Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1915 — FAST REDUCES HER WEIGHT [ARTICLE]

FAST REDUCES HER WEIGHT

Forty-five-Day Abstinence Helps Lady to Reduce Too Solid Flesh Some, Anyway. Stockton, Cal. Thoroughly convinced that overeating is one of the potent causes of obesity, Mrs. A. H. Barnes, a' well-known resident of this city, has just completed a 45-day fast. “I have been in poor health for some time,” said Mrs, Barnes, “and I undertook to get rid of my adipose Tissue. My weight for the last ten years ha§ been 220 pounds. I never varied. At the end of the fast I weighed 186 pounds. My height Is five feet two inches, and my age ia fifty-seven years.” During the entire 45 days, Mrs. Barnes says, she took no food whatever, and soon grew accustomed to doing without it. She broke the fast by eating an orange.