pared in the same manner. Beets, boiled and chopped with potatoes, and browned, are good; but these should never be mashed, and a potatoe is not as well for the stomach, mashed, as when it is eaten whole, and masticated more with the teeth.

Cabbage should be boiled very tender-the salt first thrown into the water. Cabbage is of a more heavy nature than any other vegetable eaten, and, when cooked with flesh, and incorporated with fat, or butter, it is fit for the digester of all things -the stomach of the swine; but well boiled in simple salt and water, it is not objectionable.

Onions, well boiled, are a healthy vegetable; but they need nothing but salt flung into the water, to season them; they are good sliced, boiled a few minutes, then the same quantity, or less, of sour apples sliced and boiled with them.

The Cauliflower is a simple, healthy, vegetable, boiled in water. Every dietetic, who follows nature, knows, that every vegetable suited for the palate and stomach, contains each in itself its own flavour or spice, (as you may choose to call it,) and no foreign condiment can improve it, if the article itself be good; and though different kinds of vegetables may be cooked together in the same vessel to good advantage, yet when any foreign condiment is added, the pure simple zest which nature has provided, is greatly blunted, if not entirely lost. Heating spices and peppers, often destroy that natural relish contained in an article, and besides paralyzing the palate, destroy all that is wholesome in the thing itself. Melted fats and butter are the extremes of a vitiated appetite, and have not one redeeming quality in them; and God required in the law, that the fat of the sacrifices should be burnt, and that is the wisest disposal that can be made of grease of any kind, unless it be used in rubbing rusty machinery. Every housekeeper knows, that it

is the thing she most dreads upon her carpet, her table-linen, and her dress, and yet she prepares it for the palate and stomach, which is the most improper deposit that could possibly be provided for it. Dr. Beaumont said, that grease of any kind remained in the stomach of his patient long after the solid food had been digested and removed-the stomach labouring in vain to dispose of it, as the gastric juice had little or no power over it, and nothing but bile could remove this adhesive filth,—that it could not be made into chyle, which is the nutritious part of our food; and whatever portion made its way into the system, was wholly to its detriment, affecting the skin-often producing a greasy appearance upon the surface, and is frequently the cause of disease in the intestines. When cream has gone through the process of churning, the buttermilk contains the nutritious part-and the butter, which may properly be termed grease, retains little or none of it, as it cannot be made into chyle by the gastric juice. One quart of buttermilk has the nutriment of three pints of good milk, say some who have analyzed it.

Keep off grease of all kinds from vegetables, both in cooking and when brought upon the table; good milk and cream is much better to a pure taste, and safer to the stomach; besides, they contain more nutriment, and are not injurious to the blood; but milk cannot be good unless the cows be fed upon the best grass. The slops from a kitchen or distillery are not fit to make healthy milk for the stomach.

SPICES AND PEPPERS.

And what shall be said here? Must all that makes our food palatable and digestible be swept from our tables? Yes; all should be swept at once that can retard for a moment the most healthy action of the body.

Peppers and spices have three serious objections. 1st, They deaden the healthy taste of the palate, leaving it unfit to judge with nice discrimination simple nature's flavour. 2d, Whatever food is seasoned with them becomes more indigestible, as no kind of peppers or spices are dissolved by the gastric juice: they retard the digestion of the food with which they are mixed. Dr. Beaumont observed that when he put a piece of roast beef or steak into the stomach of his patient, with nothing but simple salt, and a piece with pepper or mustard, well seasoned with them, the piece containing these peppers would remain in the stomach an hour and a-half longer than the piece seasoned with salt only. 3d, They destroy the vitality of the blood so much, that persons in the habit of using them complain much of coldness, cold stomachs, cold hands and feet, and tell you that these condiments warm the blood and promote digestion. Here the same deception comes in again, as in the cases of ardent spirits, flesh eating, and tea and coffee. While the artificial stimulus is going on the stomach is excited, feels warm, and this is the lullaby to the tantalized body; but so soon as the force is spent, then the clamour is set up, and continues louder at each application, till the whole host of pickles, peppers, spices, and mustards, can scarcely satisfy the demand.

Are these people the comfortable ones? Are they the people that never dread hunger or cold? Can they face the storms and tempests like those who satisfy nature with her own simple demands? Are they not often calling for bleeding, blisters, and cathartics, and something "to stir the blood?"

We may always know when a relief is found if the same difficulty return, that an infringement of the same law has occurred, or the first cause was never removed.

FRUIT.

Here we enter into a large field. The varieties of fruit spread over the earth speak in language that cannot be misunderstood, that a beneficent Being had a watchful care for all his creatures, to provide for their happiness as well as their nourishment.

The apple, which is the most plentiful, is eatable, if carefully preserved, the whole year round, and always may be, till the season when the berry of all kinds is inviting with its freshness and flavour. These fruits seem provided only as a pleasing change in the hottest season-as a kind of set-off, and to give the appetite a pleasant relief from that sameness and bluntness which it is prone to acquire by a continuation in the same

course.

They seem to have a peculiar duty to perform, like a periodical visitor at the head of some government, who pays his annual tour to see if all be well, and adjust affairs for the future well-being of the community. When the heat of summer has diminished they retire, and leave the evening fireside to be enjoyed with the more sedate and substantial friend, the apple.

Great care should be taken how and when these fruits are used. We hear much about the injury done by eating green fruit. Children are the greatest sufferers, and many are not only sickened but are killed by it. All this may be avoided, and the fruit daily taken. Fruit should be eaten with food, and seldom without it. To eat fruit after dinner often does much injury; because the partaker has generally taken a full