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my experiment, very cheaply. It offers the double economy of utiliz- 

 ing a nearly waste product and obtaining chicken-broth and roast fowl 

 simultaneously. 



One of the great advantages of stewing is that it affords a means 

 of obtaining a savory and very wholesome dish at a minimum of cost. 

 A small piece of meat may be stewed with a large quantity of vege- 

 tables, the juice of the meat savoring the whole. Besides this, it costs 

 far less fuel than roasting. 



The wife of the French or Swiss landed proprietor, i, e., the peasant, 

 cooks the family dinner with less than a tenth of the expenditure of 

 fuel used in England for the preparation of an inferior meal. A little 

 charcoal under her bain-marie does it all. The economy of time cor- 

 responds to the economy of fuel, for the mixture of viands required 

 for the stew once put into the pot is left to itself until dinner-time, or 

 at most an occasional stirring of fresh charcoal into the embers is all 

 that is demanded. — Knowledge. 



CATCHING COLD. 



By C. E. page, M. D. 

 " She caught her death o' cold, taking gruel out of a damp basin." — Old Story. 



THERE has always been more or less of mystery connected with the 

 disorder popularly called " a cold." A close observer, in study- 

 ing this question, will find : 



1. That, while persons of all ages, sexes, occupations, social posi- 

 tions, and in all conditions of general health — from the delicate infant 

 and the frail consumptive to the most robust man — have colds, say 

 to-day, from the slightest causes, often enough, indeed, when utterly 

 at a loss to account for the attack ; next month, or next week, perhaps, 

 the same individuals — the frail and delicate ones, even — may pass 

 through severe exposures to wet and cold, even to the point of being 

 chilled through and through, without producing a symptom of this 

 disorder. 



2. Every day throughout the year we see evidences of the disease ; 

 to the last individual in any community none escape altogether, a large 

 proportion are affected several times, and individuals there are who 

 rarely pass an entire month without some of the symptoms ; while 

 others, notably children and infants who are fed every hour or two, 

 are almost constant sufferers from nasal catarrh, difficult breathing 

 (" snuffles "), and general malaise, and are peculiarly subject to acute 

 attacks. 



3. Whenever it happens that an unusually large proportion of the 

 people are attacked at about the same time, the disease is popularly 



