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Tonight we'll read excerpts from the Myrtle Read Cookbook written by Myrtle Read and published in 1916.

Read was an American author, poet, journalist, and philanthropist.

She was a diagnosed insomniac with prescribed sleeping potions called sleeping drafts in her day.

Let's get cozy. Close your eyes.

Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now take a few deep breaths.

Let us proceed to our breakfast in which the table plays no small nor unimportant part.

There are rumors that the pretty and sensible fashion of doilies on the bare table is on the wane.

But let us hope these are untrue or, if not, that some of us may have the courage of our convictions and continue to adhere to a custom which has everything in its favor and nothing against it.

In the absence of handsome top of oak or mahogany, the breakfast cloths, fringed or not, as one likes which are about a yard and a quarter square, are the next best thing.

Asbestos mats under the cloth protect the table from the hot dishes.

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