90 THE WONDERFUL HOUSE THAT JACK HAS 



invited to evening entertainments where an abundance 

 of indigestible food is sure to be served. How can 

 burdening the body at such a time be avoided ? Wise 

 body builders can be careful to make the preceding 

 meals very light ones, or be regulated during the even- 

 ing by the motto, Only a little. 



People often make a breakfast of a cup or two of 

 coffee and a few pancakes liberally covered with butter 

 and sirup. Why is this not a good start in the day's 

 body building? The coffee, as we have learned, 

 stimulates, but furnishes no nutriment. The flour 

 in the cakes is in a form difficult for digestion, and 

 so soft that it is usually swallowed without much 

 chewing. The sirup and butter are good foods, but 

 are likely to form altogether too large a proportion of 

 the meal. 



Remembering that the aim of wise body builders is 

 to furnish the important materials, proteid, fat, starch, 

 and sugar, at each meal in a form that may be easily 

 digested, why is a lunch of egg or meat sandwiches, 

 a glass of milk and some fruit, far better than one of 

 bread and jam, pickles, pie, and cake? Because the 

 former has a liberal supply of proteid in a form easy 

 to digest. It also contains plenty of starch, and, in 

 addition, some fruit to serve as a healthful stimulus. 

 In the latter, the food is too largely starch, much 

 of it in a form difficult to digest, while neither the 

 jam nor the pickle helps the burden. 



Why are broth, baked potatoes, broiled beef, toast, 



