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 Stale bread should always be eaten with these custards and puddings. But when bread is eaten as an accompaniment with other articles, no butter should be used upon it. A little good cheese may be eaten with the bread instead of butter, unless the state of health forbids it. In short, the greatest plainness and simplicity are always to be observed at each and every meal. Carefully avoid mixing together heterogeneous substances in the stomach at the same meal, and let the dish be simple. Either take flesh, bread, and potatoes; or hominy, or rice and milk; or hominy, or rice and molasses, or sugar: or bread and fruit, or some other equally simple dish, and make the meal on it; but do not mix these dishes together. Let the variety be from meal to meal, and not at the same mcal, and the food should always be eaten slowly and cheerfully.

. Supper.—The supper, or third meal, should consist of plain bread and butter, or bread with milk, or samp, hominy, or mush with milk, sugar, or molasses; or of simple indian meal, or oatmeal, or barley gruel, with or without bread. Noflesh, fish, or fruit, should be used at supper; nor should a fourth meal or lunch be taken between the third meal and retiring to bed.

. Tea, coffee, chocolate, and all fermented, malt and distilled, alcoholic and narcotic liquors,