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Show t potatoes were saturated with fat and almost impossible of diction. There were hot rolls, soggy looking look-ing from the oven; parsnips fried in lard and reeking with grease. A pile of cheap cake3, sufficient to fill a good sized four quart measure, meas-ure, stood on one corner of the table; also two pies, with crust containing so much lard that they looked absolutely greasy. There was coffee, dark and rank looking and worse smelling, and this the children were indulging in to any quantity they pleased. They ate like little wolves, with an unnatural unnatu-ral and ferocious appetite. . Two of them had pasty, uuhealthy look-ing look-ing complexions, one was evidently suffering from some skin disease; the elder of the group had an ugly looking eruptiou on hi 3 face and ears, and the entire lot were living examples of the results of mistaken system of feeding. It was no surprise sur-prise to the visitor to hear a few A PLEA FOR PLAIN FOOD. It is not generally understood fact, but a fact, nevertheless, that some of the worthiest, wrst luxurious luxuri-ous looking people live on tho plainest plai-nest food. There are children in. the families of millionaire who would no more be permitted to partake as such meals as are given, to the children of a laboring man no more than they would be permitted per-mitted to use articles well known to be poisonous. Many a mechanic's mech-anic's little one.3 live on moit, warm bread, all. the butter 'they want, and that of an inferior quality, qual-ity, helping themselve; to all they choose, and cheap baker's cake which is in itsalf enough to ruin tho digestion of an ostrich. The children of one family make days later that two of them were ill, one hopelessly so, with cholera morbus. That tho death rate among such people does not increase with frightful rapidity is the one thing th .t the thoughtful persons and philanthropists never ceaseto wonder won-der at. Thepirent of these children would undoubtedly s lid that they gave their littlo ones the best they could afford but this was just exactly ex-actly the cause of all the trouble. They gave them too much and too expensive fo:d. A proper diet would have cost a third of the money and would have saved health and doctor's bills, to say nothing of their lives. New .York Ledger. their breakfast on ontmeal or some other cereal and milk, with bread at least twenty-four hoara old, a' little and very little, butter, sometimes some-times varied by earn meal, well done, a little zwieb'ick and somo-. somo-. time a little stale bread'dipped in eggs and cracker crumbs and browned with butter, Afresh egg is often the only article ouUida of farinaceous food that is allowed. For diuner, which id the middle of the d ty, they have soma wel cooked cook-ed meat, one or two vegetables, a cup of ra'lk if they like it. or weak coco?, with plenty of bread and butter and a simple desert. Supper, Sup-per, which is a very light, meal, frequently consists of graham crackers cra-ckers or brown bread and milk or pudding, eaten with a little molasses mola-sses or maple syrup. A few days ago, in a call at the house of a workman, there were live children seated at the table, on which was a large dish of meat, swimming with gravy, in which potato33 had been cooked. These |