During the summer months starchy and fatty foods should be eliminated from the bills-of-fare. Even ice cream contains too much fat to be used in large quantities. Water-ices, frozen fruit juices, are much more refreshing and wholesome if ice dishes can be classed among wholesome foods.

Eat less meat; substitute succulent vegetables, and fresh, ripe, uncooked fruits. Nitrogenous vegetables do not produce as much heat as meats. Fresh fruits are best raw; cooking in sugar makes them less natural, less digestible and less wholesome. As a class Americans use too few fruits; they are not expensive as compared to meats, and are very wholesome.

The love for fruit is almost universal among children, and still it is given to them sparingly. Make it a portion of every meal, and the bulk and base of all school luncheons.

Fruits, like other foods, may be divided into several classes : succulent, sub-acid, and those containing fruit sugars, as raisins, dates and figs, and bananas, containing starch. In the succulent group we have apples, pears, quinces, oranges, limes, shaddocks, plums, peaches, apricots, cherries, olives, grapes, gooseberries, currants, cranberries, barberries, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, mulberries, with the melons-as watermelons and cantaloups-and pineapples. The analyses of these fruits show them to be particularly rich in mineral salts, and while their nutritive value is low they contain a large amount of pure water, holding in solution fruit sugar and important vegetable acids. Use them in abundance during hot weather.