ood is the only source of body substance, you must
gradually train your stomach so that it can care for enough food to not
only supply your bodily energy, but to leave a little excess to be
stored as fat.

[Sidenote: _Your Stomach_]

If you have a small appetite--and many of you have--your stomach is
undoubtedly contracted, and you must gradually add to the amount you
have been eating, even though it may cause some distress, until you have
disciplined it so that it can handle what you need without distress. The
stomach is a muscular organ and can be trained and exercised somewhat as
other organs can. You will not have much appetite at first, but it will
develop. Sometimes a short fast for a day or two, drinking nothing but
pure water, seems to be beneficial in the beginning.

Do not drink much with your meals, unless the drink has food value by
the addition of lots of cream or sugar, or both.

[Sidenote: _Eat More_]

Decide how many calories you need for your activities, gradually add to
your dietary until you have reached that number, and then some more, and
you will gain as surely as the overweight individual will lose by doing
the opposite. It may take a long time, or you may get results very
rapidly, depending somewhat upon the individual characteristics.
Gradually increase your butter, cream, sugar, chocolate, and so forth,
as they are very high in food value.

Study the Key to the Calories and reckon your calories every day for a
while. You have already noticed that the foods that you like are low in
food value.

Here are some of the things you can take to add to your fuel:

[Sidenote: _Try Some of These_]

A glass of milk, hot or cold, taken between meals and before retiring,
will add about 500 calories.

Cream sauce on your vegetables will add to their value.

Cod liver oil, or olive oil, or cream, begun in small doses and
gradually increased.

One malted milk, made with milk, syrup, egg, ice cream, whipped cream,
and the malted milk, will add about 500 calories.

[Sidenote: _Learned Phraseology_]

You remember the painful time that I spoke of when there was so much
more of me than there ought to be? Well, the aforesaid concoction, made
with milk, syrup, egg, ice cream, whipped cream, and the malted milk,
was accessory before the fact, and also particeps criminis before the
law.

I absorbed this phraseology by being president of the Professional
Woman's Club, with its high-class women attorne