The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-07-19
THE FOOD FOR GIRLS.

girl writes in the name of many
others, to know just how milk should be
taken as diet for increasing flesh
should il be fresh or boiledY Should il be
diluted with limo water IL the clear milk
is not we'll borne? Would quart be too
much in a half day? ana other queries.
Now, If any number OF young women
propose TO improve their flesh and looks
by n milk diet and will do me the com.
pliment TO listen to anything l can say,
my advise is, DON'T Milk has been tho
standard food of unciviliZed nations,
Kurds and Christians ignorant how to pre-
pare proper food. Ii keeps It's place, and Is
the refuge Of doctors prescriptions, be-
cause it is nutriment that does not depend
upon cooking. The bitter fact is that not
one woman out Of n thousand. educated
or uneducated. knows how to prepare food
for a delicate digestion, sick or well. Eggs
and milk can be swallowed without tho
grace Of an heathenish cook, and are toler-
ated by the system long enough to get up
strength for eating something else. But
as articles OF diet the year round, they are
not at all to be recommended. Especially
in warm weather, from the first OF May.
they are most injurious, clogging the sys-
tenn, creating biliousness OF an obstinate
type and upsetting health and comfort
generally. When the crowds OF women
come home from the country the middle
OF September, one can ALWAYS select the
milk drinkers by their sallow, pasty COM
plexions, which tan and freckle fright
fully. Persons who take little eAer-
cise should let milk alone. They fancy IL
strengthens them, because the lump OF
curd left by a glass Of milk in the stom-
ach delays digestion as long ms q pork
and green's dinner. and allays tho craving
inseparable from an illnourisbed state of
things Milk diet. so far from being
healthy or advisable, Is probably the cause
of as much severe sickness as any food
Ea Ia
tible Of taint and so easily corrupts of
itself, that IL takes more courage or moro
obtuseness than common to venture on
its use when the facts are once under
stood. The unwbolosome creamery prac-
tice of straining IL at once into close
cans, or milk cabinets. where no air can
reach IL simply causes putrefaotion by the
animal heat and certain properties which
should pass OFT before it is sealed In cans
If you wish 20 gain plumpness, study
variety In food One mus. eat with appe-
tito TO grow good flesh. Through the
summer, let your fare consist OF beef
mutton or chicken proths, free of the
loast fat, thickcned with barley, sago or
fine Italian pastes. Barley. and the deli
cate preparations of corh cerealine and
pearl hominv or farina, are best for pro-
ducing healthy plumpness. Oatmeal is
not advisable In summer. shepherd
out on the moors by night and day, lead
ing hardy life, may live on IL the year
around but you cannot. Corn starch Is
c'ogging, rs are all the Tine preparations
of grain. Cracked wheat, boiled three
hours in plenty OF water, eaten cold with
berries and sugar. is better than milk for
producing of figure, and is different
thing from the uneatablo paste presented
at most tables. Eat orusty bread, or
Graham crackers, baked over before COM
ing To tho table. The crust has more
sugar and caramel developed in 1t by
a ...l..
by the teeth Eat plenty OF vegetables,
fresh and we'll served; oil the watercress,
garden cress and crisp radishes you can
secure being included. Nothing IL Ike
them for making a cloar skin and bright
ewes Salmon. crab and chicken salads
with mayonnaise are recommended for
thin persons. In fact brown, crusty bread.
with good salad dressing instead of milk
or butter, Is excellent flesh forming
food. The California dainty, peeled and
preserved fg. IL tlesh-making material
easy Of digestion even by dyspeptics. and
almost pure nutrimcnt Occasional
crackers preserved fruits, good canlios
and sweets, are aids Co plumpnoss but
should not take the place of proper food
Acidity of the stomach is fatal 60 hope OF
plumpness I'm n lean person. and must be
prevented by brushing the teoth after
eating and taking doses OF lime water,
not the sour lines bnt the alkali, or, far
better. fluid magncsia. not citrate. The
Taunton magnesia water Is recon-
mended, rs leaving no deposits In tho
system, and Is the cheapest OF all the
magnesia fluids. A teaspoonfui must be
taken as often as the acidity u folt and
will Denoiit breath and digestion greatly.
1t is curious that lemonade, sherbets and
fruit Juice In summer do more 20 invite
healthy fesh on thin people than AN nm
iudicious milk dict Nature Rlv va seeks
~ preserve healthy medium, and the