Prolonged Fasting
Ax cxtraoulinary case of prolonged fasting is reported from Vienna. On December 22nd a peasant woman from Opergrabem went to receive &omo money which was owing to her at a small village a few miles distant. The amount was not paid ; and Iho woman had only four kvuetzers m her pocket, with which she bought two rolls of bread. On the way home she was caught in a heavy snowstorm, and took shelter in a small hut in a vineyard. The storm continuing-, she decided to spend the mghfc where she was, and divested herself of some of her upper garments to wrap up her feet). The next monung when she awoke she could not rise, being partially paralysed by the cold. Her cries for help wore unheard, and it was only on January 11th that she was found by a woodcutter's wife, having been twenty days without food.
A contemporary, describing 1 'a dance afc a counUy village' in this neighbourhood, isnys:— "Thd gorgeous ' strings of glass beads glistened on tlie- heaving- bosoms of the village belles like polished rubies resting on the surface' ( of the 1 warm- apple-dump-lings 1 . '' Did you ever?
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 250, 28 March 1888, Page 4
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196Prolonged Fasting Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 250, 28 March 1888, Page 4
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