SLIMMER POLICEMEN
Policeinou of: Chicago with extra beam, who approach moro closely the popular idea of a politician's girth thaa, that of.:' ail "'; efficieiit. crime-fighter, are to be placed 6u,.a. mandatory, diet. And what a ,diet it.is.jor a ,big policeman (comments the Chicago correspondent of the Now'•' Ybrk '"■ ."Evening Post").' Hero's.th'e first day's menu:
Breakfast.—Small slico of. melon ' or medium orange/one ogg,.eooked without fat, lone slico. of > toast, , quo-half- "inch thick; one square of butter^ half a cup of ..cereal, half a cup; of ,milk (not cream), one. teaspoon o? Bugar. Lunch. —Two of bread one-half-inch thick; one square of butter, a sandwich, ;twq'slices of liaeon, lettuce and tomato, no salad dressing, darge dill pickle,,,one glass millc, on©; medium peach,; one teaspoonful of: sugar. 'Dinner.— One*service\bak«d fish, four ;by two by one inches, with lemon; boiled potato .without butter,half -cup of stowed tomatoes, a .'quartet-head of lettuce with lemon or vinegar, one glass _ of millc, two slices of brdad, one half-inch thick; oho square of better, and a' small bunch of'grapes. That Health Commissioner Kegel', who'prcscribed tho diet nt the requost of Police .Commissioner , Eu'ssoll, '.calculates,* will provilo 1.750 calorics, half ■or less than half of what the fat fellows have been stowing away lately, :. -." ..I''' /-..,;.
SLIMMER POLICEMEN
Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 144, 21 June 1930, Page 6
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