Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-02-23
Or. TANNERS FASTING.
Will Begin His Eighty Second Year
With an Eishty.Da Fast.

Back il the early eighties, DIR. Henry
s. Tanner. being then a young man o:
some ffty-ndd summers. came to the
conclusion that the average man and
woman aJe too much so he
tasted for :orty days, and the eating
public was permitted to derive fifty
cents worth Of amusement and in
struction by gazing upon him NJ hu.
bcrs.
In thoee days. fasting was not one
OF the leading indoor sports. The old
fashioned custom Of eating was still in
vogue; they were all doing it thar sea
son. Consequently DIR. Tanners self
inflicted starvation attracted much at
trntion-----nl0rc even thaa the walking
faats of Edward PaEson Weston, then
in his primo. Tn" ether day ID. Tan
ntr celebrated his eiEhty-lirst birth
day. ard til" dcsir" to fareswcar rho
square meal once more returned. II"
d"ciG.d 10 spend The first eigh,y days
al lis Eighty scctEd year in lasting
and contemplation.
br. tanner apparently has reached
tie aGr whore H. can afford IL he .
humanitariar. Years ago. wacn he
first wont in for fasting he an, al
course. hope To $ an oXamnlc for his
Il How '"uniryna who ovCrata. Pnt
they do say tlilt e made a very GOOD
th!n% ont al his dailN exhibition, at
f'lcrS. To-day Dr. Tanner Is many
sAeueS Tfen Fourteenth Street and
tff lure Il the museum 10 longer oh
taihs. IL" is in Les Angeles.
Perhaps his motive j. what - saws
1t l.; /" show die american public
the way To settle enea ana fo,. an rho
Beet Trust and the high cost of liy-
rag. ieshaps It i to prepare him for
more economic housekeeping, for Dr.
f'2her +1YS he intends to get natrie !
wien ne Is loh years old. Al any rate.
IL II" q th1S" matters WAS ri sufficient
pun ana moment 10 cause him to ab-
Stain from food iof forty DAYS lack in
Tao "iGnties. Hence, it may be as
sum u thu advancing year. hace
III" l. 81 him 4 humanitarian.
F9tIp AND ROUTINE
III I'nner has set his heart on max
M \ r"e"id this time. He declares
mat tfoS' forty Zoo dless days did not
tax his endurance to the limit. Like
most believers in the gentle art of
tasting, ltr. Tanner attributes much OF
IN" worlds suffering to eating-not
"N'''ati e&. necessarily, but simply
e@tInS 81 the thr= mea lisa day vari-
etE' /" keen perfect health, one
SlNul" clt of tT"-thds of ones food
suHplf, he s&vs. Abstain from all
ieSh Goods, give up tea and coffee, and
you nave ms formula for long lie and
good ilealt.=. says Dr. Tanner:
lplet %E0ald not be 4 matter of rou-
tlhe. and with the exceptions stated. a
person may eat what he wants. The
1o"N = led and nouriSh1d through tn.
lungs, which supply the principal vital
forces, TIC stomach being only a Sec
#7hdarN conaidf ration. Plenty of fresh
1tr i great essential. and walking
should be INDUCED IN systematically"
Dr. Tanner Is Il comparatively mod
80 advocate q fasting. Jumped to-
@etAer, III" benefits derived from fast :
lng-ts described by thu hundreds who
have tri"d it-csta blsh its claims tG
heinG 4 panaeea .'ccond to none II
cures I'll Sorts % things People havs
emerged from q ten DAYS fast deelar.
liz That they have taken on weight
Others have f,IsteI ana succeeded IN
taking n Ncie',,. Sill others have
''"on cuica u dyspepsia, rheumatism
Insomnia, a!E frost bite. One man
lbstainrd rron food for three weeks
ths j." might strpIethcn his ".ubcon-
scioGs mind and accomplish much In
the way of auto Suggestion" 4 NO
man of less scien,lir turn oC mind
IL 80
shaver oath" And one enthusiast
maintained il Wa the only road thai
led out Of he'll t. heaven"
Md 81 il goes. OF course, there is
fasting and fasting. There is the total
fast, End the tl.dilied or partial fdst
and thcn there is a tiird variety which
~ a COMBINATION of the two. The tot =!
iaSt Is n" severe 10: it means going
without anything put water ana fresh
Iir until the cure" is effected 4 man
N Johannesburg. South Africa. tried
mis- system last ar, hoping il would
eura nina "f dyspepsia. ana he died.
Was il as a result Of the treatment
Those who h,lirvn in fasting are not
prepared 10 admit it. The real qaes-
lion is. would the man have lived IL
10 hal not tasted?
DR.. Tanner is not influenced by the
failures recorded against those who
have tried tho lOi Il last. If he We're.
lc Wculo have reelected on the case OF
:oar neiehEor. II his in Los Angeles,
who tasted fer religious reasons. They
were members OF cult styled The
Disciples of the HCiy Ghost With the
Gift If Tongues and their leader, the
Rev. John O'Neil Irving died at the
end af six weeks. The three others
We're rescued much To their disgust,
from their cottage from which they
lad not gone for tcl days. They were
too weak To stir.
FASTING POI CI.AE IN 1910.
This happened only LAST summer. and
was tne last Of Il long string of fasting
feats which had kept people int rested
COR many HeekS. The spring OF 1919
VAS he open season for fasters. The
Beef Trust had raised its prices. but
ter had gene mp ior Il grand altitude
record, and there was so much talk
about the high cost Of living that peo-
pie b gaG - think seriously of Ccono-
niZing on their food.
The very ho st thing YOU could do, -
said the believers IN fasting.
Observe then th.. effect of all this