Though milk has been acknowledged to be the perfect food for children, it has been the practice in the past to discontinue this food, except in small quantity, after the child had reached two or three years of age. Now, much older school children take itn quantity with what good results are already well There is no age of man or woman when a good amount of milk im the diet will not benefit, Many believe that the young maiden can attain a fine complexion and a smooth skin by large quantities of milk, while the old take to it again, and it seems to be the one food which agrees with all ages and types. Some adult tastes prefer it flavoured in some way and essences, meat extracts, and in not unknown cases, spirits added, have been known to make it more palatable. One can only say, take it how you like, but take milk. wi nen "Eggs Is Eggs"
There can be no comparison between the quality of food procurable in Shanghai now und that of some twenty years ago. Quality has improved tremendously and though this has always been a land of plenty, so far as foreign tastes have been concerned, it was not always a land of quality. Early arrivals here complained about the bread, the milk, and eggs—those simple every-day requisites which made such a difference to table cheer.
Now all that is altered, and the three commodities named are now equal in quality to those available in western lands. Years ago eggs might have been eggs in theory, but on the breakfast table they fight have been mere shells with garlic injected.
We knew an old traveller in India who always said that when his business took him in small up-country places he invariably ordered a meal of eggs, "because," he added "the natives, I knew, could not get their feet in those." He had the old western prejudice that natives of any country but his own used their feet in food preparation.
The system now employed in Shanghai by egg salesmen is one of sorting, of collections from reliable sources, and of improved stock as a source. Whereas in the old days our hens picked where they could, with sad resuits in flavour to their eggs, they are now properly fed, and breeds are improved with consequent improvements to our breakfast table. It is possible now to purchase the large, fresh eggs like those to which we are accustomed in western countries. With the comforts of the west therefore combined with those of the east, we are perhaps in danger of becoming a pampered people.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.