The following list will give an idea of the arrangement of the meals:

Breakfast

Every Day.

Milk.

Porridge and cream.

Bread and butter.

One Dish Only Each Day

Fresh fish.

Eggs, lightly boiled.

Eggs, poached.

Eggs, scrambled. Eggs, plain omelet. Bacon.

Sound fruits may be allowed before and after the meal, according to taste, as oranges, grapes without pulp (seeds not to be swallowed), peaches, thoroughly ripe pears, cantaloupes, and sometimes strawberries.

Dinner

Every Day.

Clear soup.

Meat, roasted or broiled, and cut into small pieces.

Bread and butter.

Two Dishes Each Day.

Potatoes, baked. Potatoes, mashed. Hominy. Macaroni, plain. Spinach.

Stewed celery. Cauliflower. Peas.

String-beans, young. Nearly all green vegetables.

Junket, rice-and-milk or other light pudding, and occasionally ice cream, may be allowed for dessert.

Supper

Every Day.

Milk.

Milk toast, or bread and butter.

Stewed fruit, baked apple.

Water - and this must be really pure - is to be taken freely between meals and should be the only drink; tea, coffee, wine or beer being entirely forbidden.

Fried food, highly seasoned or made-up dishes, are to be excluded, and no condiment but salt is to be used.

Eating, however little, between meals must be absoutlely avoided. Keep a young child from knowing the taste of cakes or bonbons, or, having learned it, let him feel that they are as unattainable as the thousand other things beyond his reach, and he soon ceases to ask for them. Even a piece of bread between meals should be forbidden. His appetite then remains natural, and he will eat proper food at his regular meal hours.

As to the quantity, a healthy child may be permitted to satisfy his appetite at each meal, under the one condition that he eats slowly and masticates thoroughly.

In case of illness, the diet must be reduced in quantity and quality, according to the rules that are applicable to adults.