The Washington times., 1919-03-29
Whatdja Eat 'SmOrning?
Betcha 1t Was All Wrong;
Mebbe Shy on PrOteens

Major Pullman ought not TO eat
chocolate cake twice a day; Postmas
ter Chance will never grow up to be
a big healthy man If he keeps on
drinking three cups of coffee a day,
and as for Tax Collector Ben Prince
If he doesn't begin to drink milk, soon
there won't be anybody to see that
the District of Columbia taxes are
promptly paid.
All Of which is the warning sounded
in the ears Of these prominent local
men by little Miss Aubyn ChiRn. who,
under the auspices OF the Department
OF Agriculture, is trying to make folks
understand what they ought 10 eat
and why-or, as the case may be. what
not to eat and why not.
Catch OfhciaIs Mapping.
Just TO catch the police superintend.
ent and the postmaster and the tax
collector mapping. and to prove Miss
Chinn's charge that everyone eats
those things they ought not and leaves
untouched those things they should
eat. these three public officials were
selected as awful examples" And.
further, to prevent them cooking I'D a
model menu or telling what they would
eat if someone was looking, all three
men were made to confess just what
they had eaten for all three meals.
Yesterday, for example:
Major Pullman ate for breakfast an
orange, some oatmeal and cream, one
egg, buttered toast, and two cups of
coffee; for lunch shredded wheat and
cream. bread and butter, chocolate
cake and coffee: for dinner sirloin
steak, baked potatoes. hearts of let
tuce salad, bread and butter, choco-
late cake tea and-chocoIate candy
Doesn't Eat Enough.
In the first place" declared Miss
Chinn. this man doesn't eat enough.
You say he's over six feet. broad in
proportion and handsome. These
menus constitute a very light and not
sufhciently nourishing diet. Second.
MS sweet tooth is abnormalIy de-
Veloped and II instead OF so much
sweets, he would eat more bulky food
sueh as fruits and green vegetables.
he would feel just as well fed and
would be much better nourished.
Apparently his system Graves more
1909 than Is contained in his menu, so
without realizing why, he seeks IL in
lts most concentrated form, candy.
HIS entire diet lacks minerals and IL
ne would drink a pint of milk q day.
ne would make up the calcium and
phosphorus he needs By including
more green vegetables he would Sc |
cure the iron needed. Less sweets. more
fruit prunes and raisins. yoIks Of |
eggs, milk and spinach are the re-
quirements for this man"
When Miss Chinn was told who the
culprit is she declared: "And no little |
boy, even though he's boss of the
ponce force ought to eat chocolate
cake twice a day.
Postmaster Chance On Grill,
Postmaster Chance was put on the |
grill next. He had confessed to par
taking Of grape fruit, oatmeal and |
cream, two soft-boiled eggs. dry toast,
and two cups OF coffee for breakfast;
for luncheon, oysters on the shell,
roast young pig, apple sauce. bread |
and butter, and coffee: for dinner
baked shad, potatoes, peas. bread and |
butter and ice cream.
This is a very good menu, and /
better than the first. but no one
ought to have three cups Of coffee a
day, man who eats a luncheon as
heavy as that will certainly feel |
sluggish in the afternoon" said Miss
Chinn. Luncheon should be COM
ible, and that will not overload the
blood stream, so the brain can be as /
active in the afternoon as il was in
the morning. Curiously enough, al
though it is little understood it does
not take any more food to do brain
work than it does to do nothing at /
all.
"The old Maine fisherman who sits
and fishes in summer and just sits in
winter, uses up just as much energy
as an editor getting out a newspa-
per. This man should have less pro-
leid foods and more sweets in his diet.
and he doesn't get enough calcium
and phosphorus. and ought therefore,
10 drink a pint OF milk a day
WHIST the Tax Collector Ate.
Tex Collector Prince greeted the day
With bacon and eggs. buttsrcd toast
and two cups OF coffee: at noon he
waded into corned beef and cabbag,
bread and butter, and two more cups
OF coffee, and at night he dashed off
some lamb chops. mashed potatoes,
lettuce salad and bread and butter.
Miss Ch!nn gave this congIomera-
ton an earnest once-over and Princes
fortune" came out this way:
This man is having what we call