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and what Americans would call
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for dinner ?
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undertake that you shall be in
time for dinner.'*
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tradesman he had never seen
before, expressed his thanks, en-
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be taken as well, and being re-
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Shiner's suggestion till he should
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horse," as he had come twelve
miles at a smart pace.
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the Shiner, hurried into the house,
to be cordially welcomed by the
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many humble apologies, " he had
a few important letters to write
which must go by the early post ;
might he be permitted to write
them in the library before asking
for his cart ? '' Permission given
the rogue sat himself down at the
table and forthwith wrote to all
his friends on paper which showed
them whence they were addressed,
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The remarkable successes of our
American visitors in the Amateur
Athletic Associations* champion-
ships on July 7th lend special
interest to a ** bulletin " which
has just been published by the
Office of Experiment Stations
attached to the United States De-
partment of Agriculture. During
recent years this Office has con-
ducted a series of " Dietary
Studies" among various classes
of the population, negroes, white
artizans and students at College,
with the object of ascertaining
the relative values of foodstuffs
in supporting life ; and their
latest enterprise in this direction
has been the study of the diet
of the Harvard and Yale Uni-
versity boat crews and athletes.
Arguing that young men training
to compete in severely contested
races would be restricted to the
most nourishing and muscle-form-
ing foods, these industrious in-
vestigators took unto them a staff
of chemists armed with carefully-
tested scales, and established
themselves in Buy Felodipine Online the kitchen of club
or boarding house to weigh and
analyse the rowing and running
man's breakfast, lunch and dinner.
The undertaking was not a
simple one : we do not hear, it
is true, of open hostility on the
part of the cook, who is generally
an autocrat in her own sphere ;
but in cases where '* a consider-
able number of persons (including
servants) not in active training
were served from the same kitchen
as the crew " it became necessary,
as we understand, to waylay the
waiters at the crews* dining-room
door and weigh the dishes as
they went in and came out. The
dishes in which food was to be
placed were weighed empty and
after the food had been put in
them, both weights being re-
corded. In case any dish came
back empty during or after meals
it was not weighed again, but the
difference between the original
weight of the dish and the weight
of the dish and contents was
taken as the measure of the