Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1881 — What a Boy Can Eat. [ARTICLE]

What a Boy Can Eat.

An inquiring and anxious boy of 19 writes the editor of a great paper for advice as to eating. Says he ; “Is th*e soup you get in restaurants good ? Some of it appears to be greasy. ’ ! Very profitless is the answer of the editor to the boy : “Aboy,’’says the scribe, “ a boy, in truth, ought not to think about such things. His physical economy is a marvelous contrivance, and yet it is one that performs its operations without help from his intellect.” Yes, boy. Eat anything. Because you’re a boy and have a good, strong stomach. Forget you have a stomach—because you’re a boy. Eat heavy bread, sour bread, leathery cooked meats, greasy pies, poisoned candies, anything, everything—because you’re a boy, and you’re supposed to have a stomach which will digest tenpenny nails. Eat when in a profuse prespiration, eat and work or study the moment you jump up from the table, eat whatever is set before you, be good, bad or indifferent, and all because you’re a boy.

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