He doesn't look well, and I don't see how he can be well, on the kind of cooking you can get in Thorbury." Mrs.Tolbridge flushed a little.
"I am sure," she said, "that Thorbury people, for generations and generations, have lived on Thorbury cooking, and they have been just as healthy as any other people." "Ah, Kitty, Kitty!" exclaimed the old lady, "you forget how things have changed.

In times gone by the ladies of the household superintended all the cooking, and did a good deal of it besides; and they brought something into the kitchen that seldom gets into it now, and that is brains.

A cook with a complete set of brains might be pretty hard to get, and would cost a good deal of money.

But it is your duty, Kitty, to get as good a one as you can.

If she has only a tea-cup full of brains, it will be better than none at all.