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Show Hew fork lan Still Eating km His Health Has Improved on His Diet Which He Claims Is a-Tonic. a-Tonic. BROOKLYN,, Oct. 22. "Yes, sir, I'm still eating-gross and I feel 100 per cent better for it. My health has improved wonderfully and I no longer endure the misery of a disordered stomach. I tell you there Is a sort of tonic In grass that has greater effect on the stomach and has done me more good than all the doctors' prescriptions put together. You can't bpnt it, and I would advise any man who has been a. martyr to dyspepsia dyspep-sia as I have been, to lose no time In starting a diet of grass, and he will be amazed at the good it will do him." Ate Grass for Two Months. It was Frank Taylor, the aged native of New Hampshire,, who has a delicatessen delica-tessen stor'o at 5024 ; Fifth avenue, who was speaking. "Mr. Taylor began to cat grass a couple of months ago, and today he Is looking much Improved. He says he lsi not, bothered any more with Indigestion, and .ho Is feeling so good that he Intends to go to New Hampshire In a short, while on a hunting hunt-ing trip and enjoy some of the sport he roveled In when a youth fifty years ago It hurts the old man's feelings to make fun of him when he says he lives on grass 'and water. He is very sincere sin-cere when he talks and' his mind Is. so made up that his health Is being improved im-proved by the diet that he really Is looking much better than he did two months ago. He has been made an offer of-fer of ?100 a week to lecture in a Fourteenth Four-teenth street museum in Manhattan, but it has been declined, as ho says he desires no notoriety, and he has enough money to keep him In his old age. Likes Clover Also. Mr. Taylor also says that It is his Intention In-tention to buy a farm in Brentwood, N. H., his old homestead, which he will lay out in grass and clover, so that he can have an Inexhaustible supply to draw from. He still gets his dally supply sup-ply from Sunset park, whore It Is gathered gath-ered by his pretty daughter Minnie. The young woman makes daily trips to the park and plucks the grass, bringing it home In a paper bag. Her father eats It with great relish. At first It was a temptation for him to resist the numerous delicacies In his store, but knowing the misery he endured en-dured whenever he Indulged, he was compelled to desist. His palate has now become so accustomed to the juice of the grass that nothing tempts him any more, and he considers he has taken a new lease on life. The old man's spirits spir-its have been buoyed up exceedingly, and he is getting as frisky as a youth of IS. Due to Plain Grass. "Say, young man, have you ever had a stomach that felt like a balloon, and as If you wero going to bust any minute? min-ute? Well, If you ever had the experience, experi-ence, you know what I have suffered. But those days of torture have passed, and plain grass did It; nothing but ordinary or-dinary grass out of the park." The old man's face brightened as he talked. His wife and daughter at times were worried over him, for they had been warned by their physician never to leave him alone when the spells would come on. They have no trouble now, for ho seems to be a new man, and they both say grass did It. Santos, the original Nebuchadnezzar, is over in the museum drawing a salary, but old Mr. Taylor says ho eats grass for his health and not to get a salary. The old man is well Informed on natural history and can give a long argument oil the anatomy anat-omy of the ancients and their kinds of food. He has a stock of books in hla place, nnd he Is always willing to talk about his younger days In old New Hampshire. |