During several months since the fast there have been the best physical health and mental condition, the weight having increased several pounds above the former average.
Mr. Ritter conducted this case in a blaze of publicity. He showed it to no less than seven physicians, some of whom were college professors, and one of them at near the close of the fast suggested that if food were not soon taken a sudden collapse would be the result. There seemed to have been less danger of this calamity on the forty-fourth day than on any other.
The reliability of the fast was so clearly evident that the leading papers of the city accepted it as authentic news and of the most startling kind. The Times gave several columns of its first page to an illustrated article.[1]
The accompanying illustration shows Miss Kuenzel on the forty-first day of her fast. She walked seven miles on this day without any signs of fatigue.
Copyrighted 1900, by Henry Ritter.
MISS ESTELLA F. KUENZEL,
FORTY-FIRST DAY OF FAST.
The following table of miles walked were measured from exact diary notes with bicycle and cyclometer after the fast was broken. The table gives the total sum of each day, walks being taken both afternoon and evenings of same day.
| Date. | Miles. | |
| October | 3 | |
| " | 4 | |
| " | 5 | |
| " | 6 | |
| " | 7 | |
| " | 8 | |
| " | 9 | |
| " | 10 | |
| " | 11 | |
| " | 12 | |
| " | 13 | 7/8 |
| " | 14 | |
| " | 15 | |
| " | 16 | |
| " | 17 | |
| " | 18 | |
| " | 19 | |
| " | 20 | |
| " | 21 | |
| " | 22 | 21/16 |
| " | 23 | |
| " | 24 | |
| " | 25 | 3 |
| " | 26 | 65/8 |
| " | 27 | 57/8 |
| " | 28 | 41/2 |
| " | 29 | 41/8 |
| " | 30 | 55/8 |
| " | 31 | rain |
| November | 1 | 63/4 |
| " | 2 | 8 |
| " | 3 | rain |
| " | 4 | 9 |
| " | 5 | 6 |
| " | 6 | 33/4 |
| " | 7 | 11/2 |
| " | 8 | 71/4 |
| " | 9 | 7 |
| " | 10 | 41/4 |
| " | 11 | 25/8 |
| " | 12 | 7 |
| " | 13 | 21/4 |
| " | 14 | 31/4 |
| " | 15 | 5 |
| " | 16 | 53/4 |
| 1121/16 | ||