MUSSOLINI’S MEAL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10299, 7 January 1927, Page 5

MUSSOLINI’S MEAL

GLASS CF MILK FOR BREAK*

FAST

f ‘MY SLEEP IS LIKE A BABE'S”

DICTATOR’S DESCRIPTION OF

AVERAGE DAY

LONDON, Jan. 5. “My mastery over my body and brain goes on all day and all night. My sleep is like a babe’s. I could sfeep through the worst tumult, as I did in war-time ’bombardments when 15 minutes off duty.” Tills is a passage in the first, of a series of intimate articles written by Signor Mussolini for the British United Press.

Descriptive of his average day he says: “I can concentrate on one subject to the exclusion of all others, and switch from one to another with the same concentration.

“I retire at midnight and *i ise at 7, giving strict orders not to be awakened except for bad news. This was Napoleon’s rule. I do not remain in bed a minute after the first yawn. Lying in lied breeds stagnation and demoralises self-discipline. I then shave myself. I am ’anti-whiskers’. Whiskers are a sign of decadence. When the decline of Roman glory began, whiskers came into style. Fascism replaces them with clean-shaven youth attired in riding breeches. “I go to breakfast. I wonder sometimes what an Englishman, American, or German would call it? There is no fruit, toast, ham and egg, or coffee,- it consists only of a glass of milk taken without company. It would be an honor eve'n for my own brother to be invited to the table. It is then 7.30 o’clock, and I am ready for my morning canter.” —A. and N.Z.C.A. “I take LIFE ON THE RUNNING JUMP.” “EATING A MINOR FUNCTION.” ROME, Jan. 5. “My day consists of one hour of recreation, seven of sleep, and 16 of work. Eating is a minor function m my existence, and is only a matter o. minutes,” says Signor Mussolini in his second article. "I take life on t-e running jump. It is the life lam trying to instil into the hearts of militant Fascistism—to be ready, and pulling on tiie leash, impelled by the thought of an invincible destiny. “My clarion cry is, ‘ft is necessary to live dangerously,’ which is the es-s-.nc-e of a charged life. Every idea of the Fascist is to be bound to a leader who will lift the torch of sacrifice, and he the bravest of the brave.” —A. N.Z.C.A.