The sight of the loaded plate will discourage a weak appetite, and the delicate stomach will revolt at the suggestion of accepting such a mass.

A small bird, a neatly trimmed French chop, a bit of tenderloin steak, or tender broiled chicken, will be eaten, when, if two chops or half a steak were offered, not a mouthful would be swallowed.

To the well and strong this may seem like folly, but let us, in our strength, pity and humor the weaknesses of those upon whom God has laid suffering.

It takes all the ingenuity and tact which love can muster to make a sick-room tolerable, and food anything but distasteful.
A poor consumptive girl had fancied that she could eat a few raw oysters, and the physician cheerfully prescribed them.

At his next visit he was met by the mother, who informed him with dismay that her daughter would not touch the delicacy--"her stomach turned against it the instant the dish was brought in." "How many did you let her see ?" he asked.
"Two dozen!" "Which would have daunted a well man, madam!" said the wise man.