The Willimantic Journal

Three Years of Skimmed Milk,

Louis Herbst, who is one of the best known Germans in South Jersey, celebrated the other day his third anniversary of a skimmed milk diet. Mr. Herbst is a large, finely formed man of about fifty years of age, and weighs about two hundred pounds. Three years ago he was afflicted with dyspepsia and kidney troubles and was advised by his physician to try a diet of skimmed milk exclusively. He tried the remedy for a couple of months and was so benefited by the diet that he determined to try it for a year. At the expiration of the latter period Mr. Herbst's health was almost perfect. Far from becoming thin or emaciated from the long continued use of skimmed milk, his form was, if possible, even more rotund than before, and by the advice of his doctor he decided to adopt skimmed milk as his exclusive diet permanently. For three years he has eaten or drank absolutely nothing but the article named—not even water—and declared to his friends who visited him yesterday that he proposed to continue skimmed milk and dispense with steaks, bread and butter and beer for the rest of his life.--Philadelphia News.