Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-05-15 | Page 4 | Long Fast of an Artist

I LONG FAST OF AN A N ARTIST Charles Spencer SIJe Follows the Example of Upton n Sinclair and Holds Out Days Special Cable to London May IS The recent fast fasting fastIng fastIng ing experiment of ot Upton Sinclair which created widespread interest has been eclipsed in value In length of ot time by Charles Spencer an artist of Kent Mr S Spencer suffered from an ab nb abnormal abnormal normal appetite no meal seemed to tos satisfy s him At length lenith he lIe began a diligent study stud of the theory tI eory of fast fasting ing jug as a cure then he practiced it for days das dasIn In speaking o ot his experience Mr Spencer said You may take it from me that fasting for health will be generally adopted Well known doctors whom I meet are taking it up Ibis Itis no new theory The Greeks and Egyptians 2000 years back were keen advocates advocates cates of fasting tasting I set out with the thorough experiment On the first day the pangs of or hunger were keen enough so 80 were they on the second day On the third day there seemed a a little relief and from that day onward I experienced no hunger whatever I r continued my work as an artist doing some light gardening and walk walkIng walking walkIng Ing as exercise At the end of the day hunger lunger began to re reassert reassert reassert assert itself That is the stage where many man festers make a mistake They determine to fast for a certain num number number number ber of days das and even if the craving for food returns after a certain pe period period nod they continue to fast When eri I felt the hunger returning I immediately drank some fruit juice and continued to live on this for two days Thursday On night I had nty first square meal It Is a grave error for tor any anyone one to fast who has not a thorough scientific knowledge of the subject This experiment of mine he con concluded concluded eluded is only the beginning of more moro on a wider scale and my m wife Is to join me as welL