ADVENT With the last week of November and up to Xmas we observe Advent-the season of great expectations. And altho we do not abstain from foods as we do during Lent we nevertheless select Wednesday and Friday as our fruit days, making our meals on fruits, scientifically selected. The day is started with an acidulous tropical fruit, followed by a domestic seed fruit. The second meal consists of highly sweetened seed fruit, followed by an acidulous stone fruit. At night we indulge in seed fruits entirely, and of a tart nature. A nut fruit, like an avocado, or a mango, may be added. A persimmon and a pomegranate should be ever on hand. Chilled pears and chilled grapes will prove of inestimable value. No breadstuffs are to be used during Advent. Rolled oats, rolled wheat, steamed malted wheat, barley, rice and agar-agar puddings are in order. We observe all these little hints because we desire to be in harmony with the spirit of the times and keep in step with the seasons. THE HALF WAS NEVER TOLD Not only "the half was never told," but "the half is never told" about diet. Now there still remains some things unsaid, or if said had escaped our notice. At this time of the year, with the cold northerner occasionally breathing his piercing breath upon our window pane, or nibbing a tender bud, if reaching the far South, we feel not only the necessity of an overcoat and a pair of leggings, the inner man, too, calls for something more healthy or stimulating. For this reason a cold salad and a cold drink do not pacify us, especially if the temperament is not only of the active type, but endowed with sensitive nerves. We either need a baked and stewed dish added to our salad or we need a hot drink, be it coffee, tea, cocoa or hot water with several pinches of cayenne pepper of the real drastic kind. A little judgment and attention to selection will assist materially in leading a happy perfect life. SATISFIED DISSATISFACTION That's it, now we have it. To be satisfied that we are dissatisfied with things as they appear and as we find them. To be satisfactorily satisfied savors of submission, nonresistance, negativeness. To be satisfied soon throws us into mental stupor and we lose interest in the daily walks of life. Eventually nothing appeals to us, rothing stimulates us. We are simply satisfied. We surrender. Not so when we are satisfied that we need to stir things for we are no longer satisfied with the lethargic state of a humdrum of the daily walks of life. We are dissatisfied with both ourselves and the world at large. Of the Saviour it is said that "he stirreth the people." Now that's the ticket; a ticket that will lead to something. We must be stirring early at morn, if we wish to accomplish something worth our while during the hours of the day. We must be so dissatisfied with ourselves that it acts like a tonic upon us and stirs us to do more even after the day's work is done. hands serenely and wait. Never fold your right for a little while and after all the crops are in, but even thereafter scheme and stir about and see what else can be done to Keep Things Moving. Be satisfactorily dissatisfied. TO BE REMINDED In this present turmoil of things, and where strenuous efforts are used to cope with conditions and environments, we are so apt to forget our most urgent need, and a reminder as to our duty is welcome. The average person needs to make memorandums of things, that the many little items, composing the daily walks of life, may not escape him. Owing to the attention paid usually to business hours it is quite possible that we forget some things. We are but a mechanical device, assembled together of innumerable component parts, which, altho most ingeniously controlled by infinite hosts of intelligences, energies, powers, forces, endowments, attributes, propensities, properties, chemical compounds, elements, where each and every particular phase conducts and controls its own particular radius, never theless there needs to be the One, aware of all such operations, to, from time to time at least, give some serious attention to the modus operandi. First of all we should make it our duty to take the Yima exercise, reciting three to more prayers in length equal to that of "Assurance," every three hours of the day. It will pay us for our attention to this modest demand made by nature. Whenever we experience a dull feeling in our forehead, or a nervousness in back of neck; when the eyelids droop heavily, or there is a throbbing of the temples; when we yawn and yawn repeatedly, or experience a weight along the waist line, and pit of the stomach; breathing becomes laborious, and we show an inclination of leaning towards back of chair or seek an object on which to support the side of our body; when the feet burn and hands feel as if they had done hard labor; when we become easily exhausted, or get that "gone feeling"; when we grow disgusted to a point of cussedness, or lose ourselves so far as to think life is not worth living; and all because we neither conquer our ailments, neither our failures— |