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pudding, arrowroot, sago, cream cakes, meringues, custards, sweetmeats, honey, nuts, bananas, sweet grapes, pastry, ice cream.

Milk or cream.

Supper (about 7 P. M.).

Bread and butter, or bread and milk, with preserves, jams, or syrup, oatmeal porridge. Mush with milk or molasses. Cold bacon or mutton.

Milk sweetened or plain. Tea with cream and sugar.

Every person must watch and weigh himself, and thus learn what articles of diet are in his individual case most fattening. Mr. Banting found from his experience that to him sugar was the most productive of fat. If he ate five ounces of it, he increased one pound! Dr. Stark, likewise speaking from his own knowledge, declares in favor of suet as that which fleshed him most rapidly. Another high authority says that milk, especially when taken fresh and from an Alderney cow, is superior to anything else. If one can drink three or four pints of it a day, an increase in weight is as certain, and perhaps more certain, than by swallowing cod-liver oil. Starch in the form of arrowroot, sago, tapioca, or farina, is equally lauded by others.

To be avoided on the other hand are: pickles, vinegars, highly spiced food, sour wines or fruits, acid vegetables.

To decrease in size a diet chiefly animal is required;