Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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NO MORE FADS FOR HER. She Gives the Starvation Cure a Test And Finds'There Is Noth ing In It. "I did think there -really was something in this starvatio,n cure," said the wife in the Harlem flat. "and I also thought that you were going to help me fast all- during Lent. But' I had to make the test alone. Not a soul to help me excepting my cousin who came over to luncheon the day we sent out for a two dozen oyster fry and the man cheated us, because I had only twelve and my cousin had only eleven. 'But the magazines and papers have been full of the idea, and the so ciety news said society was starving itself on the best in the land, and as it was so cheap I didn't see why I shouldn't try it also, and yet I don't believe. any one in his right appetite could dQo it. "Now, the very first day of Lent I ate nothing but my three meals, and a cup of chocolate and some cake when the German woman on the first floor called me in because she had just made a beautiful apfel-studel, and she wanted me to try it,'and I ate seven of the cutest little cheese tarts you .ever saw. I understood her to say she had chocolate, but it was coffee, and as I left oft drinking that long ago, I! took only three cups. "So you see, it wasn't want of. ef fet that made me disgusted with this new cure. I felt worse than ever be fore while I was taking it. "There is a most dreadful and de pressing effect on the mind when you think of the abundance of good things that exist and you can't have any of them. Why do you know, that after I came up from Mrs. Mehltraeter's kaffee-klatsch that day I felt s for lorn and hungry that I just sent 'out an&got a pound of bonbons and sat down and ate every one of them. It spoiled my appetite for dinner, and you were so anxious about me that you really forced me to keep on eating even after I had taken my usual amount.1 "Then what did you do to help me fast ? You came home with. a 'glowing -description of a meal you had in Xitcheoek 's, or else you treated your-' self to a fruit lunch, bananas and or anges and once you said you ate a whole bag of dates. "It made .me so hung that I just co?uidn't help eating,- and.a ter dinner that night I simply had to send out to the delicatessen stoi-e for a Bis -marek herring and some roast hain, for I felt so faint that I knew I should) collapse unless .I got something sus taining.. "Yet every day I persisted in the. treatment, and I can't say it did me a particle of good. I *as hungry all: the. time,' and nothing that I ate ad, the least effect on my increasihg ap petite. I spoke to all my friends a.bout it, and they- all said, that when one is trying the .starvation eure it is necessary to eat only the plainest and most substantial food. That is why, we had roast squab twice in sue eession. - "Now, I don't know what more sac rifice could have bei demanded. Last .ngh-t all we had were .a few water crackers with a little aniehovy on them; a thin soup, a little salad--and 'wasn 't 'that the loyeliest p6rterhouse7 roast you ever saMw~ I thought.I could never 'get 'enough of it. "And 'the shad ! Ip hink thiat it is sinuply disgra'ofu an~d a bitter mock ery that wh,en' had 5:a't its very bes people are supposed no~t'to eat mueci. But I don't care. If I see nice plank ed shad, with the daintiest kind of stuffing and roe fried to a delicate brown, I am just going to eat, no matter how rigid I am in selecting my diet. "That was all, excepting a few trifling vegetables. Still, I must ad mit the asparagus w,as good. And liked the dessert, too: "And for breakfast, what was there?~ Cereals, that is all, excepting the usual coffee, muffins, broiled ham, poached eggs, country sausage and fruit. You would sit down and eat so hurriedly that you were finished before I was half through.* " Then you'd sit there . watching me and make me so ashamed that I wouldn't be able to eat, half as much as I should. Do you suppose I have 'little to do that I don't need some thing to help me do it?~ Of course, the result was that before the morn ing was half gone I had to have a cup of coffee and just a bite to last me until lunch time. "If you had had a strong and de termined will there would have been no trouble whatever. I wanted to try this starvation cure, and I stuck rig idly to it for the longest time. .But when we go to the theatre nothing~ will satisfy you, but a midnight sup per. I don 't believe in wasting mon e- and when I order a thing I am go-. ing to eat it. "If that is what happens when a per-on starves herself then I want none 1f it. You see what it las done for me.' I am going to drop it. It is nothing- but a fad anyway. Hence forth I shall eat like a rational be ing instead of feeding on bread and water like a prisoner. CURIOUS PLEASURES. They Were Costly as Well, Since the Price 'Was Death. New York Herald. The late King Ludwig of Bavaria, frequently ordered performances of opera for his -private delectation. but a Englishman. Curtis Donnythorpe. maintained for his personal . enter tainment a troupe of dancers, at one time one of the most noted organiza fions of the English music stage. Mr. Donnythorpe was an invalid and. being unable to gratify his pas sion for daicing in .his own person, engaged the Kelby troupe. He had a stage built. in his home, whereon they performed daily. It was his habit to suggest new steps and while encouragin.g them to'fresh endeavor one day he brought on the attack of heart disease which ended his life. He' was not the only 'one killed by his pleasures, for Theodore Botley, another Englishman, devoted his whole ;ife to' his stomach. H4 had agents throughout the world in search of new+ dishes,' and, that he might eat more frequently than nature .demand ed, it was his practice to . engage in manual labor for the purpose of get ting up an appetite. He had th largest library on the subject of eat ing that has ever been gathered to gether. -In the end he died of star vation because his,stomadh 'as un able to assimilate ordinary nourish ing foods. He had his complem,ent in Charles P. CasheL 'in whom the sense -of smell was- as keenly developed *as it is in a hunting dog. He reveled in the-rich e,t perfumes and in the erid lost his sense of smell completelW --through overin4ilgence in the perfume of a South American flower. This left him nable to: detet the odor of escaping as, and he was asphyxiated. The Russian Count Ivanovitch of he time of I'he first Emperor Nicho ls, died of fright at the, announce ent~ that emperor had declared his ntintion of visiting him, and sendin~g im to labor in the salt mnines, if 'he ~id not leve his bed to welcome him. or years he had never left his bed ~nd indulged in liquid foods as being he umore easy to -eat. .A Speedy Becovery. On~ one of the visits of the .Ameri an fleet to. English waters, Admirald Frben, now retired,, was in commalnd, with"' Captain Alfred T. .Mahan, the writer on - naval affairs as liis flag aptain. One morning. Captain!- Ma an camne to his admiral with an inivi sti6n to dine with a duke, which he ad received. "I can't accept this,'' said 'Cap-. ain Mahan; "as they forgot to invite Iou. "Lsould say you couldn't," grow ed - the admiral. "I'll answer for Whereupon the admiral wrote: "Admniral Erben,' United States, avy, regrets that Captain Mahan, his ag captain, cannot aeceepi the invi-. ation pf the Duke of Blank. Captain Mahan is on the sick list." An 'hour or so.later a* messenger rom the duke returned with invita We have -1 know tne bee and have pic them. .TH CM versible Disc tions for tie admiral and the captain. Wlherenpoii the admiral wrote again: -Admira! Erhen accepts with pleas ure the invitation for Captain Mahan and himself. He wishes also to ad vise the l)uke of Blank that he ha taken Captain Mahan off the sick list. OLD TREES FOR NEW CARS. Some Historic English Oaks 1 That .Have Gone Into Dining Cars., New York Times. Since the passing of the old style (r railroad car desigi that loaded every available space with scroll work and passementerie the car building companies are paying more attention to the perfection of details which makes the cost of the simyle interiors of the hygienically designed cars of the iew idea mount up to even higher figures 'than were paid for the old. One of the best known car-building concerns has just completed two din ers that are panelled with the wood of one of the famous English oaks of Rockingham. A few years ago the Watson family. owners of R'eking ham Park, were compelled to sell some of the old trees 'to raise money. Twenty-seven of the largest of the an cient oaks were cUt and sold to the American ear builders. The tree which fur'nished wood for the diners men tioned was nearly eight feet in dia meter, and within its bulk sawyers found relies of three periods of Eng lish history. The first find was a flat tened musket ball under six inehes of new wood. It had evidently be longed to a type of gun used in the sight'eenth century. Deeper in the trunk the workmen came on a Match lock slug. which the antiquarians said was of the romiwellian period. Most interesting of all was an ancient gate hook of wrought iron.~ imbedJed almost at the tree's heart, which must have been driven home when the eight foot trunk had been little bigger than post timbqr. Experts said the growth. of wood over the iron had taken at least eight ceituries in its making. Mark Twain- and King Leopold. Le Xiemne Sieele, of Brussels. Some tinie ago an American, Mark Twain, publ.ished a pamphlet,. in which our king was shamefully at tacked and insulted. -Shortly afterward the king received through the mail a copy of the publi-. ation, together with a letter which read as follows:: ''My Loid, I beg to draw, your .at tention upon the enclosed booklet, showing the awful thingsan Amreri an pamphleteer has dared to write. on your aecount. If your Majetty ill consent to pay me $1,000 I will take up the fight for you and answer the' misereant in good style.' -The king read this communication tehtively .anid then, handing it to his aide-de-eamp, who was working with him, 'said: ''Rathei; high in America, soap. for whitewashing the .guiltless, rather high!" The- wouild-be ''whitewasher'' nev r' received an .answer. .TosBuisy to Work. The way to command a good price is to nevei- cheapen ,one's-,stock in trade. At least.that ist the principle adpted by an:Ohio justice of peace. his gentlemnang says a writer in 'the Phiaelphia) Ledger-, has missed his alling. Given his opportunity, he would soon make a name among the umorists. ~een in the Il t. We have :ked the Cha ATTANOOOA REVEl Plow built' An attorney in a neighborinz city wrote him to inquire about a Judg mient that had been entered against a clit-11L. He iiclosed a stamp for re ply. Several days later he received a p4)stal card bearing this message: ''Your inquiry received. I bef) to inform you that my time is- mighty valuable just now. Corn cutting is most nigh here, polities.is sizzling and the bass fishing is fine.- It you would 1 inelose a dollar bi it might stimulate me some. I paid $2 once to a lawyer for answering a question, and all he said was No.' " Commercial Machiavellianism and Its Cure. There has been a good deal said late ly about 'Business is business," 'the end justifies 'the 'means," "6the bat tle to the strong." and ui that sort of talk. Ir is likely that few have realized how far this dangerous spirit has been ear-. ing us--not in the bus iness world only, but in every-day life. The recent exposures of fiaan cial methods have shown you per haps, that, a sorry system of ethics prevails 'down town," but has it made you search your own conscience more closely? Miss Tarbell's "Com mercial Machiavellianism" in the March 'Mc6lure 's brings the lesson home to all of us, the little fellows as well as the heads of the big cor porations. There is something here to set tlie money grabbers thinking. Miss Tar bell tells the story of Machiavelli and his writing of "The Prince," which has made his name a by-word ' of scheming and clever lying' Then she draws the parallel between commer cial methods of today, and the diplo matic;eireuities of the 16th century Florence. Miss Tarbell kriows both, periods, that of the Medici in Italy and'of our own day in America; and. she tells you clearly how modem cap tains of industry have achieved their success by following the rules of 'The Prince,." step by step, more re morselessly even than the Italian Despot. But it was a significant fact in the life of Signor .Machiavelli, as the writer points out, that instead of beirng raised to great honor and pow er by the Medicis, for whom he wrote the treatise;. versatile, brilliant,, in siriuating as he was, he was left ,to end'his life in loneliness and without power. And herein, says Miss Tar bell, lies our safety. ''The truth is," she adds, ''the Ma chiavellian formula carries ..:its own~ NOTICE. EBefore letting the contract for your new build-, ing see W. T. Liv ingston. B.es t Work. Lowest prides. Lack Box No. 59., New berry, S.C. OV VIPLEMENT. handled all ttanooga aft ISIBLE DISO PLOW death potion with it. It cannot stand the 1ight... .... Today. as four hun dired years ago. state it bluntly and men disown it. Why was Machiavel li repudiated by Italy as snii as The Prince' was published? ...... They are willing to practice the ftor mula as long as they can avoid hear ing it; those who profited by their sueess have been willing to support them so long as they could deaden their intellects by repeating 'Judge not, lest ye be judged,' but when it came to defending the Machiavellian creed aloud, they dared not do it. And herein lies our safety. The truth, nothing but the truth, ugly and cruel and relentless as it may be, is the cure of Comercial Machiavellianism. Starving to Death. Because her stomach was so weak ened by useless drugging that she could not eat, Mrs. Mary H,Walters, of St Clair, Columbus, Q., was literally starving to death. She writes: "My stomach was so weak frbm useless drugs that I could not eat, and my nerves so wrecked thAt I could not sleep; and not before I was given up to die I was induced totry Electric Bitters; with the wonderful result that im provement began -at once, and a com plete cure followed." Best health Tonic on earth. 50c. Guaranteed by W. E .Pelham & Son, druggist. Have you ever noticed thit the man who boasts is always waiting for some one -to give him a boost? The Breath of Life. ,It's a significant fact that the strong est amaI of its size, the gorilla, also has the largest lungs. Powerful lungs meang poweRful creatures. . How to keep the breathing organs right should be man's chiefest study. Like thous ands of others:, Mrs Ora A Stephens, of Port Williams, 0, has learned.how to do this: She writes: "Three bot tles of Dr. King's New Discovery stopped my cough. of ..two. years. and cured- me of what my friends thought consumption. 0, .is grand for throat and lung troubles." Guaranteed by W.- B. Peham & Son, druggist. Price 50. and $1:00 Trial bottle free SAVEHEE Amorfg ,the variotua R E SOL U T1ION S forig the year 1906 don't forget to resolve1 to Save Every 'Penny that you can. There fore You Must Bujy Good Goods.CHEAP. This you can only ' ac complish'when trading at 0. 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