LIVING ON ORANGES FOR FORTY YEARS.
Thk Baroness de Bachlien, who was one of tho most beautiful women of her time, and a great social celebrity in Paris under Louis Philippe and tho Second Empire, lived to a very advanced ago, and to tho last was distinguished for her handsome appearance. For forty years of her lifo this lady never took anything but three dozen oranges, a glass of wine, and two slices of broad a day. Her diet was never changed, a dozen oranges for breakfast, a dozen in the middle of the day, and the third dozen at dinner time. Notwithstanding this frugal fare, the Baroness was celebrated for hor hospitality, and tho magnificent dinners she gave to her friends. Mdmo. do Bachlieu died at Monaco in 1878, considerably over* eighty years of ago,
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2805, 5 July 1890, Page 6 (Supplement)
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136LIVING ON ORANGES FOR FORTY YEARS. Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2805, 5 July 1890, Page 6 (Supplement)
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