g into undue activity by the extremes of our
climate, and the often unavoidable conditions of American society, these
should all be unknown drinks. The time will come soon enough, when the
demands of adult life will create a necessity for these indispensable
accompaniments of civilization; but before the time when the girl enters
upon the active duties of a woman, they only stimulate to debilitate.

It cannot be too often repeated, that the appetite and the taste for
certain kinds of food are, to a greater degree than is usually
acknowledged, merely the results of education; and the mother who sees
her daughter pale and sickly, and falling gradually under the dominion
of dyspepsia, in any of its multitudinous forms or results, and who
seeks the physician's aid, has too often only her own neglect to blame,
when the medicines fail to cure. From the food is manufactured the
blood; from the blood all parts of the living tissue of every organ; not
only bone and muscle cells, but nerve cells are built up from it, and if
the blood be not of the best quality, either from the fact that the food
was not of proper material or properly digested, not only the digestive
organs, but the whole system, will be weak. Moreover, those organs which
await for their perfect development a later time than the others will be
most apt to suffer from the result of long-established habits, and it is
as true of the human body as of a chain, that no matter where the strain
comes, it will break at its weakest part. The truth of what is here
stated may be illustrated by the teeth, which are formed at different
periods of life. Many have a perfect set of what are known as first
teeth; but in too many children in our American homes, the second teeth
make their first appearance in a state of incipient decay, while it has
become almost proverbial, that the wisdom teeth are of no use, except to
the dentist. Mothers have only to consult easily procured books to learn
the kinds of food most easily digestible, and most nourishing. That they
do not do so, results from the seeming general belief, that this matter
of eating will take care of itself, and that it does not come within the
province of education. The whole matter lies in the hands of women. The
physician can do but little, because he can know but little. It is the
intelligent women of America who must realize the evil, and must right
the wrong, if we would see our girls what we most earnestly desire the