A Sensible Diet.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 156, 12 June 1886, Page 7

A Sensible Diet.

A " Family Doctoii '" writer :— I began by characterising attack ° of mdi^e-iion meioly s>mtomatic of weaklier, and suggesting toning up the system as a cure, b.-,t this must bo hand in hand with regulation of diet. Well, to be practical, would any lady or gentleman cmi-ider diet like the foliowintf.a starvation one ? Let them liy it before th a y reply: — 7.30 a.m. — A cup of cocatina and milk. Bam.— (Jold or tepid bath. Rough towelling. Ten minutes' dumb-billing. Drees slowly. Five minutes' walk in the garden. 8.45 a.m.— Breakfast, No tea'or coffee, Cocatina and milk Toast or t^alo biead White fi-h ; underdone steak or chop. Lightly-boiled eggs. 1.30 p in.— Lunch. Alittle of whatever is know, nto agree. A slice of beef or niutton, or a few oysters. Gp m. —Dinner. No soup. White fish ; Beef, mutton, fowl, game. No rich pauces, No made dishes. No pastry or cheese. Vegetables in modeiation, preferably potatoes, aeakale, or cauliflower. 8 30 p.m —Light supper of. whatever is known to agreo. To bed. at . eleven.' If )iungry, eat a biscuit first and drink a tumbler of soda- water with ten grains of bicarbonite ?i soda in it. Sleep in a welJventilated ioom on a hard mattress and lightly covered.

Mr BaHanco's celebrated "taiaha" haa been declined by the Libraiy Committee of the Houb(? of Representatives. Thirty thousand working men in Berlin have begun an agitation for improved priceß and hours. The wretched pay is driving many .women to vice, '