Evening star., 1935-03-20
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

as addition to many other foods, or
failure to chew 1t sufficiently.
The modern tendency Is to regard
bread simply as an aside, veritable
stopgap until other foods arrive. Who
has not seen people at banquets "hll
up" on bread and butter and water,
until by the time the first course ar
rived many had entirely satisfied
their hunger? Yet, no doubt, they
went right ahead, eating an entire
eight-course dinner. Was 1t any
wonder, then, that they got indiges-
ton, and that one banqueter might
place the blame on the bread, an
other on the coffee and another on
that lamb?
II
Jones, in giving over bread, did so
with regret.
Nothing in the food line struck his
taste better than fine glass OF bread
and milk.
This childhood taste had persisted
through the years.
He could recall 20 years ago, when
he ate many luncheon Of milk and
graham crackers at a now defunct
eating place on Fifteenth street across
from the Treasury.
In those days starch didn't hurt
him! He was younger, by George!
Part Of the truth-Templeton Jones
never felt that he Cor any one else)
could ever arrive at more than part
OF the truth about anything-waS
that in the old days he made a COM
| plete meal of bread and milk
Also he took more time at it. 1t is
probable, he thought, that if one ate
bread alone, and took plenty of time
to give it the preliminary digestion by
means of saliva which it requires,
there would not be SO much difficulty
in handling it.
Jones' upset stomach continued for
several days. He had long ago given
up expecting any particular sympathy.
| Sympathy is something the majority
of mankind give only to very appar-
| ent symptoms. A fit will bring a great
| crowd, but a sick stomach" will not.
There is just that much difference.
Only when the blood is drawn from
the face, preliminary to the convul-
sion popularity known as throwing
up" will the average spectator admit
| that the victim is really i'll.
Templeton Jones began to specu-
| late on all the terrible diseases one
might have. Probably these thoughts
| come more to stomach sufferers than
to others, owing to the very intimate
connection between the stomach and
the sympathetic nervous system.
Jones chose several very horrible
diseases, then rejected them, one by
one.
All he knew was that he wanted
nothing to eat, that he felt faint every
| few hours, that such food as he con-
sumed did not remove the gnawing
sensations. Ulcer of the stomach, at
/ the very least, was his portion
Then he thought of a glass of bread
and milk. 1t had been some time
since he had INDUCED.
Carefully he poured out two large
glasses and carefully he crumpled up
slices of bread, filling each glass to
the top, pushing down the bread with
a spoon until each tumbler was prop
erly filled.
! Then Jones set to- The first spoon
full tasted fairly good, the second good,
| the third excellent.
Jones fingered over each mouthful.
much as a gourmand might be pic
tured as tackling some famous deli
cacy.
Within an hour, Templeton Jones
| headache was gone. Within two hours.
all traces Of his upset stomach had
vanished. The next day he felt fine.
/ Jones had taken the bread-and- milk
cure, his own patent. and benefited
/ nightly.