This Book Is dedicated to my husband and children, and to the mothers of now, and to the mothers yet to be:

To my husband, Charles Montresor Brown, because his recently completed novel - "The White World; or, The Coming Life" - in which the marvelous people so ingeniously divulged the secret of perpetual youth, aroused in my mind the idea of establishing the principle of "normal life," evidently practised unconsciously by our early progenitors, but now lost, or merged into high living, and abnormal and unnatural habits of cooking and eating; this normal life that is free from suffering, and deterioration of the body cells, can be established now, intelligently, as a race acquisition through education.

To my children, Helen Gardener and Myrtle Undine Brown, as, in their childish innocence, they have taught me many lessons in normal living that I could not have acquired from older people with abnormal habits already formed. They have been the first to adopt the system, herein exemplified, by planning natural school lunches, and will soon be among the educators of the next generation, exerting their influence to have "Scientific Living" introduced into the public schools of our free country.

To the mothers of now, and the mothers yet to be, because the child must be trained from infancy, and should also be prenatally influenced, to cultivate and establish normal tastes, and habits, to obtain the most from a practical system of hygienic living; and to all progressive mothers, who desire to protect their children from suffering, and are ambitious for the best conditions of child-life because they have the courage to sustain every new cause during its stage of criticism and persecution, until the masses are developed to accept it.

The Author.