Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1908-02-08
A v|CAR|OUS EP|CURE
Scheme of a Man Whose Dlges-
tive Organs Were faded.
eASTRONOMIC JOY BY PROXY.

n. Couldn't Eat Himself, but no y
Secured the Markets For Game ana :,
n.;nt;es For Feasts For His Friends a
and Watched Them While They AVE. {,
..yh,,e aqo." observed the man who
ices things, II caught an old dyspep''c =
,r,end Of mine doing curious stunt .
he was watching a gang OF nesro
street PAYERS eating their noonuay q
meoI He watched them with sor' Vi {
Fascinated gaze. The feats they were {
accomplishing In the way OF projecting
absolutely impossible things into tneir
svstems seemed weird and almost un.
cannv TO my dyspeptlc friend. one o,
the negroes particularly seemed " no,u
tho enraptured focus of my irlenu
n,o,on This negro had for his noon
dov feed two gigantic sanu"iene1,
comnosed OF thick hunks or Doneu SAY
,or, stuck between big slabs OF Dreau'
He guped these two sandwiches -
ohout four bites and then ncKeu nis
ohons IN n hungry sort OF way as
they'd only about tasted ike uio'e "
him. IL more were to be hau' II wa"
n snellbinding spectacle in the view "a
nv dvspeptic friend. 1t looked 'hc,eu-
Tho ont of the question. II seemeu "
him such a spectacle as might pe III
forded by the sight of boa constric.oI
sood,nc on a full sized and kicking
donkey. ..o bio
darby. .,,v grin.
ned and licked his chops suggesu.e'S.
: "Could you eat any more o 'n"'
,rrkp' no asked the big negro.
c "The negro invited him to try Mill
+ dared him In fact, to find out
/ "Cet a couple more Of those sanu-
w,ches' nv friend said to the black,
;. and gave him the money 10 pay ioI
~ them at the wagon presided over ny
.ho negro woman In charge OF teeuihs
n. the gang. 80. A., other
u two huge salt pork sandwiches anu
;! mt them away with the same easy anu
% facie JUNCTION that he had exhiDiteu II,
- disposing OF the first two. My iii.nu
" Good and watched him as he put EN-
IS away. Then he shook his heau ose'
- and over again. He couldn't unue,
III Stond It 1t was beyond reason. hh
&c own diet consisted Of little milk VIII
rrohom waters. and the idea that an!
'o Two legged creature could get ava!
al With much less like, such a terrin
~ mess as those four salt pork sanu
=" witches came to-oh, 1t was the "o'"
-. inside down, that was all.
"'' "Well. this dyspeptic friend OF nin
ror,ndad me of rather celebrate
character who used to live In Washins
ton many years ago-now long III "
land of the beyond. He was a no'e
wit and bon vivant But through I.
cossive and kinkish eating ana urin'
- inc drinking particularly - ne I'D
unite ruined his stomach long oeio
: over met him. He had ruined II
: thororghlv that he could eat notnii
hut frozen food-frozen consonin.
y frozen fruits, frozen creams ana
lilo In fact, he existed almost wnol
- Too cream. which was made part
. ularlv for him by cher wnom nc g
Moved for fixing up bis frozen ioo'
Dot etnff of any sort was poison
a." This man with the lining OF MS s'o
luu ach all gone, and even morsei oi |
WIN sort Of natural food we ordinary III
son. +o1s nortake Of would have put
'- ~ out of the game entirely.
10 $50 with pralseworthy philosopl
iuu- chic c,ever and accomplished man
Tn signed himself to the system OF eetu
zen his gastronomic fun by proxy-tha'
wo9 70 saw. he'd enjoy watching otner ~
N"S , eat He'd provide the ways ana inea
laNf Hold do all of the buying. I've ehJ
'hf;n od some rare old feasts myself at |
o"n mans Washington house. l was
weSs one of the good eaters, with per-
.n"' stomach. whom he had on MS ISL
uson "Je'd find out the stuff that OF
TIC 20 tho others liked the most. ana
lifted vi ". oor,o IN his house to
sue take Of that stuff. There'd be terra
voy- IaAe VI '""' 1901 ooma Of all XII
i1en richly fixed vegetables, ornate ana
nastries. extraordinarily fine conee
Ine ltobtfullv bouuueted wines-everyt u
was IMAGINABLE. and q good deal OF
Iee ~ stuff as YOU may imagine to the
'"eos degree indlgestible except LOT
Ilhei' whose internal mechanism was Oh
final wno'e - a.soot working condi
nun. "And so, with such a spread al
HUI ord IN nrocess of being served
o tne ,,,,+ .oI1 in himself, from the ga
WIFI nom,c noint of view, would lean
Keeps ond lust watch us fellows, trleno
woriu' bis cat and enjoy ourselves. lie
q the +o,,,no LITTLE mourhfuls OF his II
adrift taAlns Ut, n,t - frozen asparagu
wiz frozen consomme. or the IKE.
eren'e' va wont on with the feast ana III
lrty ID ho q wistful CLEAN in his eyes
III. watched us putting away tue
ola.eS and the terrapln and the choice
as 'ne he wasn't allowed mouthl'
Ver a. wine even. should have SAID
up the VIZ - uos all over there were
cigars ready for us-he WASH p'
lnpor- +ad to smoke anything whatever
tbon we'd lust lie back and bio
tn"aru heovv. odoriferous rings of smoX
ed the a."' ~ nd oniov life I'D to tn
Dutch n.' ." ale
r spent VI ,ne no mood TO wonder Il
ding W sn,t ,nAicting needless t
Albany n" n.~,co,f but # really seen
q he was not. We used to as
G. about that. In fact. and be inya
replied that, next to eating III