All those things can be eaten which will sit on the stomach.

Anything that won't sit there is not eatable.
"Do you suppose I could get them to get any ?" questioned Tomlinson.
"Would it be all right to telephone down to the office, or do you think it would be better to ring ?" "Perhaps," said his wife, "it would be better to look out into the hall and see if there isn't someone round that would tell them." This was the kind of problem with which Tomlinson and his wife, in their thousand-dollar suite in the Grand Palaver, grappled all day.

And when presently a tall waiter in dress-clothes appeared, and said, "Jelly?
Yes, sir, immediately, sir; would you like, sir, Maraschino, sir, or Portovino, sir ?" Tomlinson gazed at him gloomily, wondering if he would take five dollars.
"What does the doctor say is wrong with Fred ?" asked Tomlinson, when the waiter had gone.
"He don't just say," said mother; "he said he must keep very quiet.

He looked in this morning for a minute or two, and he said he'd look in later in the day again.

But he said to keep Fred very quiet." Exactly! In other words Fred had pretty much the same complaint as the rest of Dr.Slyder's patients on Plutoria Avenue, and was to be treated in the same way.