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Practical recipes and household wisdom from 1906 — when the icebox was high technology and dinner had nine courses.

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Heed the Stomach

" What is one man's meat is another man's poison," is an old saying, and a true one. If every person would study his own individual powers, and learn to respect his stomach, to remember that he has no more right to overload it with improper food than he has to drink to intoxication, he would save himself many an unnecessary ache and ailment. Chronic dyspepsia never came of regular occupation, abundant exercise, early hours, and generous, but not imprudent diet. If you wake in the morning with a headache and lassitude, you have probably not taken the advice of the " self-monitor," which has its home in the stomach.

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