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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 13, Issue 673, 15 April 1869, Page 2

Breakfast. —A Successful Expebijient.—The Civil Service Ghzette has the following interesting remarks:—" There are very fewsimplearticlesof food which can boast so many valuable and important dietary properties as cocoa. While acting on the nerves as a gentle stimulant, it provides the body with some of ih* purest elements of uutriri »n, and at the same time corrects and invigorates the action of the organs. These beneficial effects depend in a great mea-u'eu;oii ihe manner of its preparation, but of late years Mich close attention has been given to (he growth and treatment of cocoa, th it there is no ditficulty i i securing it with every uscful qudi'y fuily developed. The t>i\\gular sueces which Mr Kpps attained by Jiis houice apathio prej arafion of cocoa has never b.-en surpassed by any experimentalist. F,ir and wide the reputation of Epps's Cocoi has spread by the simple iorce of iu own extraordinary merits. Meii-al men of all abides of opi ion h »ve agreed iu recjmm^ndingitasthesafs! ad most bncficial article of diet for persons of weak constitutions. This suporio;ry of a particular mode of preparation over clt others is a remarkable proof of the great results to be obtained i'.om little causes. Uy a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful applicaiion of the fine properties of wvllselected cocoa, Mr Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately thvoivd beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' biUs. It is by the judicious use of such articles of diet that a const iiu i>n may be gradually built up until su'jng enough to resist every tendency to di ease. Hundreds of turtle maladies are floating arou»d us ready to attack wherever there is a weak point. We may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well foiti£ed with pure blood and a properly nop-