her._

To fare well implies the partaking of such food as does not disagree
with body or mind. Hence only those fare well who live
temperately.--_Socrates._

The aliments to which the cook's art gives a liquid or semi-liquid
form, are in general more digestible.--_Dictionaire de Medicine._

In the most heroic days of the Grecian army, their food was the
plain and simple produce of the soil. When the public games of
ancient Greece were first instituted, the _athleta_, in accordance
with the common dietetic habits of the people, were trained entirely
on vegetable food.

The eating of much flesh fills us with a multitude of evil diseases
and multitudes of evil desires.--_Perphyrises, 233 A.D._

No flocks that range the valley free
To slaughter I condemn;
Taught by the Power that pities me,
I learn to pity them.
But from the mountain's grassy side
A guiltless feast I bring;
A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied
And water from the spring.

--_Goldsmith._

BREAKFAST DISHES

A good breakfast is the best capital upon which people who have real
work to do in the world can begin the day. If the food is well selected
and well cooked, it furnishes both cheer and strength for their daily
tasks. Poor food, or good food poorly prepared, taxes the digestive
powers more than is due, and consequently robs brain and nerves of
vigor. Good food is not rich food, in the common acceptation of the
term; it is such food as furnishes the requisite nutriment with the
least fatigue to the digestive powers. It is of the best material,
prepared in the best manner, and with pleasant variety, though it may be
very simple.

"What to get for breakfast" is one of the most puzzling problems which
the majority of housewives have to solve. The usually limited time for
its preparation requires that it be something easily and quickly
prepared; and health demands that the bill of fare be of such articles
as require but minimum time for digestion, that the stomach may have
chance for rest after the process of digestion is complete, before the
dinner hour. The custom of using fried potatoes or mushes, salted fish
or meats, and other foods almost impossible of digestion, for breakfast
dishes, is most pernicious. These foods set completely at variance all
laws of breakfast hygiene. They are very difficult of digestion, and the
thirst-provoking quality