rving.

"Yes, Marny, I'm sorry to say it, but the fact is you eat too much and
you eat the wrong things. If you knew anything of the kinds of food
necessary to nourish the human body, you would know that it should
combine in proper proportions proteid, fats, carbohydrates and a small
percentage of inorganic salts--these are constantly undergoing
oxidation and at the same time are liberating energy in the form of
heat."

"Hear the bloody bounder!" bawled Pudfut from the other end of the
table.

"Silence!" called Marny, with his ear cupped in his fingers, an
expression of the farthest-away-boy-in-the-class on his face.

Joplin waved his hand in protest and continued, without heeding the
interruption: "Now, if you're stupid enough to stuff your epigastrium
with pork, you, of course, get an excess of non-nitrogenous fats, and
in order to digest anything properly you must necessarily cram in an
additional quantity of carbohydrates--greens, potatoes,
cabbage--whatever Tine shoves under your nose. Consult any scientist
and see if I am not right--especially the German doctors who have made
a specialty of nutrition. Such men as Fugel, Beenheim and--"

Here a slice of Tine's freshly-cut bread made a line-shot, struck the
top of Joplin's scalp, caromed on Schonholz's shirt-front and fell into
Stebbins's lap, followed instantly by "Order, gentlemen!" from Marny.
"Don't waste that slab of proteid. The learned Bean is most interesting
and should not be interrupted."

"Better out than in," continued Joplin, brushing the crumbs from his
plate. "Bread--fresh bread particularly--is the very worst thing a man
can put into his stomach."

"And how about pertaties?" shouted Malone. "I s'pose ye'd rob us of the
only thing that's kep' us alive as a nation, wouldn't ye?"

"I certainly would, 'Loney, except in very small quantities. Raw
potatoes contain twenty-two per cent. of the worst form of
non-nitrogenous food, and seventy-eight per cent. of water. You,
Malone, with your sedentary habits, should never touch an ounce of
potato. It excites the epigastric nerve and induces dyspepsia. You're
as lazy as the devil and should only eat nitrogenous food and never in
excess. What you require is about one hundred grams of protein, giving
you a fuel value of twenty-seven hundred calories, and to produce this
fifty-five ounces of food a day is enough. When you exceed this you run
to flesh--unhealthy bloat really--and in the wrong places. You'v