Bean Soup with Croutons
Mashed Potatoes
Pearl Wheat
Macaroni with Tomato Sauce
Oatmeal Crackers
Patent Flour Bread
Fresh Apples

DINNER NO. 4

Rice Soup
Baked Potatoes with Cream Gravy
Baked Beans
Graham Crackers
Whole-Wheat Bread
Fresh Apples
Farina with Cream

Material necessary to furnish these four meals for eight persons,--
Six lbs. flour, 18c.;
two lbs. crackers, different varieties, 20c.;
pearl wheat, oatmeal, graham grits, and farina, one half lb. each, 10c.;
one peck apples, 30c.;
prunes, 10c.;
one half lb. rice, 3-1/2c.;
two lbs. beans, 8c.;
one can tomatoes, 10.;
one half peck of potatoes, 13c.;
blueberries, 10c.;
eight qts. milk, 32c.;
macaroni, 5c.;
sugar, 1-1/2c.

Total, $1.71, or cost to each individual, 5-2/3 cents a meal.

TABLE TOPICS.

The food on which the man who would be healthy should live must be
selected so as to ensure variety without excess.--_Dr. Richardson._

Hearty foods are those in which there is an abundance of potential
energy.--_Prof. Atwater._

AN OLD-FASHIONED RECIPE FOR A LITTLE HOME COMFORT.--Take of thought
for self one part, two parts of thought for family; equal parts of
common sense and broad intelligence, a large modicum of the sense of
fitness of things, a heaping measure of living above what your
neighbors think of you, twice the quantity of keeping within your
income, a sprinkling of what tends to refinement and aesthetic
beauty, stirred thick with the true brand of Christian principle,
and set it to rise.--_Sel._

For all things have an equal right to live.
'T is only just prerogative we have;
But nourish life with vegetable food,
and shun the sacrilegious taste of blood.--_Ovid._

A BATCH OF DINNERS

HOLIDAY DINNERS,

A Special dinner for a holiday celebration has so long been a
time-honored custom in most families, that the majority of housewives
consider it indispensable. While we admire the beautiful custom of
gathering one's friends and neighbors around the hospitable board, and
by no means object to a special dinner on holiday occasions, yet we are
no wise in sympathy with the indiscriminate feastings so universally
indulged in at such dinners, whereby stomachs are overloaded with a
decidedly unhealthful quality of food, to be followed by dull brains