The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-11-17
$40 A MONTH FEEDS TWO
WOMAN WHO FLETCHERGZES
LAUGHS AZ TRUST PRICES.

she and Her Husband amprON ing In Health
IN q Diet That Cuts OuG All Meats and
Nest OF the Usual MeaIs Problem OF
Living solved ny Avoiding the High
Priced PrOtelds-FruIt for Desserts.
There il a woman up in Harlem who is
NOT worrying about the rise in the price Of
foods. She has just added up her expens
account for last month and found that IL
amounts 10 $1,000. which is sos less than
il was the month before and more than
she expects il TO be next month.
Her family consists only Of herself and
her husband. but cOmpsny has consumed
a quantity Of food which would have suficed
for At least one healthy. growing child.
When abe was asked the other day how she
managed il she replied with a smile:
BY not eating at all, some people would
say.
you zee my husband and | are Fletcher
ties. That is, we masticate every morsel
we take into our mouths until we have az
tracted all its nourishment, and therefore
we do not need more than about a third Of
the quantity Of food required 10y the peo-
pie who waste most Of what they eat by
bOlting H.
We only eGt two meals a day and those
are light ones. We've cut out breakfast
entirely, reduced lunch to a mere snack
and even simpliied dinner 10 such an ex-
tent that most people would call Il nothing
more than a light supper.
w haven't had meat ON The table for
two months except when We have had
guests who we thought wouldn't he satis-
fled without IL, and since We dropped
breakfast we haven't had much uss for
eggs excep' in cooking.
A Yea and coffee Went With the break
fast. the rise in the price Of milk and cream
die not affect Ts as il did the tea and coffee
drinkers. We take regularly only a quart
81 milk every other day and occasionally
] order half a pint Of cream extra 30 whip
for dessert, Our milk bill for last month
was SCI
II think that r | could afford the time
really to give my mind 10 the task I could
easily get cur expenses Tor food down
10 SIC o month. Even without trying I OK
poet 10 reduce thsm one or two dollars
Ixt month because vs. are moi goins to
have any more met even when we are
entertaining conn amy
The LeOI 10 Who drop in on US unex-
lCC;edly ais ay- seem TO enjoy themselves
so much more than tire People Tor whom
w icy NV - A'flheNl' 'FlAl NFFNl lltN VIC W
decided that a icw simple things that are
LilCTcnt are moro acceptable than a feast
OF the corrcct aud inevitable company
dishes"
But how about hCalth?" she was asked.
n you find tiaj You cen keep well and
strong on such abort cOmmons?T p
We not only lrn,A we'll AMI strong. " she
rerlicd. but Nc Gre, g'iTing weller and
stronger every cay A. a matter oil fact
We took up Fleicherism for the salse of our
health.
My husband had a aTticGla rly obstinate
case Of dyspepsia. and rom hearing him
talk Ubout IL | began to take on the Sym =
toms, although before my marriage I bad
always had the stomach Of an ostrich. Then
! made up my mind that | wasn't going "a
be a dyspeI tic even II my husband az. and
so ! went in for mastication aud reduced
diet.
"Of course my husband, being q dysr ar
tic. couldn't resist trying a new treatment.
aud so he went in for Fletchsrism too.
We've been at il nov for a little over six
months and I ann 7 erfectly well eeain and
my husbands ten year case Of dysrepsis
N Practically cureI."
And what do you Oat'' asked the in