The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-05-19
THEY SMILE BUT
THEY EAT NO FOOD
Mrs TraSk, Miss MaekeIlor and MISS
Townsend are Not "Faddists,r but
"MethOdistS.

NEW YORK.-Special- sat on
the sofa and smiled. They weren't
even pallid. And when it comes to
resolute determination Stonewau !
himself could not have eclipsed those
three young women of Garden City
VINO have foresworn all flesh, fish.
IoWl. 1udge, frappes-in fact. all food
Tor the next seventeen DAYS
The three are Mrs. II. Keith Trask
Miss Marian MacKellar and Miss Anne
townsend. All are graduates of 81
Mary's Academy, where their TRAN
Sular friendship began. They are pop
uIar In their home town. They are
Now. why do those charming
young women want to be so foolish ?"
asks Garden City. A reporter visited
them yesterday to find out. Their or
deal began yesterday morning. They
are living in a cottage on First Street
| the home of Mrs. Trask and her
mother. Mrs. Frederick Sawyer.
FIRST or all. said Miss MaCKellar.
we are not sufragists. Neither are
We christian Scientists. nor New
! ThouEhtists. or Disciples Of Confucius
Or faddists OF any sort
| Miss Townsend, who is engaged TO
wed Miss MaCKellar's brother. drop-
| ped the section of trousseau on which
she was working and exclaimed:
| And we're not trying to improve
our compleNions. And we don't want
TO be any thinner. We're not trying
40 get fat.either And we haven't got
! Indigestion. We are Sim,slV Suffprius q,
! rom general condition Of phvsica /
! debilitation. We are Methusalites
| We want to live just as long as we
| possibly can. So we take this means
| Of recruiting from the life weary-ins
Istrenuosity OF the social season. For
we don't any Of MS have much faith
i'm medicine"
Now let as tell YOU exactly what
We are going 10 do continued Miss
i mol NNaa
ana the next day We are not going t.
! take anything into our mouths but
water. Then beginning Thursday we
shall take glass of milk every singl,
nour thot we are awake. After Thurs
IaN we are going 10 increase our milk
doses. In a few days we shall he
taking one glass every half hour We
arc going To take turns NJ pouring il
out and being waiter. For fourteen
days we shall continue this diet
We haven't had any breakfast or
any lunch. And we've been sitting
here talking OF the things we like best
TO eat-strawberrY shOrtcake and filet
miSnon and chocolate ice cream So
das and deviled lobster and"
Just then a knock sounded and in
walked Miss Maude Wood. She is a
very intimate friend of ~u jho girls
but she is a skeptic on tive s oct of
food elimination. Under nc. ;.:.a she
carried a large carefully ope.td box
of crackers. And like the sailors
wife in Macbeth. she "munched and
munched and munched."
I'm hungry she explained eIab-
orately to the two other girls Have
some?' with q sociable smile Then
she set the box down on the table and
carefully arranged a small train of
crackers within easy reach of her.
i feel responsible for this, you
know" she said to the reporter For
4 began at a tea in my house about
week ago. These three were there
and they all got TO talking about the
magazine article Of Upton Sinclair in
which ne advocates this precious
scheme, and everyone of these chill
dren was wild over It."
Mrs. TraslS went 10 the cracker
strewn table. Everybody held her
breath. With the tips of her fingers
she lifted a tOothsome well Drowned
cracker and-broke it in two and fed
II to her dog. He's Nippon, a curly
black cocker spaniel.
"You see how strong-minded am
quoth Mrs. Trask, calmly. And she
gave Nippon anothe4 cracker.
You're not making him join the
fast. then - asked the reporter.
Little doggie wouldn't understand"
said NippOn's mistress serenely.
We have not accepted a single bet
on the issue, not because we were
afraid, but because we felt it was too
serious an affair to take lightly OF
course. our friends are betting among
themselves, but we are not We came
here alone to this house in order not
to have our families force food down
our Threats. We are going to stick
il out"
The others nodded grim assent.
And when it's all over, won't - you
have one grand spread Of celebra-
uon?" asked the reporter.
It'll be cemetery, not a celebra-
ton for theirs!" grumbled their friend