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you prefer it , a cup of good chocolate . Breakfast at eleven . Fresh eggs , boiled or poached , petits pates , cutlets , or anything else ; but eggs are essential . A cup of coffee will not hurt . After breakfast , take a little exercise . Go shopping , or call on a friend , sit and chat , and walk home again . At dinner , eat as

much soup , meat and fish as you like , but do not omit to eat the rice with the fowl , maccaroni , sweet pastry , creams , & c . At dessert , Savoy biscuits , hulas , and other farinaceous preparations Avhich contain eggs and sugar . This diet may seem limited , but it is capable of great variation , and comprises the Avhole

auimal kingdom . Drink beer by preference , otherwise Bordeaux , or wine from the South of Erance . Avoid acids , except salad , which gladdens the heart . Eat sugar with your fruit , if it admits of it . " A physiciau Avould , we think , strike out the Bordeaux and the pastry—at least as both are usually

presented at middle-class tables—hut for the rest the advice , though over-elaborate , is sound . Its defect is that it does not explain the principle on which the experiment ought to be conducted , and demands of the patient a great deal too much appetite . There is no reason for eating so much meat , and indeed some

for avoiding it , for the whole process depends upon introducing into the system oil , sugar , and starch , none of Avhich are the components of lean meat . Two of these substances are contained in milk and cream in the greatest profusion , ami the third exists most liberally in real arrowrootor the meal called in India

, dal , and in London ravalenta Arahica . A diet of milk thickened with meal of any kind , arrowroot or wheat starch preferentially—oatmeal will not do , for a reason peculiar to itself—is the true penacea for leanness . It is on this that African beauties are fattened to their

enormous proportions , aud through this that the wealthier classes of India obtain that coating of muscleless , effemativo fat which they prize as a mark of grade , the head of the house being often hidden to " sit and get fat for the honour of the family , " They add butterbut there is nothing in butter which there

, is not in milk , and it is very much nastier to eat in any quantity . Milk and meal Avill fatten anybody who can be fattened at all , but of course they must be swallowed iu considerable quantities , quantities very different from those usual in Great Britain .

Owing to a variety of circumstances , such as the growth of cities , the taste of tea , and the general disbelief in fluids as food , milk , always the most nourishing of diets , is in this country very little consumed , particularly in its best form , that of thick cream . There is no habit of drinking it by itself , and iu the

cities it is excessively dear . Cream iu London costs almost as much as champagne , and even milk , Avhen consumed at the rate of five or six tumblers a day , will make a perceptible difference in the Aveekly bills . In most families it is taken only in tea , coffee , and puddings ; and cream , except for those purposes , is

regarded as an extravagant luxury . The poor out of Ireland , as Mr . Simon complains , seldom taste either , and it may be in fact asserted that milk is not to any extent au article of national diet . Its use as a substantive food , as , for example , it is used iu India , Thibet , and "West Africa is entirely unknown . Very few people drink it by itself or for itself , and a great many fancy they do not like it , though it is easy to flavour it to almost any extent , and the crave for it

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grows with habit , almost like the desire for drink . It is of all things the great fattener , and it Avould seem probable , from the African evidence , that it is one of the very few articles of diet the effect of Avhich is not perceptibly diminished by the dislike of the drinker . So long as it cau be kept down at all it Avill fattenand in the African States it is often

, administered by force through a horn , just as a horse is drenched . The rest of the diet matters little , except that acids must be avoided , that bread should be the staple , aud that sweet things are beneficialfor milk in large quantities is sufficient Avith this one other rule .

Never begin to employ yourself particularly with mental work the moment you have done eating , a rule strictly fixed by nature , and violated in the most injurious way in half the girls' school iu Great Britain . Digestion cannot go on properly if the brain and the stomach want the aid of the heart at the same

moment , and the girl Avho sits down to an exercise the moment her dinner is done is simply laying up for herself a rich store of dyspepsia . With plenty of milk and arrowroot , or any other starchy meal , tolerable air , and nine hours' sleep at night , the girl who remains scraggy may fairly be suspected of a bad constitution or an unquiet mind . —Spectator .

Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

niMOETALITY OE THE SOUL AND J-BEEMASONEY . In answer to the letter of " Delta , " I say that in Freemasonry the immortality of the soul is a necessary belief . The mission of Freemasonry is the wide inculcation of the practice of moral duty . Moral duty has its foundation in man's reason . NOAV , this reason tells us that it is by the performance of our moral duty that happiness is attained . But it is notorious that in this world such is often not the case . It

is notorious that m this world those who best perform their moral duty , often do not attain happiness ; and there must , therefore , he another Avorld in which they do attain it . The soul , then , is immortal . — - GuAELES PuETOIT COOPEE .

ITALIAN" AND DSGLISH EEEEMASONBY . We reply to the four queries of " J . W . K . " as under , but find it necessary to render the first query thus : — 1 . Under Avhat rite is the Italian Lodge constituted , having a fourth degree ? In the Grand Orient

of France it is the first degree of the Rose Croix ; in the Ancient and Accepted Rite , it is the Secret Master ; but this is not in practice . A certified M . M . under any Constitution is always welcomed . 2 . We have but two Constitutions in Englandthe United Grand Lod and the Ancient and

ge , Accepted Rite . Bro . HOAV ' S " Freemasons'Manual " affords the best explanation of both . 3 . A foreign brother is alloAved to Avear the clothing and insignia of his own lodge . If he is a member of an English lodge , he must , of course , adopt its clothingand must conform to the "Book of

Con-, stitutions . " 4 . The three symbolic degrees are universal . All beyond is only applicable to the particular rite . "We understand that , at present , Masonry in Italy