A HYGIENIC HOME.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XX, Issue XIV, 2 April 1898, Page 432

A HYGIENIC HOME.

My wife and 1 are trying hard to live on healthful diet; We read the food chart by the yard, And run our kitchen by it; We've banished from our bills of fare All that such guides condemn ; True hygiene is all our care, As planned and taught by them. For breakfast, coffee is tabooed. Hot cakes and eggs forbidden, And milk, since it is oft imbued With germs profuse, though hidden ; Bread is unwholesome, so is steak ; Submissive to our lot, Oatmeal and graham gems we take ; And drink boiled water hot. For dinner, soup will never do, And oysters typhoid nourish ; Salads, entrees, and ices, too. Are mere dyspeptic flourish ; Potatoes (by the last advice) Are poisonous, we’re told ; We eat rare meat, chopped fine, with rice, And drink boiled water cold. For supper—some professors teach ’Tis best to go without it, But since discretion’s left to each, We take our choice alsmt it; On chicken, waffles, tea and cake, We are forbid to feed ; But gluten wafers, cocoa (weak), And prunes, are all we need. It grieves us much our friends to view So reckless in their diet ; Our wholesome menu we pursue And beg of them to try it; But appetites ungodly sway Their nature so enthralls, We cannot get a guest to stay Within our healthful walls.