en in death from starvation.'

"The patient herself became interested, Mr. Ritter says, and
evidenced great relief from abstinence from enforced periodic
feeding. Gradually a numb feeling of which she had complained as
affecting her internal organs, and which had been ascribed to
her illusions, left her, and she appeared to gain daily in
strength and brightness. Mr. Ritter's narrative proceeds:

"'On the eleventh day of her fast a walk was suggested, and she
covered about seven-eighths of a mile; on the twentieth day she
was taken for a carriage drive of three hours in the afternoon,
and in the evening she walked to church and back, a distance of
something more than two miles. From the twenty-third day she
took walks daily, excepting on October 31 and November 3, when
rain prevented. She visited friends and the theatre and the
Exposition, went to church several times, to the hospital where
she had been a patient--this on the thirty-fifth day of her
fast--and to the Drexel Institute on the thirty-ninth and
forty-second days. A table of dates shows that she walked from
two or three to six and eight and as high as nine miles a day
during the period of forty-five days that she abstained from
food, with a general increase of strength and cheer and no sign
of fatigue. Hunger sensations were marked on the forty-fourth
day and night, and on the morning of the forty-fifth day Miss K.
broke the fast by eating a poached egg and two slices of
buttered whole wheat toasted bread.

"'During her fast she was seen by seven physicians and medical
professors, President MacAlister and professors of the Drexel
Institute, and many others.'

"The young lady's weight at the beginning of the fast, Mr.
Ritter says, was one hundred and forty pounds, and just after
the meal with which she broke the fast she weighed one hundred
and twenty pounds. By December 15 she had regained nine pounds,
meanwhile eating one meal daily and sometimes two, with an
occasional light luncheon.

"Dr. Chase, medical director of the institution above referred
to, was visited on Saturday by a _Ledger_ reporter in regard to
the case of Miss K. He had been informed of her long fast and
of its results, and had seen Miss K. herself when she called at
the asylum on the thirty-fifth day of the fast. He said that
when