ool drags wearily
Simple lunches desirable
Suggestions for putting up the lunch
Creamy rice
Neatness and daintiness essential
The lunch basket
Sabbath dinners
A needed reform
Feasting on the Sabbath, deleterious results of
Simple meals for the Sabbath
A Sabbath bill of fare
Table topics.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

THE ALIMENTARY CANAL
AN OVEN THERMOMETER
CONVENIENT KITCHEN TABLE
A DOUBLE BOILER
COMPARTMENT SINK FOR DISH-WASHING OPEN
COMPARTMENT SINK FOR DISH-WASHING CLOSED
THE STEAM COOKER
VEGETABLE PRESS
LEMON DRILL
THE HANDY WAITER
WALL CABINET
PERCOLATER HOLDER
KNEADING TABLE
DISH TOWEL RACK
VEGETABLE BRUSH
A DOUBLE BOILER
SECTIONAL VIEW OF WHEAT KERNEL
MEASURING CUPS
BREAD PAN
MEXICAN WOMEN MAKING TORTILLAS
STONE METATE
GEM IRONS
PERFORATED SHEET IRON PAN FOR ROLLS
MAKING UNFERMENTED BREAD
CANNING UTENSILS
BAIN MARIE
CHINESE SOUP STRAINER
CREAMERY
ORIENTAL BUTTER MAKING
ARRANGEMENTS FOR STRAINING STOCK
GRUEL STRAINER
EXTENSION STRAINER
WIRE DISHCLOTH
A PICNIC DINNER

INTRODUCTION.

No one thing over which we have control exerts so marked an influence
upon our physical prosperity as the food we eat; and it is no
exaggeration to say that well-selected and scientifically prepared food
renders the partaker whose digestion permits of its being well
assimilated, superior to his fellow-mortals in those qualities which
will enable him to cope most successfully with life's difficulties, and
to fulfill the purpose of existence in the best and truest manner. The
brain and other organs of the body are affected by the quality of the
blood which nourishes them, and since the blood is made of the food
eaten, it follows that the use of poor food will result in poor blood,
poor muscles, poor brains, and poor bodies, incapable of first-class
work in any capacity. Very few persons, however, ever stop to inquire
what particular foods are best adapted to the manufacture of good blood
and the maintenance of perfect health; but whatever gratifies the palate
or is most conveniently obtained, is cooked and eaten without regard to
its dietetic value. Far too many meals partake of the characteristics of
the one described in the story told of a clergyman who, when requested
to ask a blessing upon a d