Do you want to
PUT ON WEIGHT
or
TAKE IT OFF?
WO friends, Elizabeth and Margaret, spent Christmas with us. My family
There's a scientific,
long since adopted them for aunts non-fad,
and gave them the unfortunate nicknames of Skinny Lizzy and Plump Peggy.
When I said this was most undignified, the children. Answered, "Oh, all right then-Lean Eliza and Corpulent Margaret, how's that?"
i saw there was no doing anything with the family. right But Elizabeth and Margaret have put matters.
themselves.
the They
arc somewhere in thletics; I never can remember quite where, nor which is the elder of the They tend n normally busy [wo. life, Margaret running the house and Elizabeth doing a secretarial job.
They didn't believe It
VESTERDAY I had a letter from Elizabeth. She was wgry because Margaret had bor- rowed her new Jumper and gone off to town in it. The family cried with one accord, "It isn't true, it can't be true. Plump Peggy Just couldn't get Into Skinny Lizzy's jumper,"
But an accompanying snapshot anger was proved that Elizabeth's
only assumed to cover n justiñable pride. Elizabeth is no longer skinny. nor is Margaret too plump.
One got thin,
the other Fat
ELIZABETH
tali and Margaret rather dumpy, They like the same things to eat in general, have most of their meals together, and cat about the same amount.
The dismaying position at Christ- mas was that Elizabeth was getting thinner und thinner, while Margaret got faiter and fatter. And all the time they were eating twin meals. What were they to do about it?
She
pleasant way
of doing either. Try it out and
see how it works
A typical day's diet:
THIN ONE HAS
Cereal with milk. Egg and bacon White collec..
Cup of chocolate.
Buttered roast.
Plum cake
Thick soup.
BOTH HAVE
BREAKFAST Orange juice. Marinalade. Bread and buiter.
FAT ONE HAS
No cereal.
Boiled CAR
Tea, milk and sugar.
MID-MORNING
Nothing
LUNCHEON Herring and sauce.
Sauté potatoe
Ice cream
TEA
Tea, milk and sugar,
of lemon.
DINNER
Liver and kidney with
rice.
A dish of vegetables or
anfad.
Fruit and cream,
Coffee,
Hot milk
drink at
bedtime.
Bread and butter.
No cakes or pastries.
get it
But she was starving, not dieling. practicni hint, and you'd better for She wasn't supplying even a third of the calories she used. She got that haggard look.
Then, because she lacked vita- mins and minerals to withstand in-
They
were soon at their jobs again, but unfortunately as fat and as thin as ever.
нот TIFFINS for the COLD
WEATHER
VERY
frequently,
neglects 10 make
one even
reasonable preparation for a mid- day meni.
of salads The summer luncheon and other suitable cold food is nl-
ways easily prepared, but suitable winter dishes require some thought beforehand. Full use can always be left-over sauces, gravies, and vege tables. The
of these preparation dishes does not necessarily meat preparations.
mean
Eggs, milk, grains, cheese, vege- tables and sauces are all suitable to use in combination.
Asparagus Au Gratin Ingredients; pint thick white sauce 3 tablespoons dry grated cheen, 1 tin asparagus tips, bread- crumbs and little butter.
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Method: Grease casserole or pledish, small. Pince the asparagus In it. Mix half of the cheese with the hot sauce; pour this over the asparagus. Mix the remainder of the cheese, with 1 tablespoon fine crumbs and sprinkle this over the top. Add a few pieces of butter and bake in a steady oven to brown slightly on top. This may also be prepared in individual scallop shells if preferred.
1
Itice and Tomatoes Ingredients: 2 or 3 ripe tomatoen, 1 cupful cooked rice, 1 cachalot, 1 teaspoon chopped parsley, salt and
dessertspoon butter, pepper, 1 tablespoon grated cheese,
Method: Scald and skin tomatoes and cut them into slices. Grease a small pledish will a little butter. Place the sliced tomato and cooked rice in inyers, with a little chopped parsley and chopped eschalot be tween the layers, having rice for the with lost layer. Sprinkle thickly the grated cheese; add a little butter, and cook in a fairly quick oven for about 20 minutes.
Tomato sauce may be substituted for tomatoes. Serve very hot.
Rice and Tomato Kedgeree Ingredients: 1 cupful cooked rice,
2 or 3 tomatoes, 2 eschalots or 1 tablespoon chopped
onion, 1 tea- dessert- spoon chopped parsley, spoon butter, 1 tablespoon grated cheese, sult and pepper to taste.
Method: Scald and skin tomatoes and cut them into slices. Melt but- ter in saucepan and fry the minced eschalot or onion for five minutes without browning. Add tomato and cook until tender. Sur into it the cooked rice and stir until thoroughly healed. Add the parsley and pile in an entroe dish. Sprinkle with the grated cheese and serve very hot.
Casserole of Eans Ingredients: pint white sauce or puce left from a fricassee, a hard-
dessertspoon boiled eggs, I tablespoon crumbs, 1 cheese, 1 teaspoon butter,
Method: Cut hard-boiled CRES Then it was, about the end of
elther into 4 sections or Info thick casserole disli must be done alleen. Grease influenza. Elizabeth, always under- February, that Murgaret decided
Arrange the sections or by calor (glass). nourished, caught it from her. All something scientiae work was brought to a standstill. I about it. Examination
up. Then them the white sauce, sprinkle with blush when I remember that per- meter showed that she took in more slice of egg in the dish. Pour over and cheese. Add a little haps the teasing of my family help curlearned that it is safe and ensy ed to make this tragedy.
to shed a pound a week of unwant- bulter to the top and bake in a hot oven for about 15 minutes or unti ed fat by eating 500 less calories a
slightly brown on top. Serve hot. day
all rich foods because they are bad fection, she went down badly with Elizabeth didn't do anything for one anyway." Arst. Margaret did, though. said sweepingly, "I shall cut out potatoes, milk, and bread because They are starchy and fattening, and
She began to cal minute vegetarian meals. She did lose weight. About five pounds in the very first week.
WHEN YOUR CHILD REBELS at taking a dis- agrosable testing laxative, don't force her to take it! Medical opinion agrees that "forcing "iz bad for her sen. sitive system, both physi- cally and mentally,Children take Cartoria willingly... they like its mild, pleasant taste. It's gentle in action,
100,
THE CHILDREN'S LAXATIVE
CASTORIA
COUNT THE "TELEGRAPHS" EVERYWHERE
Building them up Again
HOWEVER, Rood
than she used calories
It works
doctor either Way
soon had them on their
feet, and concentrated on building them up to health. At first they had
NLIZABETH took up, the EL
iden, too, because it gets
no appetite. Now there's a lot of the other way just as well; you can talk about appetite being a guide to gain a pound a week by eating ealing.
Some faddists say you should only
calories a day more,
500
1
crumbs
Vegetable-Pie
a
Ingredienis: pint of white souce, I good cupful of cooked vegetables, Ruch as a mixture of peas, caull- flower, large diced pleens of potato, sliced carrot, or any vegetable used; a little, pastry ог brend-crumbs; grated cheese.
Method: Mix the vegetables in the sauce, place In
grensed glass piedish. Cut the pastry Into stripe The chart gives a day in their and twist them. Arrange in a lat- Skinny tice pattern on top of the dish, and cat when you are hungry, and then perlod of transition from
to the bake in a quick oven, until the pas- what and as much as you like. Tygy and Plumn PeERV Margaret has normally an appetite Shopely Sisters. You will see that try is crisp. Serve hot as a luncheon for cream buns almost amounting the daily round was not much alter, dish. Instead of using the pastry, to greed, but after her starvation ed. diet she couldn't even fancy a cresin
they are borrowing each Now bun, she stopped wanting food at all.
other's Jumpers there is no need to
strict. Margaret en Appelite had to be tempted by be quite vitamin B, taken both in a concen- favs the occasional cream bun, and irate and natural form. They Elizabeth does not always have a were advised to have as much egg mid-morning drink, though it is rc- yolk, liver, hearts, kidneys, whole cognised that she needs more cal- meal cereals, beans, peas, and nuts ories than Margaret. as possible.
Back to a meat Diet
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They are weighed every week, and remember to deduct something from the average given as correct for their heights and years.
These averages allow for an in- СТСОБС of 20 pounds between the
So Margaret gave up, wise ages of 20 and 30, because they ne
torianism. She was wise, gard middle-aged read as normaal
I am told cannibalism to the best instead of iniquitous, health-giving diet, and missionary,
of whatever seet, the finest food of all. But this, I'm afraid, is an un-'
SALESMAN SAM
Rose Hodgson,
the pie may be covered with a mix- ture of crumbs and cheese, with a little salt and cayenne mixed. Add
a little butter to the top and bake in n hot oven until a pale fawn on top.
Vegetable Kedacrec
Ingredients: 1 breakfast cup cook- ed rice, I oz. bulter, 1 onlan, 2 tonta- toes, 1 cupful of any cooked cold vegetable, 1 teaspoon chopped pars- ley,
Method: Seuld, skin, and slice the tomatoes. Mince onion, melt butter and try in saucepan. Add onion three minutes without browning. Add tomatoes and fry until soft. Stir in rice and vegetables and beat with fork until quite occasionally hot. Flavour to taste. Ple in a deep covered entree dinh and
with sprinkle
chopped poreley,
Serve hot.
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