FOOD AND TEMPERAMENT

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 17, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 11.

FOOD AND TEMPERAMENT.

THE good housekeeper shows her wisdom by the well-being of the inmates of her home, physically first, then mentally and morally. She knows that home cannot be kept worthy and happy without effort. She studies the temperament of each member of the family, and furnishes him or her with the food needed. The sanguine and full-blooded require one kind, the nervous and wiry another. Good taste rules the serving of the viands, but the viands are first selected to build up muscle and nourish brain, not to pamper and enervate. Otherwise energy, capacity, and integrity are weakened, and the power to do good work has gone.

It is related by a gentleman who had an appointment to breakfast with the late A. T. Stewart, that the butler placed before them both an elaborate bill of fare. The visitor selected a list of rare dishes, and was quite abashed when Mr. Stewart said, "Bring my usual breakfast, oatmeal and boiled eggs." He then explained to his friend that he found simple food a necessity to him; otherwise he could not think clearly. That unobscured brain applied to nobler ends would have won higher results, but the principle remains the same.—Good Housekeeping.