The magazine of American history with notes and queries . allof the elements of the human body, but not in adigestible form. The chapter on this topic isinstructive, and if not altogether an essay oncooking, it furnishes valuable hints to every headof a home and family. Of the vegetables incommon use, peas and beans are said to containmore nutriment in proportion to their weightthan any other ; and sweet potatoes are muchmere nutritious than Irish potatoes. Pound forpound, the former contain nearly twice as muchavailable nutriment as the latter. The chapterentitled The Clothing We Wear is equa
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . allof the elements of the human body, but not in adigestible form. The chapter on this topic isinstructive, and if not altogether an essay oncooking, it furnishes valuable hints to every headof a home and family. Of the vegetables incommon use, peas and beans are said to containmore nutriment in proportion to their weightthan any other ; and sweet potatoes are muchmere nutritious than Irish potatoes. Pound forpound, the former contain nearly twice as muchavailable nutriment as the latter. The chapterentitled The Clothing We Wear is equallyworthy of close attention; but by far the bestsermon in this little book of sermons is what weread about home habits. Cheerfulness shouldbe cultivated, as a constant habit and by allinnocent means—by amusements, by social in-tercourse, by reading pleasant books—and main-tained as one essential condition to bodily should look most upon the bright, not uponthe dark side, of things. The book is full ofsound advice and valuable
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