The Waxahachie Daily Light

FASTING, HE WINS
BET WITH DEATH
GENEVA, Ohio,
September 25.- Menu: breakfast-spring-water; lunch-water from the spring; dinner--more spring-water.
That was the diet Dr. H. G. Huffman, Youngstown, Ohio, oculist, lived on for 47 days and he regained his health when physicians said he would die.
His first fast last year--was on a bet with death; his second--this year amounting to 31 days--was merely to fulfill a policy he intends to carry out as long as he lives. This policy is:
"Eat nothing one month a year and feel like you were up in the clouds the other eleven."
"A year ago five Youngstown physicians decreed I had but a short time to live," said Dr. Huffman. "I concluded that since I had to die anyway I'd do it in the woods I loved."
The doctor's camping is on the Grand river near here.
"Once out here," he continued, "I decided to take the long chance to quit eating--I won the bet. It wasn't so hard to fast as one might suppose. After the first five days I wasn't hungry in the ordinary sense of hunger. When I felt my kind of 'hunger' I'd walk to the spring and make a square meal of a few cups of water.
One gradually becomes weak and faint, but not a sickly or dizzy faintness. One doesn't think of food very much. While fasting I am unable to sleep more than four hours per day. Normally, I sleep eight.
After ten days of fasting my pulse could be counted at 100 yards but after the fast a week of good meals rounded me out."
Dr. Huffman is in the pink of health. Although his fast is ended but this year he says he will remain in his camp until the cows come home.