Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-03-08
alarming decrease in the size of the average
American woman.
HAT GIRLS SHOULD EAT.

American woman.
WHAT GIRLS SHOULD EAT.
/ DIR. Lewis does not admire the American
style of cooking, nor the American manner
of eating. This is the diet and regimen
that he recommends -
a. To secure a clear, fresh skin, bright eye,
active limbs, quick brain, and cheerful,
/ pleasant temper, and if you would enjoy a
long life you should live about as f0llows:-
BREAKFAST.
Oatmeal porridge with milk and sugar or
Graham mush with little good syrup or,
cracked wheat with milk and sugar or
baked potatoes with bread and butter. If
you are thin and need fat, use the first three,
1t you are too fat, use the last named two.
Drink cold water or little weak coffee.
DINNER
Beef or mutton, roasted, or stewed with
any vegetables you may like, (thoul .oma-
toes should be used very sparingl.. good
bread and butter, and close the meal with a
glass of weak lemonade. Eat no dessert,
unless it be little fruit, and eat nothing
more till the next morning. There is no
rule in regard to diet about which | IN so
fixed in my convictions as, that nothing
should be eaten after dinner, and L think
that the dinner should be taken early 10 the
than . o'clock. In regard to the precise
hour for the dinner, am not so clear, though
for myself l o'clock is the best hour; but in
reference to the omission of the third meal
| have, after long observation, no doubt
whatever.
Eat nothing between meals, mt even an
apple or peach. If you eat fruit, let it be
with the br eakIast and dinner. Cooked
fruit is best for persons of weak digestion.
| have met hundreds of people who could
digest a large beelsteak without pang, but
who could not manage single uncooked ap
Pile | think certain dietetic reformers have
somewhat overated the value of fruit. Avoid
cake, pie, all sweetmeats, nuts, raisins and
candies. Manage your: stomach as above,
and at the end of ten years you will look
back upon these table habits as the source OF
great advantages and happiness.
WHAT GIRLS SHOULD DRINK.
On this point the Doctor declares war
upon China =
- | am astonished that a young woman
who is ambitious of clear, fine skin should
drink tea 1t is great enemy TO fair COM
plexion Wine, coffee and cocoa may be used
without tinging the skin but soon as
tea-drinking becomes regular habit, the
eye Of the discriminating observer detects it
in the skin. Tea compromises the complex
ion, probably, by deranging the liver. Weak
tea or coffee may be used occasionally, in
moderate quantity, without harm and those
who live much in the open air, and are oc-
cupied with hard work may drink either, IN
considerable quantities, without noticeable
harm but l advise all young women who
would preserve a soft. clear skin and quiet
nerves, to avoid sll drinks but cold water.
1t is an excellent practice to drink one or
two glasses OF cod water on lying down at
night, and on rising in the morning. If
you have good teeth, and can help the food
into your stomach without using any fluid,
except the saliva, il Will, in the long run,
contribute much to your health
FAT GIRLS AND THIN GIRLS.
We must conclude these few and scatter
cd extracts from book so full of good things
with Dr. Lewis's advice on subject Of vast
Importance % many a dissatisfied beauty who
would part with her back hair if she could
gain OF lose little flesh, as the case may
be. This is the prescription
Are you too fat ? Eat less food, with
larger proportion OF meat rise early in the
and exercise much. This viii re-
duce your weight. Even diminishing the
quantity Of food alone, without any other
change, will be sure 10 do il. Ii Is impossl- F.
bic that excessive lat, either in horse OF man,
can hold out against a persistent reduction
in the quantity of food. Aud if the roduc-
ton be gradual and judicious, the strength is
not lessened, but is steadily increased, until
the excess in fat is all gone
And will add that, after two or three
days, there viii he no sense of hunger until
the excess has been removed.
Are YOU too thin , Sleep more by going
TO bed earlier do not overwork cat freely
Of oatmeal porridge, Graham mush, cracked
" heat and hulled corn and all with mllk
and sugar Cultivate cheerful, happy tenn .
per.