"The physician of the future will be a chef," says Mrs. jenness Miller. And the suggestion contains much of truth when it is remembered that proper food, properly cooked, is one of the greatest_ factors in the health, beauty and wit of mankind, and that nature constantly offers us more and better remedies in her yearly round of seasonable foods than can be found anywhere in the druggist's pharmacy.

Hygienic cookery implies a knowledge of the waste and repair of the human system, and of the foods best calculated to sustain the individual for the duties required of him.

It would be suicidal to feed the farmer in the field and the man at the desk upon the same food, since what would strengthen the one for Ms toil would be impossible for the other to assimilate.

The value of a fruit diet is incalculable. Digested in about eighty-five minutes, while animal food requires from four to five hours, there is nothing that so brightens the complexion and clears the brain as a diet of fresh, well-ripened fruits (not forgetting baths and exercise).

Apples are the finest spring medicines that can be found. They contain more phosphorus in a digestible form than any other vegetable product. The apple constantly used promotes the action of the liver, cures indigestion, promotes sound and healthy sleep, assists the kidneys, and prevents calculus growths, while it is a preventive of throat; troubles. It is said by good authority that a peeled apple eaten every night before retiring is a sure cure for dyspepsia. '

Oranges are a great aid to the digestion, and a remark, able sedative to the nerves. If they were properly appreciated there would be much less of the bilious complexions that are so common. Their acid is a tonic and improver for the blood. The orange must be perfectly ripe and the juice only used. Five or six oranges daily are not too many to feel their full benefit.

Lemons are of marked benefit to a bilious temperament. They may be used instead of quinine for malaria. The juice of one lemon should be taken in a glass of water without sugar. Never take it clear, since the lemon acid is very strong and likely to corrode the lining of the stomach;

Pineapples have much the same effect. The juice will cure dyspepsia. It is called a vegetable pepsin, strengthening the digestive powers, driving away malaria, and whitening the skin. Pineapple juice used in case of diphtheria has never been known to fail in clearing the throat and affording a cure. Teaspoonful doses should be given every fifteen minutes in bad cases. When pineapples are cheap it is well to store up the juice for time of need.

Grape Fruit

Grape Fruit is another excellent spring tonic.

Grapes are raw wine. They cover a wide field in Nature's economy. The pulp is nourishing, the juice is laxative. They clear the voice and strengthen the vocal tissues.

Rhubarb, made 'up in the old-fashioned sauce, is a good spring tonic and blood purifier.

Canned Fruits, dried fruits, figs, dates, prunes, and even dried-apple sauce, are not to be despised as parts of a fruit diet.

Vegetables take the next place of honor.

Celery is a sovereign cure for nervousness, and is also a remarkable remedy for rheumatism. Indeed, it is asserted that this disease is impossible if celery is cooked and freely eaten. It is asserted that an alkaline blood is the result of a free use of celery, and where this is the case rheumatism and gout cannot exist. Cook in a little water. When soft add a small amount of rich milk, and season with butter, pepper and salt. Serve raw also.

Onions are another vegetable whose virtues are too often neglected. They are very good blood purifiers and complexion improvers. They are laxative, anti-nervous, induce sleep - as does also lettuce. One small onion eaten every night before going to bed is a well-known physician's prescription for numerous affections of the head and for breaking up colds. In the case of children they are an active vermifuge, taken raw or cooked, and also a preventive of* contagious diseases such as scarlet fever and diphtheria. Their unpleasant odor can be overcome by eating a small sprig of parsley immediately after the meal.

Salads, plain, green salads, such as those of lettuce, celery, cabbage and cress, are also helpful. A French dressing is an admirable addition to such salads. Make this by simply taking two-thirds salad oil and one-third vinegar, seasoned with pepper and salt. Turn this over the greens, and toss lightly.. A Mayonnaise dressing is also good.

Salad Oil, or olive oil, thus used is particularly beneficial to the system, especially in the case of nervous women of sedentary habits, supplying them with the fatty matter their starved tissues demand. So any woman that can persuade herself to use this healing, nourishing vegetable oil with her daily meals will find herself greatly benefited. The dyspeptic should also learn to eat olives as a means of lubricating and repairing a weak stomach.

Butter is another oily substance that is a most valuable article of food, and may be looked upon as a preventive of tuberculosis. Thin bread and butter is prescribed by many physicians. It is very digestible taken in this manner, where the stomach would refuse it if offered otherwise.

Honey is an article that may be taken as both food and medicine. Let children eat all the honey they desire and throat troubles will be almost unknown.

Oatmeal is a heavy diet and not at all fitted to the nervous, sedentary man, woman or child. Cracked wheat, well cooked, is far better. The laboring man or woman, alone, can digest oatmeal properly.

Milk diet, except where especially prescribed by a physician, is another fallacy. The habit of taking milk on any and every occasion is responsible for much biliousness and sallowness of skin. Milk is difficult of digestion, and on that account should be taken in sips. By this means the curd which forms in the stomach, instead of forming in one solid, indigestible mass, is deposited in spongy bits, upon which the gastric fluids can readily act. Milk, heated to the scalding point, is more easily digested, and proves a restful, stimulating drink to the weary.

Buttermilk is a much more healthful drink. It aids digestion, exterminates the waste matter that clogs the system, quiets the nerves, and induces sleep.

Roasted Meats

Roasted Meats are more digestible than boiled, and broiled than fried. The white meats, chicken, lamb and mutton, are more easily assimilated than the red meats, and should be used by nervous, sedentary people, and in every way the diet should be as nearly adapted to the vocation as possible.

A too free indulgence in animal food is often responsible for many of the diseases that come with advanced age, such as heart disease, apoplexy, articular rheumatism, Bright's disease, gout, etc.