SUCCI NEW VOCATION.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 255, 21 July 1908, Page 10

SUCCI NEW VOCATION.

; r , 1— •' FASTING MAN'S EXPERIENCES. Tho Paris correspondent of the LoudoP / , "Standard," writing on May 29, states:— V It has been discovered to-day that tho profession of "faster"—if so one may call'a man who gains his living by fasting—is not a paying one. Succi, one of the most famous members of the profession, has just been compolled to seekwork, and has been given a post as nurse, at tho asylum at Nanterre, a few miles out of Paris. Succi, although not so well paid as before, is now ablo to eat to the full. Ho will now oat, smile, talk, and joko, which he would never do wjicn fasting,'as he forbade himself the slightest unnecessary movement. His favourite say-, ing ty-day, said'with an ironic, sftiile, is, "Fasting does not feed the faster." Nevertheless, ho still dreams of organising a large tour to demonstrate his famous capabilities. ' Succi was one of the most famous men in France about twenty years ago'. ' The American, Thinner, had created a sensation 1),," starving forty days. He was.not long without his imitators, of whom Merlatti and • Succi wero the most famous. Succi was soon left alone in the field, liis rival having killed himself.. Strangely enough, it was not too little, but too' much food that killed him.. eaten too hearty a-meal after oiio of his long fasts, and..indigestion* did - tho rest. For_ several years Succi toured France. He hired a public building, -mid, on the payment of a small sum, pedplo ctiiild pass through and see him. He usually fast-ntf during thirty or:'forty days. His first tour brought him nearly £300; - This was not'so bad; but Succi remembers I rather disconsolately that his manager received .mop.- > linn four times that, amount. The lasi lour brought only £20 when all expenses had been paid. Succi says that of last- ivraly years,lie has- Spent '.fivc.-liv.mß: or muS'im • morn.than cold water,,with a few,-.drops of emon, juice in ft;;