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you regard as a truly successful man ? Which does public opinion re- 

 gard as more successful ? 



23. Do you buy more wood (cellulose) when you buy beans or when 

 you buy nuts ( 434) ? 



24. Do you buy more water when you buy bread or when you buy 

 meat ? 



25. Which is true, the original saying: " Stuff a cold, and you will 

 have to starve a fever," or the modern way of stating it ? 



26. Why is soda sometimes good medicine to neutralize a sour 

 stomach, and very bad for digestion if eaten in bread ( 91, 377)? 



27. What advantage in digestibility may a hot biscuit have over a 

 loaf of stale bread ? Vice versa ? 



28. Some physiologists hold that the eating of much meat causes an 

 irritable temper. Does your observation of others or your personal 

 experience confirm or disprove this ? 



29. Why do people who live in overheated rooms often have poor 

 appetites ? 



30. Why may the taking of prepared pepsin weaken the stomach ? 



31. Why is there often an outbreak of colds when a warm moist spell 

 of weather succeeds several weeks of cold dry weather ( 6, 587) ? 



32. Explain how the stomach may be weakened by the eating of 

 "predigested foods. 



NOTES 



1. What the Carpenter said. "You literary fellows talk about the 

 breakfast question. All you need to do is to get out and do some 

 work. Use your hands. Take some exercise like I do, and you can 

 eat anything. You sit there all day cooped up in your office and write, 

 write, write. You cannot enjoy food or sleep as long as you do that. 

 Come out here and shove the jack-plane an hour or two ; that will give 

 you an appetite. Let me get you at one end of this cross-cut saw at six 

 o'clock in the morning, and I will settle the breakfast question for you 

 in a hurry. You will have no need of patent cereals or fancy foods in 

 pasteboard boxes." 



2. Cotton Seed as a Food. The American Analyst says : " Two 

 thirds of the olive oil sold in the markets of the world is born in the 

 cotton fields of the Southern States." 



Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton says : " I consider one of the most 

 healthful articles of diet that we can possibly have, to be cotton-seed oil. 

 It is one of the best fats, and is much more healthful than lard." 



Dr. R. O. Beard, a professor in the College of Medicine, Minneapolis, 



