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Show THE QUESTION OF FOOD. IH Necessity for Humoring Individual 11 Peculiarities. ? Poor cooking was found to be tho lM caiiEe of no less than tour hundred j M cases of wlfo desertion In Chicago M last year. That tho same Is tho un- M del lying reason of thousands ot cases of drunkencss thero can be no possl- M hie doubt. Women should roflect very M cnicfully before Imposing any food fad j M on their families. Tho no breakfast i M Idea may or may not bo a good one, ' M but It is cortalnly bad when it is un- M wllllrgly ndo-ned. Thero Is no epios- j M tlon which is as Individual as that J H which concerns diet. A child must H bo governed in his eating, of course ' but grown men should bo permitted to , M rollow their own tnstos. Even whero M those tastes aro known to bo open to criticism tho wise woman will over- ' look the fact rather than run tho risk , H of substituting a worse condition of Tl nffnlrs. She will drink substitutes H for coffco herself, eat raw food, or ,' vegetables instead of meat, but Bho ' M will forbear to insist upon the other H members of tho family following her H example. H Widow of Well-Known Author. H Mrs. Smith, widow of Dr. S. F. H Smith, tho author of "America," was M 00 years old last Sunday, She Is tho j H granddaughter of Dr. Hezoklah Smith, " H who for six years was brigade chap- ' H lain In tho continental army during I H tho revolution and n warm personal , LH friend of Wnshington. For over forty H years sho has been a resldont of Now- ' H ton, Mass. M Solace Defeated Politician. , H Tho lato speaker of tho parliament ' jS of Victoria, F, Conway Mason, was IH defeated at the recent general olcctlon k ,H after thlrty-thico years' scrvlco in tho J' saino constituency and be considers I 9 that ho has been treated unkindly, and j" jfl ungratefully, l)y way of consolation .HJ his friends and admlreis collected a 'f 'H purse of sovereigns and presented M them to him with a complimentary ad- Hi dress. i SJ I'll |