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Show - - "TO. T r--- . , - T y-TO'- $i ' . H H ' I r II , u J.. ii JIi J. 7. Llcrrlscn's Exreri-c; Exreri-c; :c Is tL: S:r:cst cf All WLa -.Ifcvc Totally To-tally Abstained: Frcm ati:?. ' ; S 0 ' 0 Q UITiaUE FEATURES OP ' nonmcoirs loxq fast. WORKED FOR 19 DAYS With- out tasting food. HAS LOST OXLY.S0 POUNDS in welgtt In fasting 27 days. , NQ WILL POWER has'been xe quired to abstain from eating. 0 To. fastfer twenty-seven days seems eMraordlnary. but to fast for that pe-' od' without feeling a pang "of hunger, afid without' collapsing seems even more remarkable. ' Tet this is what J. W. Morrison, piano tuner for, D. O. Calder's muslo house, has done and' shows no ill effects whatever.; what-ever.; , On April 16th Mr. Morrison while at dinner' partook of modicum of canned salmon' .an immediately became. violently-11L Others who ate the salmon were not affected in the slightest de-' de-' gree. Mr. Morrison called a physician who relieved hi pain. As soon as the nausea left him, Mr. Morrison went to his bed,' remaining until the next morning.' When he arose, he found, that he bad no appetite and accordingly did not eat- "Worked for Nineteen Days. Nor has he'eaten'1 since that time. For the first nineteen days of his fast Mr.' Morrison performed his' duties and continued to w,ork every day, feeling no ill effects. .Then he felt "slightly weaker and to - conserve his strength, desisted, only ' walking- about in the sunshine for exercise. ex-ercise. : . When he began his involuntary fast Mr... Morrison weighed 150 pounds. In the twenty-seven days he has lost exactly ex-actly thirty pounds, leaving his weight 120 pounds. His girth measured thirty-, six Inchest when he ceased to eat,- and , now. it is twenty-nine Inches, a loss of seven inches. Speaking of his experience Mr. Morrison Mor-rison said to The Telegram today: Has Net Been Hungry. "Though I have fasted for twenty-. twenty-. seveftii days I have never had a feeling ot"3Tunger or the slightest desire to par-like par-like of food. I have constantly had a -iTid taste in' rhy mouth and my tongue his been- coated.. They say, that the tongu .Js jthe mirror- of the stomach, and as jny tongue Is clearing up, I believe be-lieve I will be able to eat in a few days. "I have . lost thirty pounds weight, but I believe had I remained passive as others ,have . done I would have lost much less. Past Has Not Been Painful. I have! never suffered a moment's - pain, but feel, a little lassitude and some weakness. "No I have no feeling of gauntness, and ro- craving for anything. Of course I am a little thinner as I had a slight tendency toward corpulence before be-fore I quit eating. "My flesh 4s. firm, and my eyes are always bright and clear. I never have suffered '" headaches or any feeling, of dullness because of -.my fast. -I sleep as well as I ever have, and the only indication that everything is not as It should be is that I am a trifle weak; and somewhat thinner. f Hit Nerves Are Steady. j "I suffer no nervousness or irritability and do. not feel a particle . of alarm. . There Is absolutely no danger of my suffering either mentally or physically until I reach the skeleton period. I presume pre-sume physicians will take issue with roe on that point. "I believe everyone eats too much and gives his stomach too little rest. Two meals a day are enough for any-cne. any-cne. i . , "I go for a walk and take a sunbath each day and f these magnetize and strengthen me. '. "I would have you understand the peculiar feature of my case my fast i absolutely Involuntary, and is not l4iic continued by will power It is because be-cause I d not care te partake of food." |