The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-03-16
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81 something IN this starvation cure, -
said the Wife in the Harlem flat, and
Z also thought that You were going to
help me fast alls during II Lent. But
/ had to make the test alone Not a
sonl to help me excepting my. cousin
who came over; to luncheon ths day
we, sent out for q two dozen oyster
fry and the man cheated us, because
I@had ll2h only twelve and myfcousin had
only eleven {
'tBut 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 7
shouldn't try it also, and yet I don t
believe any one in his right appetite
could do. it. &4tt.&. ,.r.,
Z "Now, the very first day Of Lent T
ate nothing but my three meals, and
a cup Of chocolate and some cake
when the German woman OH the first
floor called me in because she had just
made q beautiful apfel-studel, and she
wanted me to try it, and T 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 I
left off drinking that long ago, I
took only three cups. > -. IN.
$50 you see, it WASH It want of. ef-
feet that made me disgusted with this
new cure. I felt worse than ever be-
fore while I was taking it. :,.F -
"There is q 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
kaffee- -klatsch that day I felt SO for
lorn and hungry that I just sent 'out
and-got a pound Of bonbons and sat
down and ate every one of them. It
spoiled my appetite for dinner, and
you were so anxious about me that
you really forced me to keep on eating
even after 7 had taken my usual
amount. ....
"Then what did you do to help me
fastq You came home with, glowing
description of q meal you had in
Hitchcock IS, or else you treated your
self to fruit lunch, bananas and or
anges and once you said you ate
whole bag of dates. .~s. -. y,
,%"t made me so hungry that J. just
couldn't help eating, and. after dinner
that night L simply had to send out
to the delicatessen store for Bis
marck herring and some roast ham,
for I felt so faint that I knew I should
collapse unless I got something 3sus-
tanning.
}"Yet every day I persisted in the
treatment, and can't say it did me
particle Of good. I was hungry all
the time and nothing that I ate. had
the least effect on my increasing ap-
petite. 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, T don t know what more sac
rifce could have been demanded. Last
night all we had were a, few water
crackers with a little anchovy' on
them; a thin soup, little salad--and
wasn't that the loyeliest porterhouse
roast you ever saw I thought I could
never get enough Of it. ;
's.And 'the shad / Lthink that it is
simply disgraoeful and bitter mock
cry that when shad Is at its very best
people are supposed not to eat much.
But I don't care. If I see nice plank
ed shad, with the daintiest kind Of
stuffing and roe fried to delicate
brown, I am just going to, eat, no
matter how rigid I am in selecting my
diet. ..,.. =. = n: ,
III"That, was all, excepting a few
trifling vegetables. Still, I must adj
NIT the asparagus was good. And j
liked the dessert, too.
: "And for breakfast, what was
there7 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 shat you were finished
before I was half through. =
HlThen you'd sit there watching
me and make me so ashamed that I
wouldn't be able to eat half as much