The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-31

centage of muscle making elements as well as 9 per cent of fat.
 Nuts are not hard to digest if eaten at meals in reasonable quantities They times or when the stomach. is already | taxed with other fools, and often too many are partaken of at one time.
 We have idiosyncracies of digestion Just and what is meat to one may be poison | to another. If certain foods are found to disagree with one they should be abandoned. or cooked In different way. | easy of digestion; but, when fried they require a great deal of energy and nerve force to digest and the nutriment sgained from the fried food does not compensate for the loss of force in digesting IL
 Make the breakfast a simple meal. always serving fruit It is a good eli- minator and particularly necessary to the system at certain seasons. cereal omelet. soft boiled, scrambled, poached or shirred. Avoid fried or hard-boiied eggs. Mufins of corn meal or stale bread which has been toasted constitutes s,Is, children to drink coffee. or tea. If they refuse milk or cocoa let them content | themselves with water. | Dinner should be the substantial meal | of the day. Begin with soup. If well made. 1t is nutritious and fiushes the stomach and intestines. However 1t Is sometimes desirable to discard soup Tn very hot weather. Let the second course se | by a white and green vegetable; that | Is. something starchy and something suc- culent. If salad is served the green vegetable may .o,n be omitted s,;ma,,. n,,da,nr, geiatines. cup-custards and fruit deserts are best The apple is a perennial source of health for the family and satis- faction to the housewife. It may be made into so many delicious and whole some dishes. Always keep them on hand. and in winter supply yourself witn a variety of dried fruits. When steweo plain or in a compete they are whole some and particularly nice for supper:
 Only foods easy of digestion should be served at the evening meal. For tnis reason the heavy nitrogenous foods should not be partaken of AS their diges- ton will interfere more or less with sleep Preserves, rich cake and hot battercakes are responsible for much rebellion on the 1. part of the liver.
 with cream is a nice supper dish Other | cereals may be served with stewed prunes or dates, if liked. MIX Is the best drtnk : for supper and Is in itself food. II
 hot bread Is desired. use mullins or stale
 bread toasted. Fresh hot rolls tickle the
 palate but are as unwholesome an article
 as can be found. Rolls twenty-four or
 even forty-eight hours old dampened ana If freshly baked. All soggy bread IS oad' and when the crumb can be mashed be- tween the fingers and rolled Into a
 gummy pill it Is indigestible, no matter
 by what name 1t goes. If you use fresh. ly baked white bread let 1t be in cold or damp weather when the body can pest utilize heating foods. The same Is true of fried foods and pastry. If served in hot weather they increase the bodily nres
 when we need just the opposite.
 It is a good Idea to make diet list, put ting each food under its proper head, as muscle building, heat producing, nerve supplying, etc., with the various ways of cooking each in an opposite column: : Tack this list on your pantry door ana consult it when meals are given out. All the elements of food need not be sup piled at one meal. Digestion Is some- times facilitated by eating carbonaceous foods at one meal and nitrogenous at another. All that the housewife should see to, is that her family gets a fair DOT ton of the various food elements during the twenty-four hours of the day.
 The Frenchman says: Tell me what YOU eat and will tell you what you are, and 1t is 50 true that our health, happi- ness. usefulness in ife-or every exist ence. even, depends upon the food VIC eat. that no trouble Is too great If by so understanding 1t such daily menus can be provided as yield the exact amount or nourishment in the right proportions re- auired by every member of the family.