HOUSEHOLD MINTS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 358, 6 May 1911, Page 3

HOUSEHOLD MINTS.

o—@> Quoth a doctor: "Eat fruit for breakfast. Eat fruit for luncheon. Avoid pastry. Shun muffins and crumpets and buttered toast. Eat wholemeal bread. Decline potatoes if they are served more than once a day. Do not drink tea or coffee. Walk four miles every day. Wash the face every night in warm water and sleep eight hours. You will never then need nerve medicines." Nor will cosmetics be needed, unless there happens to be something radically wrong with the constitution. Bread should never be eaten svhen "slack-baked," as te bakers call it. If anyone ever examines the contents of a baker's barrow two dozen pallid and half-baked loaves will be seen to every half-dozen that are really brown and crusty. But those who desire to avoid indigestion should insist on having ail bread well baked. If this is persisted in there will be a little difficulty at first, but after a while the baker will be accustomed to the order, and will even bake loaves specially for such customers as insist upon crusty ones and decline to take any others. Sugar within reasonable limits is allowable, and its use may be left to the taste. But when too much is consumed it prevents the burning up of other food, and this leads to serious consequences. Not too many sweets, please, girls! Pickles are piquant, but their use is certainly not desirable. The craving for them sometimes noticeable in the young indicates a perverted taste and should be checked. Many a girl owes ill-health and a miserable complexion to an undue fondness for vinegar. The healthy appetite rarely asks for it. Liking for it increases by indulgence, and the result is a sallow skin, painful thinness, and nervous ailments.