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Show I HIT IS EAT H IV (By Eu3ene Christian, F. S. D.) I M What True Eating Means. mil I '9 Bat what is put before you and ask ' CT Ho questions. I jMl Kat all that is on your plate Eat on the "dot' at a certain time ' JBl every day. IfM These are old adage that have jH done people a great deal of harm I 'ym First of all one should not eat what I SB Bpt before them unless it appeals M to the taste They should not rat It r something else would taste better provided they can get that somethincj ."VkB oIsp because natural taste or hunger Is about the only guide we have in re-M re-M gard in the kind of fond the bodyj tfl needs, and again, you should not eat i a" tbat is od your plate unless bun ! ger demands it for overeating is the! .ffiB crowning sin nf civilized man. and third, we should never eat unit )6S we Jam are hungry Eating on the dot" at ;9W a certain hour every day Is all wrong unless there is ample hunger to jus 3M tify it. jSM The man who takes a cocktail pv ;x9 ery morning at 10 o'clock and another jH one every afternoon at 4 is sure to J3B develop an appetite for cocktails at i those two hours. A man who cats at Jmm rertaln minute every day will do- velop a desire to cat at that how whether he needs it or not K lit should at a little too much for break rnst. the noon meal should bo put of until there was normal hunger anr if hp should slightly overeat at noon 1 the evening meal should bp either pm off awhile or madp very light II would bp much bpttpr however to pro lone the timp between thp meals un til there was natural craving lor I lood. Most people are trained to believe that everything is food that it put l upon a table to eat. No greater error then this could he made. Somp doctors ind a few scientists have claimed that alcohol, commonly ! termed liquor, accordiiiR to this defi-i defi-i nition Is true food, and it lp food In i the sense that dynamite Is fuel The following ;irticlps of nourishment nourish-ment the body needs in any climatp while performing any kind of labor and at any age ran liiams Milk Vegetables Eggs Fruits TliPre are many things that will sustain lifp not mentioned in this table but that life will exist longer, will have more endurance, less sick ness and that both the bodv and mind will develop to higher degree of per -fection when subsisting upon these things there Is no loncer any ques-tion ques-tion among modern scientists The following Is a partial list of thing! called f r od that have no placet in the human economy and while the contain some nourishment the general hpaith of the oeopie would be much improved if thpy were en tirelv omitted from the dietary Meat Catsup Tea Soda Biscuit Toffee l ane sugar Beer I.ard Vinegar White Bread Salt and numerous other eoneotions such as era vies, sauces and the usual table condiments In rav next articlp I will givp some scientific facts about flesh food that' every housewife should understand. Questions and Answers. I note yol speak of a balanced diet in vour anieles. What is meant by a balanced diet J; B. L. Rpply. A balancpd diet is one that contains con-tains the requisite amount of protein ' uesn anu iissup nunuiug loon cpr-t cpr-t bohydrates. blood and energy making I food and fat. heat making food. These ' are the principle things one should balancp on Of course the diet should roniain a certain amount of the ni'n-oral ni'n-oral salts which are found In green vegetables FITTINGS OF BOUDOIR Time was that the fittings of a bo'i-doir bo'i-doir were made to serve an endless term of existence. Collecting dust I from year to year they were veritable ' germ-hatchers o one ever thought of cleaning the elaborate furbelows of silk and hand painted flower and stiff lace that comprised pincushions They couldn't be cleaned. When the' were worn out they were thrown awa And the trouble was thev rarely, if ever, wore out The cushions themselves them-selves were so fat and pudgv that you couldn't stick a pin In them if you wanted to, or once you did fly In the face of tradition and hammer in a pin. it w?s lost forever in foolisn cascades of lace. All that has changed Such cushions are still dlsulayed in the rear of show-ases show-ases by hopeful shopkeepers, but none save the benighted so much as look at them They serve merelv as a blurred background for the new pin f tishlon Daintily trim and useful it is. nd every week It goes to the tub That is its distinguishing feature The em-broidpred em-broidpred linen tops are fastened by nothing more restraining than a lacing lac-ing of ribbon or even bows at opposite oppo-site corners. Tt Is the work of but a moment to remove the top from the silk foundation pillow, which either plain or if the pillow has all blunt edge, shows a puffing of silk. The linen used ranges from hand kerchief to butchers' quality, according accord-ing to the sort of embroidery which Is to bp pxpended upon It Some truly exquisite tops come In sheerest linen covered with convent embroidery. embroid-ery. These are merely tacked to a pale pink foundation pillow by roseit.-s of pink baby r bbon at 'corners, and are usualh sq iare in shape thp linen reaching just to the edge of the pillow pil-low The heart-shaped ones arp beautiful gifts tor a bride. lustead of being fastened fas-tened with ribbon two eelets are! worked, and an arrov. which is really. B pin with n detachable arrowhead is thrust through the pillow In true Cu-pid's Cu-pid's dart fashion. Others are qj heavier linen with a mingling of French work and English eyelet work The edges are in points or scallops heavily worked and have an eyelet at the tip of each scallop .'The toil g duplicated by a plain hot I torn, scalloped and provided with an I embroidered eyelet The two are ad-I ad-I justed over the silk foundation cush i ion by Interlacing the two portions ! with tin satin ribbon. In this In- stance the edges of the pillow are blunt or rounded and the puffing of silk shows prettily between thp scal-' scal-' lops of llnpn and from under the 1 ribbon crlps-cros Fl tellers linen is made up Into 5-quaro with hemstitched or button hoiod edge and is ne'dom relieved by c-mbroldery These covers are for bard usage snd their stout properties do riot lend themselves to furbelows j They are pinned on Invisibly. For young girls, there come lacy 1 ob'ongs of valenclennes Insertion Joln-; Joln-; ed with beading and edged with n ! frill of lace. D'lcarely shaded ribbons j are run through the beading, which j crosses In the center, extends to the I comers and ends In huge rosettes. Baby pincushions are tiny heart-shaped heart-shaped ones embrolderod to match the pillow, and they alwayn have "baby" embroidered across the top. Handkerchief cushions, which conit In the bureau tet, are made from a single small mouoholr of sheerest i - linen edged w ith Insertion and a frill of lace. A PRETTY CARD CASE. The pretty embroidered card cases 1 one sees so much now can easily be I fashioned by the girl who is clever j with her needle One ?pen recently ' was made of huckaback linen, and ; the center was decorated with a , wreatJsjjjpf tiny French roses The ihucknoajk outside this wreath was darned bj running a colored silk thread underneath the cast-up threads ol the linen This darning extended to within an eighth of an Inch of the edge, and was then covered with a single outline stitch. The pockets were folded up neatly and the edne finished with a pecot buttonhole stiti h The little center wreath was done r In Dresden shades, and the darning A was carried out In beige to match the I owner's calling costume. . no |