Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 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 has been 220 pounds. 1 never varied. At the end of the fast I weighed 186 pounds. My height is five feet two inches and my age is fifty-seven years.” During the entire 46 days, Mrs. Barnes says, she took no food whatever, and soon grew accustomed to doin* without it. She broke the fast by eating an orange.