Or if they eat improper food (hot breads and much fat and sweets), the same result follows.

Digestion, or rather assimilation, is impossible; and pasty face and lusterless eyes become the rule.

A greedy woman is the exception; and yet all schoolgirls know the temptation to over-eating produced by a box of goodies from home, or the stronger temptation, after a school-term has ended, to ravage all cake-boxes and preserve-jars.

Then comes the pill or powder, and the habit of going to them for a relief which if no excess had been committed, would have been unnecessary.

Patent medicines are the natural sequence of unwholesome food, and both are outrages on common-sense.
We will take it for granted, then, that our baby has come to boyhood and youth in blissful ignorance of their names or natures.