ONE MEAL A DAY.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXI, Issue 12189, 10 June 1907, Page 7

ONE MEAL A DAY.

One meal a day is enough for a worn an. This 15 what Mi^ Wilhamina Butnott and Mhs Ginevra Kalkenburg assert, and having practised this selfdenying ordinarne for something over a decade, they have a right to an opinion. Wilhamina is 40, (iincvra is 43, but neither is said to look a day over 25, and the two, though not related, have lived together like sisters for twenty yeaps. These singular persons walk five miles to work every morning, work eight hours at some manual labour in ■ the city of Pasadena, and then walk five miles back, v. dine on whole grains, fruits, raw vegetables (skins and all), and nuts. Bread they consider a curse to humanity. Eggs the 1 - look on with acute suspicion. Potatoes are dropsical, diseased growths. Meat is a crime. Salt, pepper, sugar, and spices ? Never ! There are no plates or dishes or glasses on the table. The fruits, nuts, and grains, which are all they have to eat anyway, are served in baskets, and eaten (probably) with the fingers, while not even water is drunk, except between meals. The repast finished, Ginevra and W'illiamina go to bed at once, for they regard exercise aftei a hearty mcai as a most baneful practice, and from dark to daylight they sleep on cots near open windows. In their quest after nature these "girls" have discarded many superfluities of feminine apparel, and have built for themselves a charming one-room bungalow at a cost of £70. People laugh at them, but they lain'h back, and from all appearances Wilhamina and dinevra have the best ol it — in spite of their names.

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