Eat clabber, buttermilk or sweet milk smoothed down with lemon juice. Vegetables in small quantities. Fruit fol- lowed with browned flour bread, or cookies made of cracker- dust or matzos. Let the consumptive, the catarrhal, hay fever and bron- chial sufferer bury his body in the hot sand for an hour with a green umbrella to shade his head, and sponge his body thereafter with boiled vinegar. Keep up daily for ten days and every other day thereafter until the month is up. Rheumatics and consumptives should not let August pass without giving the white grape cure a test. With soft boiled eggs and whole wheat wafers, gems and bread on the side a cure may be accomfJished in three weeks. Eat grapes on an empty stomach when hungry, and last thing at night. In case you grow tired of grapes after a few days, stop eating anything for a day or two. Take a pinch of powdered tgg, sea or crab shells three to five times a day.^ The second day take a tablespoonful of fresh pine- apple juice on an empty stomach, and if a desire for grapes doeg not return, continue with shells until hunger becomes great enough to eat grapes. Do not swallow skins or seeds. 215 AUTUMN TIME. SEPTEMBER. Is your liver swollen and does the uric acid trouble your tissues by day and by night in the form of rheumatism, gout, neuralgia? If so, then confine yourself to the use of white grapes while the season lasts. Eat them in the early morning, eat them when thirsty or hungry until late at night, finishing your grape meal with a little honey bread, ginger or molasses cakes. Seeds and skins should not be eaten. For skin troubles, eczema or salt rheum you will find the blue grapes of inestimable value, always finishing your meal with milk toast. Honey is for him this month who suffers from kidney and bladder troubles. Have all the honey and bread you can eat at a meal. In fact, make a meal of it. After a meal, take a tablespoonful of clear lemon juice. A selection of two or three different acid fruits in addi- tion to grapes will cure liver troubles and costiveness. Use apricots, peaches, pears, plums, figs and apples. Indigestion, dyspepsia and stomach troubles in general will find cure in the use of white grapes upon an empty stomach, three times a day. Also use cream freely with other fruits. Eat very little bread, and that dipped into boiled olive oil, well sprinkled with cayenne pepper. Unprepared cucumbers are excellent in weak kidneys. The peelings thrown into the bath will prove invigorating, while the juice of cucumber will clear the skin and pre- serve its beauty if slices of raw potatoes are rubbed over the skin. Persimmons, pomegranates, figs and oranges are for catarrhal people and consumptives. 216 Bananas and rice, either raw or baked, make a splendid food at this season. Fruits slowly masticated are by far better laxatives than the best medication. Vegetables of a higher order are now in season, but re- member that pumpkins, squashes, melons, cucumbers and all the different species of gourds call for stimulants, tea or black coffee ; that is, where gourds are used exclusively. In case of griping or pain, use strong ginger tea made from ginger fruit or root, or take one-half teaspoonful of mustard seeds. If you have to have baked apples with cream, forget not to spice them with cinnamon and nutmeg sparingly.

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Eat clabber, buttermilk or sweet milk smoothed down with lemon juice. Vegetables in small quantities. Fruit followed with browned flour bread, or cookies made of crackerdust or matzos. Let the consumptive, the catarrhal, hay fever and bronchial sufferer bury his body in the hot sand for an hour with a green umbrella to shade his head, and sponge his body thereafter with boiled vinegar. Keep up daily for ten days and every other day thereafter until the month is up. Rheumatics and consumptives should not let August pass without giving the white grape cure a test. With soft boiled eggs and whole wheat wafers, gems and bread on the side a cure may be accomplished in three weeks. Eat grapes on an empty stomach when hungry, and last thing at night. In case you grow tired of grapes after a few days, stop eating anything for a day or two. Take a pinch of powdered tgg, sea or crab shells three to five times a day.^ The second day take a tablespoonful of fresh pineapple juice on an empty stomach, and if a desire for grapes does not return, continue with shells until hunger becomes great enough to eat grapes. Do not swallow skins or seeds. AUTUMN TIME. SEPTEMBER. Is your liver swollen and does the uric acid trouble your tissues by day and by night in the form of rheumatism, gout, neuralgia? If so, then confine yourself to the use of white grapes while the season lasts. Eat them in the early morning, eat them when thirsty or hungry until late at night, finishing your grape meal with a little honey bread, ginger or molasses cakes. Seeds and skins should not be eaten. For skin troubles, eczema or salt rheum you will find the blue grapes of inestimable value, always finishing your meal with milk toast. Honey is for him this month who suffers from kidney and bladder troubles. Have all the honey and bread you can eat at a meal. In fact, make a meal of it. After a meal, take a tablespoonful of clear lemon juice. A selection of two or three different acid fruits in addition to grapes will cure liver troubles and costiveness. Use apricots, peaches, pears, plums, figs and apples. Indigestion, dyspepsia and stomach troubles in general will find cure in the use of white grapes upon an empty stomach, three times a day. Also use cream freely with other fruits. Eat very little bread, and that dipped into boiled olive oil, well sprinkled with cayenne pepper. Unprepared cucumbers are excellent in weak kidneys. The peelings thrown into the bath will prove invigorating, while the juice of cucumber will clear the skin and preserve its beauty if slices of raw potatoes are rubbed over the skin. Persimmons, pomegranates, figs and oranges are for catarrhal people and consumptives. Bananas and rice, either raw or baked, make a splendid food at this season. Fruits slowly masticated are by far better laxatives than the best medication. Vegetables of a higher order are now in season, but remember that pumpkins, squashes, melons, cucumbers and all the different species of gourds call for stimulants, tea or black coffee ; that is, where gourds are used exclusively. In case of griping or pain, use strong ginger tea made from ginger fruit or root, or take one-half teaspoonful of mustard seeds. If you have to have baked apples with cream, forget not to spice them with cinnamon and nutmeg sparingly.

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