Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I.

a reasonable age without becoming too robust. Civilization can instruct us so to manag

lle

a morir quan

hat, for the use of a baby, then about eight months old she had spent nine pounds in "Infant's Preservative." Of this, or of some like preparation, the advertisements tel

in whatever contains much carbon: fat and starchy vegetables, potatoes, gum, sugar, alcoholic liquors. If a person take more nourishment than he wants, it is said to be wasted; if he take more fuel than he wants, part of it is wasted, and part of it the body stacks away as fat. These men of science furthermore assert, that the correct diet of a healt

r a growing a

1 to

al 1

ey 1

d for an animal

oes 1

1 t

ps 1

tapioca, s

h 1 t

tapioca, and the like; quite ready to be taught by you that so we give one particle of nourishment in twenty-six. Tell us, this diet is like putting

thout fat, and fresh [pg 609] meat for its dinner-when it is old enough to bite it-with a little well-cooked vegetable. Th

ge them nuts; but our boys shall rebel against all this. We will teach them to regard cake as bliss, and wine as glory; we will educate them to a love of tarts. Once let our art secure over the stomach its ascendency, and the civilized organ acquires new desires. Vitiated cravings, let the sanitary doctors

re quite famous for their sound white teeth; and Mr. Richardson tells us of tribes among the Arabs of Sahara, whose beautiful teeth he lauds, that they are in the habit of keeping about them a stick of sugar in a leathern case, which they bring o

butter, and correct the butter with cayenne. We will take sauces, we will drink wine, we will drink beer, we will eat pie-crust, we will eat indescribable productions-we will take celery, and cheese, and ale-we will take liqueur-we will take wine and oli

ed therein, becomes a compound hateful to the stomach. We will eat pies, we will ea

, arnotto, size, etc. Who cares for Mr. Rugg? London milk is better than country milk, for London cows are town cows. They live in a city, in close sheds, in

are not glad to be made cheerful harmlessly. For this reason I think it is that the use of tea and coffee has become popular; and since whatever sustains cheerfulness advances health-the body working with good will under a pleasant master-tea does our service little good. In excess, no doubt, it can be rendered hurtful (so can bread and butter); but the best way o

e excess of these makes fat; they, therefore, who have least need of fa

Mussulman; but children of winter, the Scandinavians, could not imagine Paradise complete without it. Schrimner, the sacred hog, cut up daily and eaten by the tenants of Walhalla, collected his fragments in the night, and was in his sty again ready for slaughter the next morning. These things concern us little, for it is not with plain meat that we have here to do, but with the noble art of Cook

g