BRITAIN’S “PERFECT BOY’’

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 206, 12 July 1939, Page 4

BRITAIN’S “PERFECT BOY’’

! MEDICAL PROFESSION | ASTONISHED | . . ! Christopher Biosaquet, Elngland’s * 9s-\ ear-old “Perfect Boy” is a vegetarian. • I Five months' ago, Sir Leonard Hill, . the scientist, astonished the medical profession .by announcing that he had found a perfect boy whose daily diet* was no larger than that of a small monkey. j Christopher’s name was kept secret at that time. Now the boy i ; s 3in. taller, 71b. heavier, arid much stronger. '•> 5 On a diet of ail apple, a spoonful of honey, two spoonfuls of vege- - and a glass of water lie can .carry a hundredweight without puffing or panting. j “There, is nothing cranky about my methods of; feedipg Christopher,” his father told a reporter. - Christopher, r fair-haired, blue-eyed, with a roses-and-cveairi complexion and wiry .'frame, was tucking into a. second helping of fig pudding. “Greedy Day”

“Normally lie doesn’t eat starches like fig pudding,” his father explained. “but to-day is a special occasion because you are here. I’m afraid he is being rather greedy.”- ,; The- hoy’s breakfast that day was

one. apple. . Tlie lunch he shared with his father, mother, the' reporter and two other guests consisted of 'turnip pic, baked cabbage and fig pudding. _ “Once the Society for the Protection of Children sent a representative to see.the boy, because they thought he was being starved to death,” the father .said. “Instead of prosecuting me, the doctor for the society had lunch here and remained for three hours.” A