News Advocate | 1916-02-25 | Page 6 | Food Minimum

food minimum irhe irreducible minimum for living expenses seems to bavo have been rained by roger crab the hermit who lived at near Ux udbridge bridge about 1641 he began to restrict himself to a vegetarian diet avoiding even butter nd cheese from roote roots he got a diet cun consisting slating chlell of broth made from turnip leaves and thickened thicken cd with bran and he finally resorted to dock leaves v 2 4 grass with a bran pudding as an an occasional delicacy lie ile drank nothing but water and lived on 03 three far things a week until ho he died in 1680 at the age of sixty london chronicle