MY WORK in the field of natural and curative feeding has convinced me that there is an uni­versal demand for a practical family book on the subject of natural feeding.

The primary object of this work, therefore, is first, to educate the housewife and mother in the selection and preparation of food that will give the highest de­gree of efficiency, at all seasons of the year, in the form of energy and health; second, to secure these results with the greatest economy and the least amount of labor.

When the housewife or mother seeks information designed to change, improve and rationalize the fam­ily table, she is apt to read into a maze of tables, terms and technical phrases, with which she is wholly un­familiar and, with the duties of the home pressing upon her, she has no time to study and learn.

This book is the most concrete form in which we can reply to the many thousand inquiries that have come to us from mothers and housewives from all over the land during the past few years in regard to naturaliz­ing and making more healthful the family bill of fare.