. I think the matter ought to be looked into
more fully. Mr. Ritter could not have been with the patient at
all times. It is a remarkable thing that she should have kept up
and had the strength reported, unless she had some food. He may
have been deceived in that.'"

During several months since the fast there have been the best physical
_health_ and mental condition, the weight having increased several
pounds above the former average.

Mr. Ritter conducted this case in a blaze of publicity. He showed it to
no less than seven physicians, some of whom were college professors, and
one of them at near the close of the fast suggested that if food were
not soon taken a sudden collapse would be the result. There seemed to
have been less danger of this calamity on the forty-fourth day than on
any other.

The reliability of the fast was so clearly evident that the leading
papers of the city accepted it as authentic news and of the most
startling kind. _The Times_ gave several columns of its first page to an
illustrated article.[1]

The accompanying illustration shows Miss Kuenzel on the
forty-first day of her fast. She walked seven miles on this day
without any signs of fatigue.

[Illustration: Copyrighted 1900, by Henry Ritter.

MISS ESTELLA F. KUENZEL,

FORTY-FIRST DAY OF FAST.]

The following table of miles walked were measured from exact diary notes
with bicycle and cyclometer after the fast was broken. The table gives
the total sum of each day, walks being taken both afternoon and evenings
of same day.

Date. Miles.

October 3
" 4
" 5
" 6
" 7
" 8
" 9
" 10
" 11
" 12
" 13 7/8
" 14
" 15
" 16
" 17
" 18
" 19
" 20
" 21
" 22 2-1/16
" 23
" 24
" 25 3
" 26 6-5/8
" 27 5-7/8
" 28 4-1/2
" 29 4-1/8
" 30 5-5/8
" 31, rain
November 1 6-3/4
" 2 8
" 3 rain
" 4 9
" 5 6
" 6 3-3/4
" 7 1-1/2
" 8 7-1/4
" 9 7
" 10 4-1/4
" 11 2-5/8
"