SOME one has said that life to the average man is but a series of incidents between meals. It is certainly often scarcely more than this to the average woman who serves her household as caterer and cook; while the question of what to provide for these same meals is frequently an ever-present and perplexing one. ' If meal-getting were only an occasional occurrence," said a housekeeper the other day, "the question would be more easily solved, but it is the never-ceasing round of every-day dishes that must be provided, - seasonable, palatable, and yet within the bounds of economy, - that taxes one's ingenuity and patience until she is tempted to wish life could be as well sustained without eating." Doubtless there are many housekeepers in whose hearts these sentiments find a responsive echo; but since no provision has been made whereby we may live without eating, it may perhaps be well to investigate some of the ways and means by which meal-getting may be made less difficult and laborious.

We shall need to begin, however, with these same every-day dishes, since it is these that furnish the material from which are manufactured the brains with which to solve life's intricate problems, and the strength and sinews with which to bear its burdens and carry forward the world's work. They are, in fact, the foundation upon which health, strength, and much of life's success and happiness are built, and that they should be of a character to produce the very best building material is a matter of the utmost importance.