FLETCHERISM IN PRACTICE.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14155, 18 April 1916, Page 5

FLETCHERISM IN PRACTICE.

Amsterdam, April 16

Food mastication drill is the latest German weapon against. England's ■starvation plan. Accordingly the "Kolnische Volkszeituiig" has started a discussion on the question how to induce the people to eat less. It exhorts its readers to take heart. , It publishes a schoolmaster's letter showing how he drilled his pupils to eat unbuttered black bread so slowly that hunger was satisfied with a quarter the usual amount. He .preferred it without butter.