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Show I THE HOUSEWIFE , AND HER DREAD Tho high cost of Tour and advance I In prlco of bread In many placos linn I started somo discussion In tho worn-I worn-I en's clubs and the homes its to whether whe-ther women today should make tholr own bread or not. To many of tho older housowlvcs, buying It from tho baker or the grocer sooms rather shiftless. In their industrious creed nnd practice tho bread beard and tho kneading trough lay at tho founda tlon of good housekeeping. A brldo who could not manipulate tho rolling pin should novor havo been married. mar-ried. Many of tho domestic economists ot tho prercnt day bellovo that homo bread mak ng Is fast going tho way of tho homo curing of meats or grinding grind-ing meal, which scarcely exist today. As thoy lofk ot it, the food manit facturor paves enough by buying materials ma-terials in 'argo quantities to moko up for tho tost of tho labor, so that the housewife gets little or perhaps nothing whatever for her laborious hours In tho pantry. Tho old stylo linker often thought first of tho number of loaves ho could produco out ot n barrel ot flour. Tho baker's bread olio used to seo thus often had a certain spongy and elastic elas-tic quality. It seemed as It tho ma torlnl had been expanded In somo w-ny, to mnko It scorn light, nnd giving giv-ing an erroneous impression of tho oxtont of its food vnluo, Good homo mndo bread novor convoyed con-voyed this Improsslon, and has a cer tain firmness that gives a pleasant feeling of Hiibstnntlal quality. Tho greatly increased snlo of bread prepared outsldo of tho homo must havo been duo to a realization by food producers, that thoy must plea so tho public by n good eating quality. Tho old tlmo homo modo bread, with good butter, was very appetizing. A hungry hoy would eat It ravenously, nsklng no sauces to make It moro toothsome. During recent yenro bakers havo been learning from tho nrts ot tho old tlmo housowifo and perhaps hot-terlng hot-terlng her. A good business Is tho result. If tho producer ninkc3 It clear that his methods nro strictly cleanly, ho will find nil tho trndo ho wants. |