To Be Strong And Fair

One wise wotnan in Cliicago pins her faith both for herself and her dattghter to a Garden of Eden breakfast during the sumtner. The original idea was to eat nothing but fruit, but she found this diet insufficient, so she added a cereal and perhaps a graham cracker or two to the breakfast menu. This fare, together with lemonade, orangeade, fruit juices or root beer to drink, rendered that family the envy of all their acqaintances. Figs, dates, prunes, stewed currants, and even dried apples can be made to do duty for this purpose, and it is surprising what an amount of nourishmeut and working strength can be extracted from a fruit diet. Apples, oranges, shadoeks, bananas and eanned fruit, of course, are excellent fare for spring, but the cheaper dried fruits are b' no means to be despised. In Èngland this régimen, with the additiou of brown bread and butter or cream, is followed all the year round with the children of upper-class famiilies, and the Scotch choose oatmeal for a similar use. In many places on the continent black bread and a piece of watermelon, cucumber or an onion is the standard breakfast- oftentimes the dinner and supper, too- of the average workingman. Our own western children are proof ot what good flesh and bone can be built on a steady diet of corn meal. Oat meal is a little too heavy, and rice, cracked or whole, hominy, or yellow corn meal should be substituted for breakfast. The more of these dishes, served with fruit and cream, you can eatthroughout the day, the sooner you will have forgotten that you have been 11. In addition to the beverages airead}' mentioned, all phosphates are good. Wheat or rye coffee is the reverse of harmful, and nothing can be better than a glass of water flavored with unfermented grape juice. This inay be taken clear if you are very weak and can afford it, and if you feel that you must have something hot to drink, take hot milk, well salted, and drink it whether you like it or not. At one of the famous sanitariums in America hot milk several times a day, sipped slowly and taken as near boiling as possible, isinsisted upon with ail the weak or nervous patients. It is famous for producing healthy flesh, and is an innocent and never failing stimulant whenone is exhausted at any time of the year. Beef tea ia good, too, at most times, but the less meat or meat extract you take just now the better.