Excerpt from The Boston Cooking-School Magazine, Vol. 5: June and July, 1900Our constitutions are marred for us long before birth by the excesses or overwork Of our ancestors. We enter life seriously handicapped and then proceed to destroy ourselves. Think Of what is now demanded of child ren and young persons in the way of education, besides what they have to encounter in the diseases that lie in wait for them. As we are here but an instant, comparatively, why should it be Obligatory on each boy and girl to learn of all that has been done On earth? In another existence, do you imagine it will be Of the least import ance that we know how many soldiers were slain at a certain battle in Greece?Oh, give the children more lessons out of doors, as some wise teachers are now doing! Let them enjoy nature and store up strength for future needs. The press is full Of complaints of the unreasonable demands upon young brains, and many little ones fall by the way. This is far from true economy: nearer insanity.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.