BREAKFAST

    Fresh Fruits
    Rolled Oats and Cream
    Baked Sweet Apples
    Macaroni with Cream Sauce
    Whole-Wheat Puffs
    Stewed Peaches
    Caramel Coffee or Hot Milk

    DINNER

    Lentil Soup
    Baked Potato with Cream Sauce
    Escalloped Tomato
    Green Corn Pulp
    Browned Rice and Cream
    Fruit Bread
    Lemon Apple Sauce
    Prune Pie
    Caramel Coffee or Hot Milk

    BREAKFAST

    Fresh Fruits
    Blackberry Mush and Cream
    Cream Toast
    Graham Crusts
    Blueberries
    Caramel Coffee or Hot Milk

    DINNER

    Green Pea Soup
    Mashed Potato
    Macaroni with Tomato Sauce
    Pearl Barley and Cream
    Cream Rolls
    Blackberries
    Stewed Fruit Pudding
    Caramel Coffee or Hot Milk

    BREAKFAST

    Fresh Fruits
    Rolled Wheat and Cream
    Tomato Toast
    Corn Bread
    Graham Gems
    Stewed Prunes
    Caramel Coffee or Hot Milk

    DINNER

    Vegetable Oyster Soup
    Baked Sweet Potato
    Mashed Peas
    Steamed Rice with Fig Sauce
    Graham Bread
    Stewed Dried Fruit
    Apples
    Caramel Coffee or Hot Milk

In the selection of a dietary for elderly persons, much must depend upon their physical condition, the daily amount of exercise to which they are accustomed, their habits in earlier life, and a variety of other circumstances.

The quantity as well as quality of food for the aged should receive consideration.  Diminished bodily activity and the fact that growth has ceased, render a smaller amount of food necessary to supply needs; and a decrease in the amount taken, in proportion to the age and the activity of the subject, must be made or health will suffer.  The system will become clogged, the blood filled with imperfectly elaborated material, and gout, rheumatism, apoplexy, or other diseased conditions will be the inevitable result.  The digestion of heavy meals is a tax upon vital powers at any time of life, but particularly so as age advances; and for him who has passed his first half-century, over-feeding is fraught with great danger.  Cornaro, an Italian of noble family, contemporary with Titian in the sixteenth century, after reaching his eighty-third year wrote several essays upon diet and regimen for the aged, in one of which he says:  “There are old lovers of feeding who say that it is necessary that they should eat and drink a great deal to keep up their natural heat, which is constantly diminishing as they advance in years; and that it is therefore their duty to eat heartily and of such things as please their palate, be they hot, cold, or temperate, and that if they were to lead a sober life, it would be a short one.  To this I answer; Our kind Mother Nature, in order that old men may live to still greater age, has contrived matters so that they may be able to subsist on little, as I do; for large quantities of food cannot be digested by old and feeble stomachs.”