While a regulated system of diet fulfilling the demands of the "simple life," as already given, is more desirable than one in which breakfast calls for beefsteak, quail on toast, fried trout, bacon, liver, or baked beans, there is yet a better way; a way affording more perfect nutrition without danger of complication; a way by which woman is more fully emancipated from excessive labor; a way which naturally divides food substances suited to each meal that they may serve the highest purpose, and the most pleasing variety, with the least care.

The new plan for a long life system of diet is to serve a natural breakfast and luncheon and a scientifically cooked dinner at six o'clock.

When this way of eating becomes habitual in early life, it will enable one, providing other conditions are favorable, to accumulate enough vitality in the cells to maintain the vigor of the body during the critical stage - from sixty to eighty years - until the "race belief" in natural decline and the "old age" disease is overcome, permitting the mature life to continue indefinitely, or until a much longer term is fully established. If auto-intoxication from poisons generated in the digestive tract can be prevented, and the accumulation of sediment hardening the arteries is checked, the life force and cell construction of youth remain dominant.

Like all new things a change in diet must be introduced gradually and wisely. Life habits are hard to change; in fact, it may be some time before even the most progressive women will think it possible, or even desirable, to give the family a natural breakfast.

It is the same old story: "Women complain of slavery, but when opportunities are presented for better conditions, they are the first to cry, "No, no!" One says, "We have had hot cakes and coffee for breakfast so long we could not do without them." Another says, "My husband could not eat a bite without his biscuits and bacon." Very well, give the dear ones the same old things in simplified form as long as they want them, as a change of diet without a change of desire is of but little value, keeping higher ideals for them in mind.

"Habit is a cable," but natural evolution is constantly breaking the bonds it fixes upon the individual. As time passes and the "same old things" are served with an occasional sprinkling of new dishes and new ideas, hope for retained or renewed youth is bom. With it is associated a demand for the best conditions to sustain the normal man. A great love for simple natural living soon adds zest and pleasure from food, unknown before. The appetite, so far as it is abnormal, changes without conscious effort.

As soon as normal habits are established they become an inheritance. For instance, when the boys of three generations are given from infancy a bowl of natural flaked wheat and milk for breakfast, those of the fourth generation will want nothing else. They will develop into stronger and more manly men. Their mothers and wives will breath the air of freedom.

The No Breakfast Plan has become so universal it proves the morning meal to be unnecessary to health and life.

In imitation of this popular theory many mothers say, "O, we only have crisp toast and coffee for breakfast".

This custom does not emancipate woman or improve the nutrition. It reduces breakfast almost to a stimulant that enslaves the digestive organs and glands, as they soon refuse to act without the stimulation of the poison from ash of toast and caffeine of coffee, they must arouse to eliminate, instead of to use, for energy or tissue building. It is a loss of force to the body cells, hence is worse than no breakfast at all for prolonging life.

When a fire must be made and any cooking done the labor is about the same no matter what is served, making a woman's day of work much longer than that of her husband.

The natural breakfast will be a relief to woman even before it becomes universal, as it frees her from the feeling that she must do a certain amount of cooking each day. The dread of cooking and the daily regime of dish washing and other work, at times, is more exhausting than the actual labor.

If it is more convenient for all the members of the family the cooked meal may be served at noon, instead of at six o'clock. It should be simple enough to avoid the temptation to eat excessively. The use of nuts for an evening luncheon will supply the tissue building element for repair during sleep.

Among the advantages of the Long Life System of Diet may be mentioned:

1. More perfect nutrition.

2. Less labor for women.

3. Less expense.

4. Being free in the early morning, women will be more inclined to seek the open air each day, and take regular exercise.

5. The tendency to discard or use less tea and coffee.

6. The tendency to discard or use less salt and sugar.

7. The tendency to discard or use less fried fat and ash crisp food.

8. The tendency to discard or use less dead cell proteid food.

9. The tendency to discard or use less soft food that is liable to be swallowed without thorough mastication.

10. It cultivates the habit of eating fruit at the beginning of a meal to purify the stomach.

11. It induces one to eat more nuts and less or no meat.

12. It induces one to eat more fresh vegetables and less disorganized boiled substances.

13. It induces more water drinking between meals.

14. By using unfired bread or cereals largely for breakfast, and nuts with fruit for luncheon, the other simple non-meat dishes are left for dinner, thus eggs, cheese, vegetables, soups, milk gravy, cream salads, and nut mixtures afford variety easily without meat.

The natural grain in unfired bread and cereals, with fresh fruit and green vegetables, keeps the digestive tract in the most perfect order for the preparation of food for assimilation.

When the alimentary canal is clean and normal and the waste fully eliminated, digestion, assimilation and cell growth are at their best.