If you sleep much, you will grow fat, if you sleep little, your digestion will increase, and you will eat more.
We have then only to speak of the manner they who wish to grow fat should live. This will not be difficult, according to the many directions we have laid down.
To resolve this problem, we must offer to the stomach food which occupies, but does not fatigue it, and displays to the assimilant power, things they can turn into fat.
Let us seek to trace out the daily diet of a sylph, or a sylph disposed to materialize itself.
GENERAL RULE. Much fresh bread will be eaten during the day, and particular care will be taken not to throw away the crumbs.
Before eight in the morning, soup au pain or aux pates will be taken, and afterwards a cup of good chocolate.
At eleven o'clock, breakfast on fresh broiled eggs, petit pates cotelettes, and what you please; have eggs, coffee will do no harm.
Dinner hour should be so arranged that one should have thoroughly digested before the time comes to sit down at the table. The eating of one meal before another is digested, is an abuse.
After dinner there should be some exercise; men as much as they can; women should go into the Tuilleries, or as they say in America, go shopping. We are satisfied that the little gossip and conversation they maintain is very healthful.
At times, all should take as much soup, potage, fish, etc., and also meat cooked with rice and macaronies, pastry, creams, etc.