LITTLE THINGS BY Charles Robert Morrison

The bread, the pie, the cake that our mother used to make may have
been more substantial, even if less palatable, than that of present-day
science. We are not anxious to return to the "good old days" of early
cookery; we hope yet to see better foods prepared, and to enjoy them,
than any boasted of in the past.
More and more are we beginning to appreciate the necessity of good
cooking; not the elaborate and peculiarly concocted dishes of special
occasions--but instruction concerning the preparation of seasonable
food for the system. Cooking schools, like other professional schools, or
hours of special training in cooking in the public school, as in matters
of manual training, will be honored and appreciated when it is found
out how essential such things are to health. Consider well when you are
at the table, eat to live; eat slowly; be temperate in all things. Let Dr.
Diet be your attendant physician. Heed his instruction; follow closely his
prescription.
2. Adequate Sleep.
Beecher said: "Working consumes, sleep replaces; working exhausts,
sleeping repairs; working is death, sleep is life. The man who sleeps
little, repairs little; if he sleeps poorly, he repairs poorly. If he uses up
all the day less energy than he accumulates at night, he will gain in life
and vigor. If he uses up all the energy that he gains at night, he will just
hold his own. If he uses more energy by day than he gathers at night, he
will lose; and if this last process be long continued, he must succumb. A
man who would be a good worker, must see to it that he is a good
sleeper."
John Wesley exhibited a page in his note-book, on which was written,
after a number of dates, the significant entry: "Lost thirty minutes of
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