2 The time has come to build up the body after the long drawn battle of the summer months. During those months it has been but little use to consider the thises and thats of diet—vitamins or no vitamins, proteins and carbohydrates notwithstanding, in the summer one eats and drinks according to liking not to lights. Ice cream has been one person's staple, gin the other's. Both apparently served their hackers well in bringing them safely through the trial by gunfire. But as the days grow chilly the inside of a provision store is a pleasant lace of promise and anticipation. How good he hams and tengues and sausages appear,
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and egg plums, of raspberries and pears, and visualize a loganberry pie with cream.
Honey, marmalade and guava jelly call up pictures of buttered scones eaten in flickering firelight to the accompaniment of good strong Indian tea with a bite to it—something the teaspoon won't Sink in easily. Sweet bis-cults too, for days when news is good and yet there is no cake for tea.
The approach to the shelves where bottles stand in array is made with caution nowadays—although it costs. nothing justo look at them. And when thinking that so many dollars for so limited a measure is an awful thing to ask, pause to reflect and to value. Is there not something else upon' which we need not spend which will enable some of these magic elixirs to be ours? Surely, Remember the good old story which never palls of the man who was given $50 to buy the wherewithal for a good cany (dollars gold or dollars that were.dollars) and spending $1 on bread was chided for wasting so much. There is lots of truth in what some people think is a joke.
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