving
itself on the best in the land, and as
it was. so cheap I didn't see Why |,
shouldn t try it also, and yet I DONE
believe. any one in his right appetite
could dc. it.
"Now, the very first day of Lent l
ate nothing but my three meals. and
a cup of chocolate and some cake
when the German woman on the first
floor called me in because she had just
made beautiful apfel-studel, and she
wanted me to try it, and I ate seven OF
the cutest little cheese tarts you ever
saw. I understood her to say she had
chocolate, but it was coffee, and as l
left off drinking that long ago, L
took only three cups.
$50 you see, it wasn't want OF. ef-
feet that made me disgusted with this
new cure. 7 felt worse than ever be-
fore while I was taking it.
tsThere is a most dreadful and de-
pressing effect on the mind when you
think of the abundance Of good things
that exist and you can't have any OF
them. Why do you know, that after
I came up from Mrs. Mehltraeter's
kafee-klatsch that day I felt 50 for
lorn and hungry that I just sent out
and<got a pound Of bonbons and sat
down and ate every one of them. 1t
spoiled my appetite for dinner, and
YOU were so, anxious about me that
YOU really forced me to keep on eating
even after had taken my usual
amount.
s:Then what did you do to help me
fast9 You came home with, glowing
description of a meal you had IN
Hitchcoek's, or else you treated your
self to a fruit lunch, bananas and or.
anges and once you said you ate a
whole bag Of dates. -<< -. > = -
s>stIt made me so hungry that just
couldn't help eating, ana. after dinner
that night I simply had to send out
TO the delicatessen store for a Bis.
marck herring and some roast ham,
for I felt so faint that knew I should
collapse unless I got something sus-
tanning.
:scsYet every day I persisted in the:
treatment, and I can't say it did me
particle of good. I was hungry all
the time, and nothing that l ate had;
the least effect on my increasing ap-
petite. I spoke to all my friends
about it, and they all said that when
one is trying the starvation cure it
is necessary to eat. only the plainest
and most substantial food: That is
why we had roast squad twice IN sue:
cession.
"Now, I don t know what more sac
rifce could have been demanded. Last
night all we had were q few water
crackers with a little anchovy on
them; thin soup, little salad-and
wasn't that the loyeliest porterhouse;
roast YOU ever saw! I thought I could
never get enough Of it. -;
"And sthe shad Z think that it is
simply disgraeeful and bitter mock
cry that when shad Is lat its very best
people are supposed MOTTO eat much.
But I don't care. If I see nice plank
ed shad, with the daintiest kind Of
studfing and roe fried to a delicate
brown, I am just going to eat, no
matter how rigid I am in selecting my
diet.
"That was all, excepting a few
triaing vegetables. Still, I must ad-
NIT the asparagus Was good. And l
liked the dessert, too:
"And for breakfast, what was
there? Cereals, that is all, excepting
the usual coffee, mullins, broiled ham,
poached eggs, country sausage and
fruit. You would sit down and eat
so hurriedly that you were finished
before I was half through.