Show I WILL NOT EAT FOR SIXTY DAYS DAYSI I Arthur Vt Vii VA l let t r Has His Not Touched Food ia iB i Weeks i 4 J JAIR AIR AND WATER AUtE E TARES TAKES HAS HA LOST LOft OVIR 1 i PAST FAS u i 4 Although no food fond has haa passed his bl lips lip for weeks Arthur Van Meter of L I street t U Is I gaining in health and nd strength every day days daya ago alo he began a fast and since that time he has taken taun nothing In the shape hape of food The only nour now nourishment he gets ts is I water and 4 he lie ap appear appears p pears pear to be doing doin better t than many man people who eat hearty bearty meals mela per perI day He experts expects to continue the fast I I i I I I I I Arthur Van Meter Keter sixty days id lit order to overcome a se Sc severe severe Score vere ore attack attak of dropsy drop y The day before he entered upon his remarkable fast fat Mr Van Meter eter nude made hi bl his will win and nd attended to other othor bust busi bu business l lne ness ners ne 8 matters which people are apt to arrange arra e when they are preparing for their own funeral These arrange arrangements monte ments were ere made on OD the Us advice of the family physician who assured the pa patient patient tient that his bla hours were numbered This led Mr Van Meter to te try the ex cx experiment experiment of going without food He has baa lost considerable bIe flesh during d the fiat fast but otherwise be he is healthy and strong tron and aDd his bIa mind is Ie acute fo II ta Bat et No I dont crave food any more be he said aid yesterday For or the first Ant three days It was very nrY had bard but after that I had bad no appetite for food At first lint I 1 Could not sleep but now I go 0 to bed bedat bedat bedat at I C and sleep soundly until t I the next morning During urla the day I take a nap hap p for tor an now AOP I walk around the house howie and when the U weather is Ie all an right I 1 take a drive I drink what whet water ater 1 I want bat I get set no other nourishment I 1 am getting stronger ever every eye 7 day dat and ad I 1 never n er Left felt sowell so sowell well in my m life I Mr Van Meter Mettr is a member of the firm Inn of ot Van Meter e A k Co the nurserymen When to 11 his h rut fast be he Weighed pounds ponda Today he be Weighs iha lIla His 91 fade face has a good pod color coI nd eta to continue C h ills kIa ne pounds He e wears the cloths e ebe he be wore when he be was wu a large man maji and the effect is about the sense same e eI as U I might be he expected V if they were hung hong over a post I TAp Tor Timo TimEa f He lie was aa no so tat rat that 11 bf eWd t iI cross I his hie knees but after fter a week w wee fast fut fastIng futI big Ing I he performed the feat t very Yet eu ens easily I ily II It Ita was the t time tIlDe he ba had bad crossed IMd them in t rears an a 1 he was U so II surprised d and at t hl ba his newly discovered W l t t the the th he practiced sH aU the relt r st of t noon The be hardest part of the th came caine at the end of the third td day t lie Ia was wall taken with hd he INlet had h craving for pd H g j but he sen passed sway away i ad d thea th thI he has experienced no a HI Ill estta He I loses now on an te pounds pound n nI I of flesh dally daily at e first the low Io was greater Physicians kaVO advised him sot not to continue tub m fast fer his bla I weight in is reduced so to n I pounds but he be that he be can cantony gR tony more pound wis of hem hi iII Is reduced to t impounds oe p ma Bethinks lie He thinks it will vii m require four works week for fer this U re reduction reduction dut n For Por the first lint few fe days of ot his hilt fast Cut he h was very nervous had and the a at Ort t of his bla body during d sleep were ware painful Now he sleep al an pete peace peacefully fully as a child claUd As A soon s the 1 strange fast at is I over 0 h he nJ diet 19 for far farto two to weeks on liquids Use rood butt will lIl 11 II gradually be made more mo solid Physicians Up Tip I He used to wheeze lIke Ilk an asthmatic a tic Any ny exertion maSs bI bin olm PUtt and ind he was wa also 1110 trouble u tr with a tough fough prevented vented ct Mm from frO sleeping These TheM difficulties have all aU disappeared An eastern t m relative insisted upon hi lal hip trying the fat fast after k lie other ethers had oad been bee notified that Vt Meters physician had yen D up p his Ms case eue as hopeless His fast fit ww woe broken an only one once when be lost loR flesh so a fut fat that it frightened him He Re tn some seine food at the end of the twelfth day but It H distressed tru dl him so 10 that he the fast fat and nd expects t a keep kI it up an un until til the th organs affected toy by the I I condition have resumed their normal sine sise and Dd functions When this hap up happens happens pens pena he be will be notified by mature Ire In Inthe InI inthe I the shape of a craving caving era for tor food 4 Until this tb craving CrR vine returns he be will continue the fast fa t unless his b weight I taPs below the th pound lImit 1 |