(in an Toterview Special to the "North-China Daily News")
WI, VERYTHING I eat has been proved by some writer or other to be 2 deadly poison.
Everything I don't eat has been proved indispensable to life."
Mr. Shaw spoke sitting in the garden of his home a, Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire. The amazing vitality he shows at 78 may quite possibly be due in part to his meatless diet, and efforts have been made for years to discover of precisely what that diet consists One. previous interviewer after another has tried his hardest to What is the probe the mystery, and a succession telumphs? signitcance of their} Of editors has urged Mr. Shaw to "What is there surprising about name his own price for a signed them at all? Miss Johnson did not article unveiling the facts. But he fy to Australia; q machine did, and has declined to unveil them until she hung on to ft and steered it. now. He said: "It you look in the day's paper '"E only mislead people when you will learn. that several women tell them what Teat or don't eat. had babies yesterday without any My diet and habits might not suit help from machines. Prove to me them; and I don't eat the same that a man has achieved that amaz-things every day, except, perhaps, ing and arduous feat, and I will sit at breakfast, at which T eat either up and discuss the ' significance of oatmeal porridge liberally dosed hig triumph very seriously. with butter, or some drier cereal, [hear that another effort is being with half a' grapefruit, and a cup of made to get you to go to the United Instant Postum to keep up the States and lecture. "Are you going? tion of a cup of warm, brown have seen a good many English with mille and sugar in it, celebrities after they had returned eat three meals a day, and am from lecturing in America, and they convinced that T should be better all looked ike broken-down cab-with two, In spite of a remark that hag pen quoted, Tent salads and fruit, horses. At my age, the one-night-stands would finish me.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.