Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1917-07-07


my life.
Mrs. Green, Luclle's mother, was pa.
tiently cheerful and drank three glasses
OF water like u sponge. I didn't care
much for mine. had previously had no
Idea that water was so fiat and taste
less. 1t Is also IN extraordinarily elus-
I've and clammy thing to put into an
empty stomach which is eagerly ex.
pecting bacon ana eggs, mullins and
coffee.
II feel better already" Lucille said
gayly as we left tho table. "My mind
Is clcar-I have wasted none of my
vital energy In merely digesting food"
knew that she was quoting Upton
5. Clair, whom was beginning to re.
gard with disfavor, to say the least,
but rcfrained from voicing my opin-
ion Of man who will help women to
think up by themselves.
took a cigar from my pocket, cut
the tip OFF carefully with q silver cut
tor Lucille had given me the previous
Christmas and was about to light 1t
when she stopped me.
mo, no, no; YOU mustn't. Did for.
get to tell you that while we are fast
Ing we have to give up oil stlmulants
and narcotics. such rs alcohol and to.
bacco"
"What-cut out smoking for week?"
| certainly" she replied firmly. ain
the first place, If you don't you will be
deathly Ill; In the second place, the
whole object Of the fast Is to rid the
body Of oil toxic poisons, such as nico.
tine, alcohol and so forth. BY tho time
you have done without tobacco for a
week | should not BIO surprised if You
[ never smoked again.
"Nor mo either" reflected gloomly
4 out loud. "Ill be dead"
"Of course If you don't care to make
the experiment." Lucilc said Jelly, an
put of the fasting for another week
until Frank Bopp Is here. I'm sure he
will DO willing to try it."
This was waving red flag Mt me.
Frank Bopp was my rival. After her
reference to him would have gone
without breathing for n week If she
had suggested it Bopp Is a thin, con-
Versational insect who can perch on
tho arm Of girls chair and chirp by
the hour Sometimes 1 regret that for
architectural and educational reasons
I can't do that, and then remember
what other men would think OF me if
l could, and l am solaced. / refrain
from saying whit l think Of the name
i "Bopp."
| Thus through my love and jealousy
was led into deeper water or, shall
| say, more water because somebody
handed mo glass Of the stuff every
few minutes. l drank 1t In the vain
| hope that ! could drown the inner
man, who seemed to be yelling for
help all the time and kicking me Just
| below the belt buckle when he didn't
! get it,
That morning we went for walk.
walking Is the best exercise In tn.
world,' Lucille stated. ut is excellent
! for reducing surplus flesh around the
abdominal region"
Invariably she had n little singer for
! me concealed in any remark she might
; make, have since learned that this
; Is sign that woman takes a propric
3. tary interest In man.
| Befc' went she fed Tootles, her
; long haired pup. Tootles Is one Of those
dogs SO constructed by nature that
when you want to look them In the face
you don't know where to look. 1 often
! wonder If Tootles herself isn't in doubt
as to which end to wag.
! Isn't Tootlcs going to fast too?" l
; protested. Cant she stand it as well
as camp
! POSSIBLY she could do It," Lucille
S011 chn
! but sho hasn't intelligence enough to
understand why she should 20 without
food"
! I'm not far above Tootles in intelli-
: gence, then," I remarked, but under my
/; breath this time, SO she could not hear.
, After watching Tootlcs eat we went
: walking. Whenever I go walking In
, the city hire n tnXicab. If want to
see nature In all her grandeur do go
tramping through the woods? I do
D.! not 1 buy seat at u moving picture
, show where they are running a west
: ern outlaw film. Mature for a nickel
Is my motto. Fatigue is eliminated,
and the sum total OF knowledge Is adj
vanced several thousand feet.
After we had covered several miles,
Us II seemed TO me, l suggested that
We had better not go much farther
away from home.
"Why not?" Lucille Qucried.
, I'VE might not get back In time for
lunch"
| Il brought our lunch" she said and
produced flask of water.
| I groaned. had nearly forgotten
that there was to BIO no lunch. It's
curious how much you depend on meals
to break up the day. All tho morning
long you keep thinking, 81 must get
so much done before lunch," and then
In the afternoon you spur yourself ON
| to an extra effort with the thought
OF better dinner than usual when you
get through. Take these meal land
marks out of your day and what is
left? Nothing but dreary, dead level
desert OF time, day whose limits seem
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