Sleep, eight or nine hours. Exercise, about three hours. Diet, very
varied.
STONEHENGE'S SYSTEM.
A DAY'S TRAINING.
Rise at 8 A.M. | According to season and weather.
| Cold bath.
Exercise, 8.30 to 9. | Walking or running. "Let all take a gentle run
| or smart walk."
Breakfast, 9 to 9.30. | Oatmeal porridge, with meat (beef or mutton,
| broiled) and bread.
| Tea or coffee, or table beer, one pint.
| "Tea is preferred to coffee.
| Cocoa is too greasy."
Exercise, 9.30 to 11.30, | Billiards, skittles, quoits, or
| other light exercise.
11.30 to 1.30. | Rowing.
1.30 to about 2.30. | Running. "According to circumstances."
| Rubbed dry and linen changed.
Dinner, 2.30 to 3 or 3.30| Meat--beef (roast) or mutton (boiled mutton
| occasionally), roast fowl, partridges, or pheasants
| (allowed), or venison (nothing better).
| "It is generally directed that the steak or chop
| should be underdone; this, I am sure, is a fallacy."
|--Bread (_ad lib_.).--Puddings occasionally,
| made of bread, eggs, and milk, and served with
| preserved fruits.--Vegetables--potatoes (one or two
| only), cauliflowers, and broccoli (only as an
| occasional change). If training is protracted,
| fish allowed (cod or soles).--Beer, from a pint to
| a pint and a half.--Wine, a glass or two, port or
| sherry.
After dinner,
until 5 or 6. |A gentle stroll or book.
Exercise, 6 to 7. |Rowing.
Supper, 8. |Oatmeal porridge with dry toast or chop,
| with glass of port.
Bed at 9 or 10.
SYSTEM OF JACKSON AND GODBOLD.
BREAKFAST.--Stale or whole-meal bread, or toast, a little butter, plenty
of marmalade if you like, but not jam. Bacon and eggs, or chops or
steaks, with watercress if obtainable. To those who like it, a basin of
oatmeal porridge, _properly made_, taken with pure milk about an hour
before breakfast, is an excellent thing, and has a very beneficial
effect upon the stomach, but it should not be taken every day. It is
better to miss it every third day, or to take it regularly for a
fortnight and then omit it from the next week's diet, as the too
frequent use of it is rather injurious to the skin of some persons.
Tea--not too strong--is better than coffee. Good ripe fruit is a
capital adjunct to the breakfast-table, and is an excellent article of
food.
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