The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-06
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agree, if there be real hunger.
Health may be preserved or restored
by many different classes of few
foods; almost any class can produce
examples Of great success. The Sails
bury treatment can do So in spite of
it's frequent failures 1t consists of
incompletely cooked beef and plenty of
hot water. Others have lived entirely
on oats. Fruit cures have been count
less, whether luscious fruits alone be
taken or whether nuts be added to
them. Or fruits may be combined
with grains or with certain grains.
There is a salad cure. There is
vegetable cure. There is a cure of
vegeta bles with meat and without
pudding.
The truest health is to have few
wants. The man who is not content
with one or two dishes at a meal may
be enormously rich, but he is not indie
pendent Yet we need to be attracted
If we have few foods we must take
every pains to have them pleasantly
and properly served.
Few Foods and Few Tastes.
If there is any law here it seems to
be that at one meal there should be
few foods and few tastes, however de-
lightful these tastes may be. Certain
ly the wild taste should be preserved
and increased by wholesome culinary
art Certainly the whole or most of the
taste should then be extracted by care
full mastication.
The question is whether we should
stick to two or three kinds of food al
ways. In favor of the idea is the fact
that soon we are able to extract the
a Of hanpf1t nd of
from these few foods, as our digestive
juices get into special training; and
that we are unlikely to eat in gross eX-
cess, since the temptation is smaller,
and the sense of taste and the instinct
of safety keener. But against it is the
danger of becoming a slave to narrow
regime. There are some who are sim
ply i'll il they go out of their small
beaten track of diet or of life | know
of one who does not dare to wear boots:
he is thus cut off from much social
life. He is regarded as a crank. Prob
ably it would be the ideal to be able
to enjoy a few foods. and to be able to
digest them thoroughly, but not to
lose the power of digesting many other
foods as we'll.
Times for Meals.
The social difficulty also stands in the
way of taking meals at the times which
might otherwise be best for the indi-
vdual.
Except in cases where very small
meals should be taken very frequently,
when there is, as it were. a perpetual
nibbling of tiny mouthfuls (Which is
far the least social of all arrangements)
the tendency seems to be towards two
meals a day as the best plan. A week
trial must be given before any verdict
can be passed, if only because what is
called the hunger habit" akin to the
thirst of the dipsCmanaic, may prevail
during that time.
But how can we adopt the two-meal
plan without interfering with domestic
and other requirements? Perhaps the
evening meal is that which we can
least easily give up. Let us, therefore,
retain that. and let us consider a two
meal plan, of which the evening meal
shall form one.
The Two Meal-Pian.
We may give up our breakfast or
luncheon, or eat a very light breakfast
or luncheon-for instance, fruit
breakfast or a biscuit luncheon-ac-
oording to our Individual needs and
temperaments. Reformers underesti-
mate the power of the household and
of society. They do not calculate for
domestic tyranny: they do not realize
that the permission of those in author
ity must be obtcined or else peace may
be lost.
Otherwise the one-meal plan might
be best.
The One-MeaI Plan.
The one-meal plan can be led up to
gradually through the three meal and
two meal plans. The other two meals
should become lighter and lighter by
degrees, easy steps being made by fruit