Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-10-29

breath this time, SO Sne cOulQ NOT near.
After watching Tootles eat We went
walking. Whenever ! 60 walking in
the city I hire . taxicab. II want to
see nature in all her grandeur do 60
tramping through the woods? I do
not. buy q seat at a moving picture
show where they are running west
ern outlaw film. Mature for q nickel
in my motto. Fatigue II eliminated,
and the sum total Of knowledge Is ad-
vanced several thousand feet.
After we had covered several miles,
az it seemed to me, I suggested that
We had better not 60 much farther
away from home.
why notT Lucille Queried.
I'VE might not get back In time for
lunch"
II brought our lunch," she said and
produced flask of water.
I groaned. had nearly forgotten
that there was to be no lunch. It's
curious how much you depend on meals
to break up the day. All the morning
long you keep thinking, II must get
80 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
laft? Nothing hut = dreary. dead level
desert of time. . dly whose limits seem
mtelminable.
"How many days is II untn We eat
againT I asked hopelessly.
"Six and q half" Lucille computed.
''Then we get some orange juice and .
few kernels Of popcorn"
Then what7"
"That's all for the first day"
A few kernels Of popcorn! Can You
imagine q kernel Of popcorn floating
hithef and yon in all that sea Of water
and finally giving up with despairing
shrek when 4 Ands there = NO place
to land7
you mustn't think of things to eat
You're not really hungry. 1t is your
Imagination. Tighten your belt and
you wont know that you haven't
eaten"
followed her advice. True enough,
tho belt was quite }oose. 4 terrible
thought struck mo- few days Of fast
ing and would have to wear suspend
ers! had always pEiasd myself on .
self supporting figure, % Il were, and
had jeered at the fence rail build which
Is obliged to hang all III garments
from it, shouldarB- Already with one
meal missing I was up to tho last
notch in my belt
Along toward noon I noticed . dis
tinct headache.
That win pass away" Lucille assured
me. Upton 8. Clair says 50, and be
ought to know"
"Why ought he to know?" snapped.
did he invent headaches, or is he just
genefalizing from reading about some
body else's headache? This pain I've
got here has settled in my region OF
thought for z long run, and I defy any
Upton 8. Clair to drive it out"
Don't be Cross" Lucille soothed. let
me dip my handkerchief in this spring
here and wet your forehead with it."
She did, and while It didn't do any
good always like to have her fussiag
around me.
The spring is one that every one Wis
its who comes to the island, and there
is tin cup sitting on rock near by.
started to get drink.
"You mustn't drink that water" In.
Gle stopped me. You must not drink
anything but distilled water while you
are fasting"
"Why notT
because when there II nothing else
in it the stomach IL particularly sus-
ceptihle to disease"
That was more Of L. 8. Glars maya.
zine stun. knew It. Probably be got
about s cents word for It too.
That water. pure ~ It Il, may have
microbes in it." she continued.
what chance would microbe have
against my stomach" I returned bit.
terly, but refrained from drinking
the water. In those days that woman
had me under her thumb.
At nightfall we sat around that white
table once more. I think even Lucile's
enthusiasm was wavering. It seemed
distinctly more Of an effort to be cheer
full than It had at breakfast. Her moth
er was frankly miserable ana eyed me
with . glance which warned me that