The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1895-09-27
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HOT WEATHER DIET.
The doctor sauntered in looking |
maddeningly cool in her pale blue /
ehambray waist and her light weight |
black silk skirt. She eyed the heated |
individual lying in muslin negligee
on the lounge with some disapproVal.
The heated individual grunted out
greeting, famed as vigorously as she
could, took q drink of iced lemonade
from q glass pitcher at her elbow and
then mathematical the weather, The
doctor listened with professional pa
thence.
''What did you have for breakfast
this morning?" she demanded finally
removing temptation in the form of
iced drinks to a distance and seating
herself on the foot of the lounge.
could scarcely eat any breakfast.
growled the warm person, 81 had
couple OF cups Of coffee, a roll and
some eggs and bacon. like eggs aud
bacon"
"Um, remarked the doctor in nom
committal tones. "Did you have
cream with your Coffee"
'Yea, of course" said the patient
who wished to be treated for heat
"Do you really wish to be cool,
healthy and energetic for the rest OF
the summer?" demanded the doctor.
cor do I prefer to be sizzling sick
and languid? You may proceed on the
former assumption, said the patient
fippantly.
Every WE'LL" said the drctor, be-
ginning to write prescription. When
it was written she handed it to the
patient, who read:
breakfast: fruit, plenty CT it;
whole wheat or graham bread without
butter; coffee, one cup without cream.
Occasionally on rainy or cool days,
vary by having broiled chop, Q
boiled egg or q dish of well-cooked
rice.
Luncheon: Fruit, sliced bread,
whole wheat or graham; wheatenar
rice or breakfast hominy served with
fruit syrup or preserved fruit; vege'
table salads. Tea or coffee, without
cream, and hot. Vary b. using waters
and marmalade or the like.
DINNER: Clear soup, consUmm
or bouillon, hot; fish or meat, greer
peas, beets, asparagus, beans, boile'
rice or hominy, stewed tomatoes, salaj
of lettuce, tomatoes or cucumbers
dessert OF fruit. Small cup of blac.
coffee"
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asked the patient when she had rea
it.
"Cheerfully," said the doctor. ga
most all the ills that flesh is heir to i
summer are due to improper die
. Our climate differs considerably dul
ing July and August from that of I'll
arctic regions, and yet we store ava
heat-producing food in a way tn
would astonish the Eskimos, 1 veri
believe. We eat meat as freely as v
do in December.
eve take fats into our systems wit
perfect indifference-cream, milk ar
butter. Besides this, we force Il
stomach to do as hard work in sur
mer as it does in winter until it rebel
Then we complain of not having al
appetite, or being tagged out, and Ii
ally we come down with dyspepsi
Now, the way to keep cool is to e
} cooling foods-that doesn't mean co
food, observe and to give the stoma
as easy time as possible. The Il
work it has to do the cooler the bo
will be. Fruits and fresh vegetabl
are laxatiyes. If plenty Of them 9
eaten, they will give sufficient nouris
> ment. Cold drinks are delusion a
3 a snare. They chill the interior
r the stomach. The surrounding
seems hotter by contrast and pers
ration is checked. Moderate pers
i ration is one of the greatest aids
GOODNESS. Now, will you try my p
& acription3
: "For al might, agreed the hea
= individual.
''That will mean all the summe
= said the doctor, cordially. 90
tried it is always used. New Y
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