Cost: Soup, 4c.; potatoes, 1c.; rolls 4c.; milk and cream, 5c.; rice custard, 6c.

    Total, 20 cents, or 5 cents each.

    BREAKFAST NO. 3

    Baked Apples
    Graham Grits with Cream
    Cream Toast
    Graham Gems
    Graham and Whole-Wheat Wafers
    Stewed Prunes

    BREAKFAST NO. 4

    Oatmeal with Cream
    Blueberry Toast
    Breakfast Rolls
    Graham and Whole-Wheat Wafers
    Stewed Apples

    DINNER NO. 3

    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 and aching heads for days to come.