Part 10

The last meal of the day should not be taken after seven o'clock at night. Disturbed rest and the habit of dreaming are an almost certain indication of errors in diet having been committed, or of this rule having been infringed.

Probably the most valuable prescription ever given to a patient was that given by Dr. Abernethy to a wealthy dyspeptic, "Live on sixpence a day and earn it."

Constipation can nearly always be cured by adding stewed figs, French plums, salads, etc., to one's menu, by eating brown instead of white bread, and by taking less proteid food.

Tea is detrimental to many persons. The tannin contained in it toughens albuminous food, and is liable to injure the sensitive lining of the stomach. China tea is the least harmful.

[Sidenote: =Rest after Meals.=]

Those who work their brains or bodies actively, immediately after a solid meal, simply invite dyspepsia. The vital force required for digestion is diverted and malnutrition follows. The deluded business-man who "cannot spare the time" for a short rest or stroll after lunch, often damages his constitution and finds that he has been "penny wise and pound foolish."

If the brain or body has been severely taxed, an interval of rest should be secured before food is taken. It is not _what we eat_ that nourishes us, but _what we are able to assimilate_. Recreation, occasional amusement, and an interest in life are necessary. Thousands of women die from monotony and continuous domestic care; multitudes of men succumb to mental strain and incessant business anxiety. Chronic dyspeptics should reflect on these facts.

Abstainers from animal-food who get into any difficulty about their diet should seek advice from those who have experience, or should consult a fruitarian physician. The local names and addresses of doctors who both practice and advise this simple and natural system of living, will be supplied upon application to the Hon. Secretary of The Order of the Golden Age. Such are increasing in number every month.

[Sidenote: =Physical Vitality.=]

The human body is a storage battery consisting of millions of cells in which the vital electricity that produces health, and makes life enjoyable, is accumulated.

Every manifestation of physical and mental power depends upon the force stored up in this battery. The more fully charged the cells the higher the voltage, and, consequently, the greater the physical vitality and power. This voltage is always fluctuating. Expenditure of force lessens it; recuperation, through rest, sleep, the in-breathing of oxygen, and the assimilation of vital uncooked food increases it.

Fruits, nuts, and root vegetables contain electrical potency--they will deflect the needle of a highly sensitive Kelvin galvanometer. But when cooked, their vital electricity is destroyed--they become _lifeless_, like flesh-food.

The accumulation of vital force is a possibility if natural and vital food is selected.

[Sidenote: =The Great Healer.=]

All the medicines in the world are as the small dust of the balance, potentially, when weighed against this Life-force--which "healeth all our diseases and redeemeth our life from destruction." Its therapeutic phenomena are truly wonderful.

When our bodies are invaded by malevolent microbes, the defensive corpuscles within us, if in fit condition, destroy them. But if not fed with those elements which are needful for their sustenance, they soon "run down"--just as we ourselves get "below par." We are then liable to become the prey of those ceaseless microscopic enemies that are ever ready to pounce upon the unfit.

If our corpuscles are weaker than the invading foes, no drugs can save us--we are doomed. Hence the importance of keeping ourselves and our nerve centres well charged and in vigorous condition.

[Sidenote: =How to Accumulate Vitality.=]

To accumulate vitality our food must contain all the chemical elements which we need. None must be permanently omitted. If, for instance, we entirely exclude organic phosphorus from the food of a man of great intellect, he will, in due time, be reduced to imbecility. This is obtained in such foods as cheese, milk, wholemeal bread, peas, apples, strawberries, and bananas.

We must live by _method_, and take some trouble. Nature's greatest gift is not to be obtained without thought or effort. We must eat, breathe, and live wisely; and the closer to Nature we get, the better it will be for us.

The habit of deep breathing, like that of living much in the open air, yields important results. The atmosphere consists of oxygen and nitrogen--the very elements of which our bodies are chiefly constructed. Life and vigour _can be inhaled_, but few persons have learnt the art.

Cheerfulness tends to promote the assimilation of food. Exercise--of an intelligent and healthful sort--is needful to make the life-current pulsate through our tissues. Without it our organs do not get properly nourished and rebuilt: stiffness and atrophy set in. Worry and care must be banished, and unwise or excessive expenditure of nerve force avoided; for these things deplete the human storage battery of its vitality.

Mankind is slowly gaining greater knowledge of vital, mental, and spiritual truth. Ultimately, "Life more abundant" will become the heritage of the many instead of the few.

Self-emancipation from weakness and disability is an achievement that will repay much effort on the part of each one of us; and we can all render beneficent social service by exemplifying the art of living wisely.

By promoting hygienic and humane education, we can prevent much suffering, and greatly increase the sum of happiness in this world!

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INDEX.

Page Almonds, Salted 85 Almond Soup 52 Ambrosia 101 Apple Custard 105 Apple Fritters 107 Apricots, Poached 106 Artichoke Soup 48 Artichokes, Fried Chinese 55 Artichokes, Green 55 Asparagus Soufflé 77 Aspic jelly 87

Baked Nuttoria 62 Bakewell Pudding 103 Barley Water 117 Boiled Pudding, Plain 107 Brawn, Picnic 88 Brazil Nut Soup 50 Bread, How to Make 112 Bread, White 115 Bread, Plain Currant 115 Bread, Wholemeal 114 Bread Pudding 101 Breakfast Dish, A 79 Broth, Brown Haricot 49 Broth, Mock Chicken 123 Brown Bean Cutlets 58 Brown Haricot Soup 49 Brussels Sprouts Sauté 78 Brussels Sprouts, à la Simone 80 Buns, Plain Currant 115 Bun Cake, Sultana 116

Cabbage Salad 91 Cabbage Soufflé 77 Cakes, Sultana 116 Cakes, Small 103 Carnos Sauce 98 Carnos Soup 54 Carrot Soup 54 Cauliflower au Gratin 83 Celery Soup 53 Castle Puddings 102 Cheese and Tomato Paste 92 Cheese Sauce 98 Cheese Rissoles, Savoury 78 Cheesecakes, Lemon 110 Cheese Straws 116 Chestnut Soup 48 Chestnut and Mushroom Pudding 82 Chestnut Soufflé 77 Chestnut Stew 85 Chestnut Cream 111 Christmas pudding 99 Coconut Sauce 97 Coconut Custard, Baked 109 Coconut Cream 111 Corsican Dish, A 78 Creamed Macaroni 70 Croquettes, Milanese 81 Croûtes à la Valencia 84 Curry Gravy 95 Custard Moulds 103 Curried Cauliflower 83 Curried Rice and Peas 72 Curried Lentils 82

Dinner Rolls 115

Eggs à la Crême 74 Egg and Cress Sandwiches 91 Eggs à l'Italienne 75 Eggs, Mayonnaise 74 Eggs, Scrambled 75 Eggs Florentine 74 Empress Pudding 108

Figs, Jellied 101 Fillets of Mock Sole 56 Frittamix Rissoles 85 Fruit Drink 118 Fruit Sauce 98 Fruit Salad 99 Fruitarian Mincemeat 110

Galantine alla Bolognese 86 Gateau aux Fruits 106 Gingerade 118 Ginger Pudding 108 Glaze, Marmite 97 Gravy Soup 49 Gravies 94 Gravy Piquante 95 Gravy, Rich Brown 96 Gravy, Plain Brown 95 Green Pea Cutlets 58 Green Pea Soufflé 76 Green Pea Soup 51 Green Pea Galantine 88 Gravy, Quick Lunch 98 Gruel, Lentil 124

Haricot Soup, Brown 49 Haricot Soup, White 52 Haricot Cutlets 59 Haricot Cutlets, White 61 Haricot Meat, Potted 92 Haricot, Potted White 90 Haricot, Potted Savoury 91 Haricot Brown Broth 123 How to Cook Rice 70 Hygiama Apple Purée 123

Jelly, Orange 108 Jugged Nuttose 64 Julienne Soup 50

Kedgeree 78

Lentil and Potato Sausages 65 Lentil Soufflé 77 Lentil Soup, Green 51 Lentil Soup, Egyptian 50 Lentil Cutlets 61 Lentil Cutlets, Green 81 Lentils, Curried 82 Lentil Croquettes 62 Lentil Pudding 84 Lentils, Potted Savoury 90 Lentil Gruel 124 Lemon Creams 104 Lemon Cheesecakes 110 Lemon Jelly 110 Lemon Sponge 106 Linseed Tea 124

Macaroni à la Turque 69 Macaroni Cutlets 69 Macaroni, Creamed 70 Macaroni Napolitaine 69 Macaroni, Savoury 70 Macaroni and Tomato Pudding 70 Malted Milk Prune Whip 125 Malted Milk Jelly 125 Malted Milk with Iced Fruit 125 Malted Milk, Effervescent 125 Marbles, Savoury Golden 82 Marmalade Pudding 102 Marmite Glaze 97 Marmite Savoury Gravy 97 Marmite Toast 85 Marmite Vegetarian Soup 52 Mayonnaise Eggs 74 Mayonnaise Sauce 97 Milk Cheese 93 Minced Nut-Meat 65 Mock Chicken Broth 123 Mock Chicken Rolls 66 Mock Turtle Soup 49 Mock Fish Cutlets 56 Mock Fish Roe 56 Mock Hake Steaks 57 Mock Hare Soup 53 Mock White Fish 57 Mock Chicken Cutlets 60 Mock Lobster Shapes 87 Mock Oyster Patties 55 Mock Scallop Oysters 55 Mock Steak Pudding 66 Mock Sweetbread Quenelles 61 Mushroom Pie 62 Mushroom & Potato Croquettes 66

Nut Croquettes 60 Nut Sandwiches 90 Nut-Meat à la Mode 63 Nut-Meat Rissoles 64 Nut-Meat Galantine 86, 89 Nut-Meat Rolls 89 Nuttose Ragout 64

Oat-Cream 124 Oatenade 117 Omelet, A Simple 73 Omelette aux Fines Herbes 75 Omelette aux Tomates 73 Onions à la Mode Francaise 80 Onion Soup 54 Orange Jelly 108 Oeufs Farcée en Aspic 75

Parsley Sauce 96 Pea Soup 53 Picnic Brawn 88 Pine Kernel Timbale 68 Plasmon Snow Cream 107 Plum Puddings 99, 100 Potato Croquettes 82 Potato Purée 80 Potato Soup 53 Potatoes, Escalloped 81 Prated Gruel 124 Protose Cutlets 63 Protose Rolls 89 Protose Pudding 92 Puff Pastry 111

Raised Pie 87 Raspberry Pudding 104 Rice à la Reine 105 Rice alla Romana 71 Rice, Milanese 71 Rice Cutlets, proteid 72 Rice, Savoury 71 Rice, Sicilian 72 Rice Moulds, Creamed 101 Rice and Peas, Curried 72 Rice and Sultana Pudding 107 Rice and Tomato Rissoles 73 Rice Pudding, Savoury 84 Rice Water 118 Risi Piselli 73

Salad Dressing 93 Salsify, Filleted 57 Sauce Hollandaise 96 Sauce Piquante 95 Sauce, Thick Brown 98 Savoury Lentil Roll 68 Sausages, Neapolitan 84 Savoury Rissoles 78 Savoury Sausages 67 Savoury Chestnut Mould 67 Savoury Golden Marbles 82 Savoury Nut-Meat Steaks 63 Savoury Macaroni 70 Semolina Pudding 109 Semolina Lemon Pudding 104 Semolina Moulds 102 Short Pastry 110 Soubise Soup, White 51 Spinach and Eggs 76 Spinach à la Crême 76 Spinach Fritters 79 Spinach Soufflé 76 Stewed Prunes 103 Strawberry Cream 102 Strawberry Ice 109 Stuffed Yorkshire Pudding 65 Sultana Pudding 100 Sultana Custard Pudding 105 Sultana and Ginger Pudding 100 Sultana Cakes 116 Swiss Roll 105

Tarragon Sauce 96 Tea and Coffee Substitutes 118 Tomatoes, Baked Stuffed 79 Tomatoes au Gratin 80 Tomato or Egg Sandwiches 90 Tomato Soup 50 Tomato Galantine 88 Tomatoes, Grilled 83 Tomato Mayonnaise 89 Tomato Paste, Potted 92 Tomato Sauce 96 Tomato Chutney 97

Vanilla Creams 104 Vanilla Ice 109 Vegetable Marrow, Baked 81 Vegetable Marrow, Stuffed 59, 79 Vegetable Stock 48

Walnuts, Purée of 60 Walnut Gravy 94 Walnut Pie 67 Wheatenade 117 White Sauce 97 White Windsor Soup 54 Walnut Cutlets 58 Walnut Rissoles 59

Yorkshire Pudding 65, 83

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