Show A MILK PUNCH DIET Mrs Mary Ann Rhoades of Greenpolnt N Y Lives on One for Many Years Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch NEW YORK March Neighbors of Mrs Mary Ann Rhoades a widow about fifty years old who lives at Greenpoint say she has taken no food except milk punches for the last nine or ten years Mrs Keeler who lives in the same house says I have lived In this house with Mrs Rhoades for the last five years and during that time I have been in her rooms and she in mine every day I can positively say she has not oaten aVnorselof substantial food In all that time Indeed so far as I can remember she has not eaten anything the last nlneor ten years 1 have known her and her husband since they came to Greenpoint about twelve years ago Soon after his death Mary Ann was taken with throat trouble which became serious that she was advised to go to Bellevue hospital At the hospital her throat trouble became so serious that she was unable to eat anything To keep life in her they gave her milk punches After she had recovered and had returned to her homo she was still unable to swallow solid food although weeks had passed since the operation She has been continuing the milk punches ever since I have often seen her attempt at-tempt to eat and every effort would almost throw her into a spasm or faint She has never even drunk coffee in all this time Her milk punches are made of a quart of milk and 10 cents worth of whisky This Is her breakfast dinner supper taken a sip at a time A physician told Mrs Rhoades that the operation opera-tion had affected the coats of her stomach and she might live ten years longer on milk punch All of Mrs Rhoades neighbors who were seen told the same story about the milk punch diet They spoke of her as a quiet hard working woman |