CHAPTER XIII.
STRENGTH.
ERE are the names of some of the different kinds of food. If you write them on the blackboard or on your slates, it will help you to remember them.
Water. Salt. Lime.
| Meat, | } | for muscles. | Sugar, | } | for fat and heat. |
| Milk, | Starch, | ||||
| Eggs, | Fat, | ||||
| Wheat, | Cream, | ||||
| Corn, | Oil, | ||||
| Oats, |
Perhaps some of you noticed that we had no wine, beer, nor any drink that had alcohol in it, on our bill of fare for dinner. We had no cigars, either, to be smoked after dinner. If these are good things, we ought to have had them. Why did we leave them out?
We should eat in order to grow strong and keep strong.