One tablespoonful flour. One saltspoonful salt. One teaspoonful sugar. One cup boiling water. One cup milk. A little nutmeg or cinnamon✪ Flour Gruel. Mix flour, salt and sugar with a little cold water, then add boiling water and simmer twenty minutes. Add milk and flavoring. Serve hot. CHAPTER XXII. THE NURSERY AND SICK-ROOM. 1. TO PRESERVE HEALTH AND SAVE DOCTORS' BILLS II. THE CARE OF CHILDEEN. III. NURSERY BATHING. IV. DURATION OF AND PROPER TIME FOR BATHING V. EXERCISE OF CHILDREN. VI. STUDY AND REL.VXATION. VII. THE SICKROOM. VIII, COOKERY FOR INVALIDS. IX. TABLE OF FOODS AND TIME OF DIGESTION. X. SOME ANIMAL FOODS IN i HEIR ORDER OF DIGEST- IBILITY. XL THE TIME REQUIRED TO COOK VARIOUS ARTICLES. XII. COOKING FOR CONVA- LESCENTS—RECIPES AND DIRECTIONS. XIII. JELLY OK MEAT. XIV. OTHER SIMPLE DISHES. XV. GRUELS XVI. TEAS AND OTHER REFRESHING DRINKS. XVII. REMEDIES FOR THE SICK. XVm. DOSES AND THEIR GRADUATION. XIX. DISINFECTION. XX. TESTS FOR IMPURITIES IN WATER. XXI. SIMl'LE POISONS AND THEIR ANTIDOTES. XXII. VIRULENT POISONS AND THEIR ANTIDOTES. — XXIII. HEALTH-BOARD DISINFECTANTS. XXIV. HOW TO USE DISINFECT- ANTS. I. To Preserve Health and Save Doctors' Bills. ||HE preservation of health is of far greater importance than to dose a man after he is sick. To gratify " a false hunger," or slake " a false thirst," are only provocatives to disease. It should be remembered that we live not by what we eat, but by what we digest. Neither Walpole, who thought that with diet and patience all diseases might be cured ; nor Montesquieu, who held that health, pur- chased by vigorously watching over diet, was but a tedious disease, was far from the mark. But a wise discretion in eating is better than all. Heed the Stomacb.. — " What is one man's meat is another man's poison," is an old saying, and a true one. If every person would study his own individual powers, and learn to respect his stomach, to remember that he has no more right to overload it with improper food than he has to drink to intoxication, he would save himself many an unnecessary ache and ailment. Chronic dyspepsia never came of regular occupation, abundant exercise, early hours, and generous, but not imprudent diet. If you wake in the morning with a headache and lassitude, you have probably not taken the advice of the " self-monitor," which has its home in the stomach. Conform to Nature. — Dean Nowell, although he may have blazed the way for red noses, did not grow strong by drinking ale. The Eajpoots who slay infants from pride do not kill so many infants as do Christian mothers with too much stuffing. The Bolton ass did not become fleet-footed by chewing tobacco and taking snuff. The New Zealand warriors were not made stout nor brave because their mothers thrust stones into their stomachs, as infants. And Brantome's uncle, who took gold, steel and iron, in powders, from weaning-time until twelve years of age, did not thereby acquire the strength to stop " a wild bull in full course." First Principles. — A certain Kentucky man — and Kentucky men Hvc much in the open air minded the silent monitor of the stomach. He was at a first-rate hotel [373] 274 TWENTIETH CENTURY HOME COOK BOOK. table, where the bill of fare was in French. After reading carefully the whole, he remarked, " I will o-o back to hrst principles, and take roast beef." He was not far wrono;. A good constitution, roast beef, vegetables, fruit, tea and coffee in modera- tion, with liberal exercise, will keep any one in health. If you have not the good constitution, get one by proper exercise, and a moder- ate l)ut generous diet. When you have got the constitution, keep it by avoiding excesses. Moderation is said to be the first principle of digestion. II. The Care of Children. Gentle Firmness. — All who undertake the care of children, or who have the

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One tablespoonful flour. One saltspoonful salt. One teaspoonful sugar. One cup boiling water. One cup milk. A little nutmeg or cinnamon. Mix flour, salt and sugar with a little cold water, then add boiling water and simmer twenty minutes. Add milk and flavoring. Serve hot. CHAPTER XXII. 1. TO PRESERVE HEALTH AND SAVE DOCTORS' BILLS II. THE CARE OF CHILDREN. III. NURSERY BATHING. IV. DURATION OF AND PROPER TIME FOR BATHING V. EXERCISE OF CHILDREN. VI. STUDY AND RELAXATION. VII. THE SICKROOM. VIII, COOKERY FOR INVALIDS. IX. TABLE OF FOODS AND TIME OF DIGESTION. X. SOME ANIMAL FOODS IN THEIR ORDER OF DIGEST- IBILITY. XL THE TIME REQUIRED TO COOK VARIOUS ARTICLES. XII. COOKING FOR CONVA- LESCENTS—RECIPES AND DIRECTIONS. XIII. JELLY OK MEAT. XIV. OTHER SIMPLE DISHES. XV. GRUELS XVI. TEAS AND OTHER REFRESHING DRINKS. XVII. REMEDIES FOR THE SICK. XVm. DOSES AND THEIR GRADUATION. XIX. DISINFECTION. XX. TESTS FOR IMPURITIES IN WATER. XXI. SIMPLE POISONS AND THEIR ANTIDOTES. XXII. VIRULENT POISONS AND THEIR ANTIDOTES. — XXIII. HEALTH-BOARD DISINFECTANTS. XXIV. HOW TO USE DISINFECT- ANTS. I. To Preserve Health and Save Doctors' Bills. ||HE preservation of health is of far greater importance than to dose a man after he is sick. To gratify " a false hunger," or slake " a false thirst," are only provocatives to disease. It should be remembered that we live not by what we eat, but by what we digest. Neither Walpole, who thought that with diet and patience all diseases might be cured ; nor Montesquieu, who held that health, purchased by vigorously watching over diet, was but a tedious disease, was far from the mark. But a wise discretion in eating is better than all. Heed the Stomacb.. — " What is one man's meat is another man's poison," is an old saying, and a true one. If every person would study his own individual powers, and learn to respect his stomach, to remember that he has no more right to overload it with improper food than he has to drink to intoxication, he would save himself many an unnecessary ache and ailment. Chronic dyspepsia never came of regular occupation, abundant exercise, early hours, and generous, but not imprudent diet. If you wake in the morning with a headache and lassitude, you have probably not taken the advice of the " self-monitor," which has its home in the stomach. Conform to Nature. — Dean Nowell, although he may have blazed the way for red noses, did not grow strong by drinking ale. The Rajpoots who slay infants from pride do not kill so many infants as do Christian mothers with too much stuffing. The Bolton ass did not become fleet-footed by chewing tobacco and taking snuff. The New Zealand warriors were not made stout nor brave because their mothers thrust stones into their stomachs, as infants. And Brantome's uncle, who took gold, steel and iron, in powders, from weaning-time until twelve years of age, did not thereby acquire the strength to stop " a wild bull in full course." First Principles. — A certain Kentucky man — and Kentucky men Hvc much in the open air minded the silent monitor of the stomach. He was at a first-rate hotel [373] table, where the bill of fare was in French. After reading carefully the whole, he remarked, " I will go back to first principles, and take roast beef." He was not far wrong. A good constitution, roast beef, vegetables, fruit, tea and coffee in moderation, with liberal exercise, will keep any one in health. If you have not the good constitution, get one by proper exercise, and a moderate l)ut generous diet. When you have got the constitution, keep it by avoiding excesses. Moderation is said to be the first principle of digestion. II. The Care of Children. Gentle Firmness. — All who undertake the care of children, or who have the

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