Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1920 — HAS GREAT FAITH IN COCONUT [ARTICLE]

HAS GREAT FAITH IN COCONUT

German Who Has Tried It Declares -Jt-to-Be-the Ideal Food for Sustenance of Man. One of the strangest characters in the world is Auguste Bnglehardt, a young German who lives on the island of Kabakon, in the Genpan New Guinea territory. He exists entirely on the coconut, and sleeps on a bed of sand. . Englehardt is a singularly handsome man of about thirty-five, possessing great wealth’and a charming personality. He is known as the “Apostle of the Coconut,” on ,account of the doctrine he teaches that the coconut is the original food of man, arid should" continue to be so, as all other foods are responsible for the bad passions .in the heart and mind of man. The “Apostle” claims to have over 500 disciples tn America, and now the war is over he intends to leave his and come back to th® old world and proclaim his teachings. He Isalso a “sun worshiper," living entirely in the open air, and adopting the simple dress of the natives, consisting merely of a “lava-lava,” or loin cloth, and when in full dress, that is, when he receives visitors, this attire is completed by the addition of a wrist watch and a walking stick.