What Women Eat

belief that wonien eat nothing. It is, of course concedod that they sustain lifo by the consumption of sotno article of nourishment; but eating, in the whple acceptancc of the word, ia supposed to bo foreign to femalo nature. This fallacy ia i'ounded and sustained by women themselves, vrho, during the affected period of thoir livos, cultívate small appetitos nu bcingof somi-angolic construction. fl'hn this pornicious nonsense is consiuentously carried out, the result upon the nroold-be angels ars squalor, red nosos, certain loss of vigor, general íinipidnoss, and soino other unpleasant consequcmces. But, u.i a rule, tho smallest appetites at the fashionable tablos are exhibited by tho$p shrowd givls whoso natural and healthy wants havo boen thoroughly appeaged by secret stuffinr. Need we refer ooi readers to tho historical poem conceming Violante in tho pantry, frnawing of a mutton bone, reminding thera how sim gnawed it, how she clawed it, when shu found herself aionet All this is a direct doceit, however, practiced upon unsophistioatea old bachlors, who, wbett th(y havo made tho dainty crcatures tlicirs, iind out by the butcher's book an ooular proof what atunly trencher-womcn thoy have married. Watch a hoftlthy girl at supper, during the interrals of Sancing ; sho consumes by insteilments four timos as much as u-.i partner, and seems, and is, n.mo the worse for it. Our experience tells is that women eat, in prOportion to their ■Wfiglit, as much as men, and air; no moro fairips in this respect than in 'lm matter of