h the dentist, and he asked me how the teeth worked which he
had fixed before. I said to him: "I haven't tried them yet."

"'You can imagine the look of surprise on his face. When I told
him that I was fasting, and had been since he had seen me
before, he showed the greatest concern, and said he did not
think I could go on with the dental work on account of the
weakness of my nerves. He solicited me to go out and have just a
bite of something. I refused, of course, and he continued the
work. I visited him on two days after that until he had finished
the work.

"'The men in my employ were greatly concerned about me, and
thought I would break down. I used to weigh every night before
leaving the office, and as they saw my constant wearing away
they became more and more frightened, and finally appointed a
committee to wait on me. The committee was headed by my manager,
who begged me to eat. He brought along some fine ripe cherries
to tempt me. I told him I would not eat them for one thousand
dollars, for I was interested thoroughly in the fast by that
time and would not have stopped.

"'After that they made no more attempts to stop the fast; but my
friends all shook their heads, and said that when I started in
to eat again I would find I was without a proper stomach.

"'On the twenty-eighth day the hunger began to come on again,
and I began to eat under the advice of Dr. Carpenter. On the
twenty-ninth day I drank a little bouillon, and afterward from
day to day increased the amount of food to the normal. I
suffered no inconvenience.'

"Mr. Rathbun says he is a firm believer in the no-breakfast
system of hygiene advocated by Dr. Dewey, and that neither
himself, his wife, nor any of the servants in his house eat
breakfast, and as a result all are remarkably well. His two
sons, one of whom was graduated at Harvard in 1896, and a
second, who is still at Harvard, practise the no-breakfast
system.

"Just before beginning his fast Mr. Rathbun ordered a suit of
clothes at his tailor's. He did not go for it until the end of
his long fast. Being something of a practical joker, besides a
man of great nerve, he walked into the tailor-shop and let the
tailor try his new suit on to see if it was all right.

"When he slipped on the coat the tailor stood aghast. There was