Autumn leaves . n crumble intoruins if deprived of this its principal support, justas a house would tumble over if the kitchen weretaken away. Your third, fourth, and fifth storiesare excellent in their way; but the first floor isthe main stay, after all is said and done. If the vocation is thus useful and indeed neces-sary, it ought to be practised with judgment, dis-cretion, and an eye to health. More lives are lostthrough bad cookery than by the cholera. Whenthey are not actually sacrificed outright by igno-rance, they are shortened and rendered uncomfort-able while they last. A good cook a


Autumn leaves . n crumble intoruins if deprived of this its principal support, justas a house would tumble over if the kitchen weretaken away. Your third, fourth, and fifth storiesare excellent in their way; but the first floor isthe main stay, after all is said and done. If the vocation is thus useful and indeed neces-sary, it ought to be practised with judgment, dis-cretion, and an eye to health. More lives are lostthrough bad cookery than by the cholera. Whenthey are not actually sacrificed outright by igno-rance, they are shortened and rendered uncomfort-able while they last. A good cook and the doctorcannot flourish together in the same house ; onewill certainly expel the other. If you want to en- 132 AUTUMN LEAVES. joy good health, you need not throw physic to thedogs; but give them all badly cooked provisions:the physic will follow of course. With an accom-plished wife and cook, united in one, a man will liveout all his days, and sleep soundly o nights. Hehas found the genuine and only


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