The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-11-29
Three VI calls a Day.

Three Heals n Day.
Mrs. Give begin the day with a
square trotting' meal and no enc lacks for
appetite; we sleep for appetite"
Mrs. A.-"Piease explain sleeping for
appetite"
Mrs. C.-"Weli, we have a fire and fresh
air in our bedrooms. If we can't have
both, we have air. | believe this is the
main reason for my children's escaping
catarrh. which had become incurable
in my case before | learned not to poison
myself with my own breath. Then be-
fore retiring | make the round of the
children's rooms-you know | have six
between the ages Of five and twenty. If |
End a y%oungster with his mouth open, |
turn him in 4 position that supports his
chin. Ii one seems to habitually open
his mouth in sleep, | have him clear
his nose thoroughly when he goes to bed,
and I bandage his head as for disloeated
jaw; the moral effect of the bandage is
good, as well as the mechanical. | am
determined my children shall not swell the
crowd of open-mouthed citizens | meet i'll
the streets daily. The habit account for
much sore throat. bad taste in the mouth,
and dark, dirty teeth. If | find a little
head under the covers | get it out, and if
the night is very cold, wrap a silk hand
kerchief about the forehead. If not, 1
have a talk with the child next day about
the dark Neither Jack Frost nor COB
Inns can have my babies noses
Mrs. Elder.-''My girls are very mag
NATIVE, and a Scotch cook told them ghost
stories, and it was years before they would
sleep without a light in the room"
Mrs. B.-"The children of this genera
ton are not so credulous. Old Nora told
Frank some of her Irish tales; he immedi-
ately repeated them to me, and said,
CANT she fresh?"
Mrs. c. ''Still there are dreaneIs
among children. My Agnes is one. She
was terrified by some frightful stories she
heard at school: but / can't have my child
rem sleep with q light, it's too bad for
their eyes. | told Agnes we can see just
anything we look for in the dark, In day
light we are sometimes obliged to look at
ugly things, but in darkness we can see
beautiful things if we want to. For a
while we used to talk every night about
what We shoHld look for after the light
was out, and sometimes she tells me of a
lovely landscape or flowers she saw the
night before"
Mrs. Dwell, you are 4 woman OF
resources, If some one had told me that
when | was a child it would have added
inches to my growth and years to my life.
But do tell us what you call a good break
fast"
Mrs. Cit depends, of course, upon
the season-ln June ! would have straw
berries heaping saucersful-rather than
beefsteak; but now-well, Jeff wants his
coffee, | wish he didn't, but | nave never
undertaken to bring up my husband, and
he has it as nicely prepared as if we all
drank it. We always have frnit of some
kind; oranges as much as we can afford,
serving them first, but apples have to be
the standby, raw stewed, baked, and
sometimes fried. They are not especially
unwholesome if rightly fried. We usually
have steak or chops, sometimes eggs i'll.
stead, potatoes baked or ste wed in cream.
graham gems, corn- bread or buekwheai
bread, sometimes doughnuts; but no lard
is used in my kitchen. We use the cottor
seed preparations for cooking. | think il
would be a long step healthward to sub
stitute vegetable for animal shortening.
OF course the taste is slightly different,
but a suspicion of lemon in your ginger
bread and "A dust of sugar on your dough
nuts DISCUSSES it. The children like il
better than the Hardy taste they find il
pastry away from home. | forgot to say
we always begin our meal with some o
the cereals, oatmeal, rolled wheat, barley
grits, or something of the sort served will
cream"
Mrs. Dolly Robin Gust arrived. D
'Girls, are You talking about eating?
brought down one of my 'Christmases,
as Bobby says, to show you. Aunt Cher
ry sent it to me from Vermont; we've
been planning our meals by it now for two
weeks, and | declare | would part with
my new seal skin sooner than it. if
couldn't get another! You see it has a
bill of fare for every meal of every day in
the year, and no two Of them exactly
alike"
Here the photograph is blurred, there
wss such a stir among the "sitters."