AMAZING DIET.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 278, 24 November 1938, Page 6

AMAZING DIET.

MILK AND ALCOHOL. I TAKES NO SOLID FOOD. 1 HARDENED TOPERS SHUDDER. (By Telejjrnph.—Own Correspondent.) CHKISTCHURC'H, this day. j At agricultural shows and vaudeville presentations the public gapes at the sort of man wli"> eats h plateful of pins, chews up the p;:t '. and washes the meal down with a gla-s of water, followed by the gia>.*. | Such swalh'wers of' glass, porcelain and sharp steel often compare them selves to the ostrich, which i» most unfair to the bird, for it is the ostrich'.. .misfortune to have a mental kink that i irresistibly compels it to peck at any ; thing bright and shiny. I And being a fairly sober bird —it ha< never had the opportunity of being any thing else —even an ostrich would goggle, as the barman does, at the evtraordinaiy ' diet of a certain well-known t'hristI church artisan. In late middle age li" j lives exclusively on a diet of milk and alcohol, and seems to thrive on it. When this defier of all dietetic rules comes out of a morning his first pnr- 1 chase is a quart bottle of milk, of which j he there and then swallows several mouthfuls. That is his breakfast. 'I hen j 1 he calls at a hotel —not any or the near-, ! est hotel, liecalise his queer taste has! j been the subject of j<»ciilar remark by I the barmen or the patrons in some hotels, I J and those he passes by. 1 * In the bar which he has chosen Christchurch's toughest breakfaster produces ' his bottle of milk and calls for it to be j reinforced. No barman has yet lwen able 'to follow his dietetic syst«un, but he seems to have one. of a sort. On a hot day he will add to the milk in his botttle a measure of Turn, a measure of whisky, a couple of measures of gin, and flavour the lot with a dash of cherry brandy. On a wintry day he 1 might ignore the gin for a double meas- ! ure of rum. or. if the mood is on him, he I might add a dasli of curacao. ereme de I menthe, vermouth, or some other exotic ■ flavour. Seasoned topers *hudder as they I hear his orders to the barman. j The ln>ttle of milk, thus reinforced, lis his sustenance for the day. If he is , thirsty a pull at the bottle quenches his thirst; if he is hungry two mouthfuls out of the bottle are his dinner, which he washes down with a sip or two—out | of the same bottle. No one has ever seen him take a mouthful of solid food. ' The vigour with which he carries his ' 1 50-odd years may be a g<«wl advertisej ment for milk. It cannot be a good advertisement for any sort of alcoholic , j beverage, because he uses hII of them.