The Pedestrian's Record

94 the pedestrian's record» portion of fresh fruit, will please the stomach, andthe system will be satisfied with the variety, for even the best of food, continued day after day, with some people produces nausea. Change of diet is therefore always advisable, and although the trainer has not a large bill of fare to select from, at the same timehe can, with the assistance of his cook, procure such dishes as will be palatable and nutritious. The dinner may be washed down with a pint of beer, neither new nor stale, neither weak nor strong, but that happy medium. Dinner at twoo'clock. supper. Although many trainers object to this meal, upon what grounds it is difficult to understand ; from two in the day to eight in the evening means six hours without food, and from eight to eight next morning amounts to twelve hours, in all eighteen. This cannot be wise treatment, the stomach empties in three or four hours, and can this prolonged fast benefit the system ? Certainly not! Food taken a little and often is a dietary arrangement often prescribed by physi­ cians ; in fact, long fasting produces weakness of stomach, and sometimes nausea. Out of training a man would not think of retiring to rest without food of some kind, and surely an athlete, whose physical energies are kept at concert pitch, requires more support than his brother who does not walk two miles a day, and sits down to a heavy dinner at seven