The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-13

if you would keep cool In the summer, you must eschew the drinking of iced things, either ice creams or soda waters.
 The ice cream is full of sugar, and the sugar full of carbon, and you feed the system with carbon and heat the blood, and then how can you expect to keep cool?
 If you MUST drink something cool, take lemonade without sugar, or any of the other fruit juices without sugar or drink buttermilk.
 Mir Christian thinks the average family spends exactly five times as much on food as it should
 The proper food in the first place isn't bought, and in the second place it isn't cooked properly.
 The result is nevitable-INDIGEST and indigestion according to the latest ideas of the elect is a dangerous mental. moral and physical condition.
 If we deduce results from what MT. Christian says the suicides that are brought to this end come to it by eating food they had much better have left alone.
 If self destruction isn't the result, al- most as bad follows. in the form of hys- terics, brain storms and murders.
 All this comes about by the stomach being overtaxed with food that 1t cannot digest
 You must admit that there is an ee> ment of reason in these assertions.
 MT. Christian goes further and says:
 Remember that it takes from 15 to IS hours for food to digest and during the process of digestion one is naturally heated. so give the stomach as little work as possible and do not feed it with rich and stimulating foods it does not want and cannot take care of except at the expense of it's health.
 MT. Christian asserts that it should not cost family of four over $1.20 day for these perfectly satisfying meals, and using this amount judiciously, nourish- ing, cool food can be purchased and pre- pared and much illness and depression can be avoided
 What MT. Christian has to say on the subject of Infant Mortality is brief, but decidedly to the point.
 He declares that during the months of July and August. thousands of chill dren die, simply because their mothers are too ignorant to feed them properly.
 By his theory it should cost about S cents day to feed child.
 It's not the poverty of the parent, he goes on to say as much as it is the ig- norance of the same parent that kills the child of the congested districts in the great cities.
 Instead of giving your child dish of greasy potatoes and a tin cup. of bad coffee, Mrs. Mother of a Sick Baby, appetizing?
 q quote MT. Christian. giving his cent Menu):
 "A pint of Milk CFive cents);
 "A Ripe Banana (one cent);
 Barley Water (Two cents)."
 Besides all this advice, MT. Christian also does you the good turn of telling you how to simplify housekeeping and SAVE MONEY.
 Instead of hoarding all your money for summer eating, close up your house and go off for a vacation" he advises.
 Don't go to a place where you Will be eternally trying to keep up with the others, but instead choose some quiet restful place by the sea, where you can lie out in the sand and the children can live in the water" he continues.
 This would be life saver" to many tired. wornout housekeeper, as well as her children.
 And MT. Christian is right about saving money by this scheme, too
 I know of several families who have rented little cottage or even lived in tents up in the mountains or down by the seashore (not million miles away from Birmingham, ether), and have "eamped out all summer long and come home in the Fall hearty and well and strong and happy for the experience.
 Think it over-this summer meal propo- sition and vacation.
 Eat cool food these torrid days and what you save on your Menu spend on a nice, quiet rest equally as simple down by the sea or up in the mountains somewhere