FASTING WOMAN IN GLASS CASE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17871, 12 June 1926, Page 8

FASTING WOMAN IN GLASS CASE.

SAID TO BE PRINCESS, WITH WONDERFUL ENDURANCE. BERLIN, May 1. LADY FISHER fasted fortytwo days, in the seclusion of an English nursing home, for health. But here, in Berlin, fasting in public is becoming a means of earning a livelihood. For weeks a young “ hunger artist ” named Jolly has been lying motionless in a big glass case in a Friedriehstrasse restaurant. for the amusement of an endless stream of morbid people in search of a thrill, who pay sixpence each for the privilege to walking past his transparent prison. Last night a formidable rival entered the field against him in the person of a Russian princess, Tatjana von Karbanoff, a young woman whom the doctors describe as nothing short of a medical prodigy. Princess Tatjana discovered her remarkable power of enduring hunger when, after the Revolution, she fled from Moscow across the Steppes to China. To make her present fast the more sensational she is being suspended in a glass cubicle from the high central dome of the circus busch. Like Jolly, she will be under constant supervision, day and night, of a specially appointed guard for the whole period of her imprisonment.