COLATE PARAFAIT

Place in a mixing bowl

White of one egg,
One-half glass of apple jelly.

Beat until the mixture holds its shape and then fold in one cup of
whipped cream and then prepared chocolate. Pour into a mould and pack
with ice and salt for two and one-half hours.

To prepare the chocolate: Place one cup of sugar in a saucepan and add
five tablespoons of water. Heat slowly to the boiling point, and then
boil for one minute, then add two ounces of chocolate, cut in tine
pieces. Stir until the chocolate is melted, taking care that the
mixture does not boil, then add

One-quarter teaspoon of cinnamon,
One teaspoon of vanilla.

Beat to mix. Cool, and add to the prepared cream.

DIET TO REDUCE WEIGHT

Correct eating is essential to health and because of this the proper
cooking and serving of food plays an important part, in either the
building up or reducing of weight to a desired average.

As a rule, stout people seldom realize that they are eating food that,
is entirely unsuited to them; and not only do they love starchy and
over-rich foods, but also they frequently consume a liberal portion of
sweets.

Now unwise eating seldom produces its effects at once. When noticed,
the body is already burdened with heavy layers of fat, that not only
cause their bearer to be distressed and uncomfortable, but also cause
disease.

Not all of us can eat every food that is put before us, but we can so
arrange our menus that we will be able to balance the diet and in this
way supply the body with just its required needs.

Eating over-large portions of rich desserts, fatty foods and starchy
products causes these foods to turn into a fatty tissue, and then
be stored in the body as adipose tissue. So, in order to get good
results, the person who wishes to reduce should learn to thoroughly
chew all foods. By this I mean chew the food very fine, so that it
will be thoroughly mixed with the saliva and then flow without much
effort to the stomach.

You know that all starchy foods are changed by the action of the
saliva into invert sugars; they then go to the stomach where they are
thoroughly diluted with gastric juices and finally passed into the
intestines, where the final processes of digestion take place.

This form of starch is stored by the liver and kidneys, and thus
passes out to the various tissues to be held in the body as fat.

To reduce this fleshy tissue it is necessary to prevent the stor