Show i I Dont Economize n on the Table I j 1 MARGARET A G RE E SANGSTER NG TER I 1 w was Sitting one day in hi a ferry boat ant and I I could not avoid hearing the con the women who were ware my fellow passengers One of them was very dr dressed and her t friend seamed impressed ed with the ele ganee ganco of her costume on which she made admiring comments particularly praising the richness of the material and the exclusiveness of the style You dont get style like this said the first unless you pay for it t I If f went to lams lIms X 1 and her prices are frIghtfully high but I was willing to meet them for J I h had 4 made the subject of dress a study and was determined to look as well as any anyone one in the town I see by your expression that you are wondering how I managed it iton iton on Edwards salary I did it by econ eoon economy omy I never go o beyond my means I snake it a rule to save on my table Ed Edward ward and the children get along quite wall on cheap cheaD cuts of meat and andon nd on codfish and potatoEs as they would on beefsteak k and chops such as you have on Your table aU all t tl p while The other woman shook her head John would never allow saving on the table He insists that the children 1 must be nourished with the best food and that he would rather pay the butcher than the doctor The boat bumped against the dork dock and as out ou custom Is In this hurrying country we all rushed together to tomake make the landing with what speed we might and to start on our several ways Of my neighbors In the I saw no more but I had my private conclusions about a wife and mother whose vanity was so pronounced that for the sake of personal adornment r rich Ch garments and nd costly finery she deliberately abridged eq the file supplies of her table I had a vision o of her 4 r hUB hus hUBband husband band somewhat scantily fed and of I her children and pallid pallia in or order I der that she might hold her own with I the wives of wealthier men th than n Ed Edward 1 ward I had great respect for John of the sturdier fiber and for his sen sensible sensible sible wife It is misnamed economy that puts the emphasis of living on onGiE GiE If ss and spends so much for clothing that neither body nor brain can be i furnished with a diet that makes good J red ed blood and maintains physical strength at the highest highe point of excel Ie nce r I do not think that many American merican women men make this egregious blunder The alphabet of frugality is SQ so little 1 un understood by most of f us that we expend ex pend far more than we need on the table the me rate of lavishness run lUn lUnning ling ning s st g t through aU all our daily and through the ordering of I our nur homes Every one has heard the observation that a fam family family ily in France can live Jive comfortably on what in an American kitchen en is habit ally thrown away Undoubtedly there is some truth in this many women i having ha no preliminary training in ta taking ing care of and of o odds s samI I and amI ends end and others h having ving not the f faintest idea of what and how to buy buyA I IA A course in marketing should be a ar I r art of every young womans education i it t ion tion and a 8 course urse in catering caterin would i do 10 few girth lr harm I The ordinary cook and housemaid survey furey with scorn the mistress who I keep tally of t tbt q ar butter qU r d dg E g S that are u eft In the kitchen kUcheR and Anft I If regards f ards with disfavor the thrifty habit I of keening on the back of the range That into which every I r kM r in France puts the scraps n 1 bits that combine to make ke a say sav Soui up I 1 good table thle is one en wIden which at r f me meal I appetizing alyd fod f god is laced aced in sufficient variety to tott tt tf the palate and build up the familY fr from m the bab baby to the grand grandfather father in anti viger W Wa h hear heart r rt t great deal in these days about food adulteration and it is Safe fe to say y that people Tt ople who hu largely eb on p umed goods antl V fO should Py of the best and anda a az old oid those whose wares ayes x cannot 5 stand tan d t the hf test of chemical I To say that all such ht pads d spa aQuI adul adulterated is to speak foolishly and to ut utter ter Ji a sweeping censure that is not de desErved sErved There are firms whose very names 1 gu tee their responsibility and whose imprint 0 on any brand nd of mat or ve vegetables may be instantly and slY accepted Here there Is fIrn in choosing what is offered at a IJ The cheapest viands on the grocers are pot not invariably the thebE bE bt t Probably a day is coming when foods of every kind will be submitted as a mull and cream now are reo to critical so that homes may y be guarded from the subtle poisons that lurk under the of attractive articles for tale table What constitutes a good table The answer win will be made in accordance with our different tastes Nature pro sides ides H for human sustenance in delicious fruits succulent vegetables and grains that nUlt are ape abundant apP mt in vail vari ety and fun full of f We Ve begin the day with fruit either in the natural state er ar well cooked Here Her e j there is Jarg roem for choice Bake d dapples apples and stewed prunes would in i many cases shut the door on bitter hills TIllIs and potions once enca c n i In inevitable evitable as part of UtI tite diet cHet of children Is there anywhere a man pr or woman growing old who has not ble e recollections of nauseous doses force d upon reluctant tips lips in childhood Ther e was Ras once a brew compounded of senna Senn a and manna that had a peculiarly odious odi odious ous flavor and as f fer r sYrup of rhu rhubarb barb III s pare and castor oU oil few were the boys and gIrls who w o were e rot In former fermer days to take tak e them as the price of health Fruit in i n en its season does away y in the Ule main wit h the necessity for such des and is i s therefore the t e of a good goo d table Next to this come cereals lEi of every kind the chief ment for th P housekeeper in selecting her grains grain s and meals and flakes being Boing to resort resor t fr fre to change so that the table e b be not monotonous For people who wh 0 do not go forth to daily labor a light breakfast is preferable to a heavy one But a m man n whose luncheon must be b e slight or a child chUd going to school should have fish eg eggs s or moot meat in IId ad addition to fruit and cereal ereal Grown pee peo pIp pie may may have good tea and ana good cof coff coffee f fee c at as an accompaniment of their r rne meals ls anti pf plenty nty of bread and butter butte r must not be omitted For children and young people milk Is bett better r than stint stimulating coffee and tea is more or less a movable e feast whethEr It be taen at midday or tater later Where th the men of a house household household hold can conveniently come home to toa t ta o a noonday dinner the tho ideal conditions condition s for health obtain but a majority o of f families find the late dinner linner I sable It should begin with soup or o r broth For Far what Jf liP so many neat Y housekeepers house rs look u upon as wry an elaborate dinner but su superfluous i la fR a simple one Is a problem i I h have e never ver been able to solve typo On e I establIsh the habit of preparing and serving soup every day and it will bo be found that t this ts is a as easy sy and simple as a any other oUr e As an n to dinner a soup with meat as a basis or with a bisque of vegetables and milk Is an admira admirable admirable ble aId to digestion and acts as a spur pur when one is too weary immediately to toa assimilate a more solid food A roast or ora ora a broil of beef mutton pr or chicken fol following wing lowing lo soup accompanied by y two vegetables vege vegetables tables sufficiently fIlls toe the bill for an I ordinary or dinner After tills may come a salad alad or a sweet according to choice chol e eIn In the daily menu these are not naves necessary sary at the same time Ume although gh when the dinner is a a function to whIch guests have be n asked neither of those these cour courses es cap can be omitted emitted In some some departments ot of the home there must always be constant consideration consid consideration of ways and means since most Incomes are limited and no single in individual 1 can do everything th that t he or she he would like e In the vieW Qt qi t the e prudent It Is wi wiser er to with clothing than with good food as we want Rant for the dailY work what the prized above aU all B a sound mind In ft a sound bogy batty Copyright 1606 by Jo eDh B |