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Show Housework Worth j $900 a Year, but J Vine hundred dollars a year is the value of the average housewife's services in tl home, and statu tics show there are 20,700,00, women engage,; In housework, ac cording to Mrs Leonora Z. Medei prominent Clii cago w o in a : lawyer and ecoi omlst. "The wife, said Mrs. Mede; who was forme Leonora Z. Medr. v commission-of commission-of public welfare of Chicago, "is t executive, purchasing agent, budg. expert, and producer rolled into oi;. The successful home maker stud:, food values. She arranges lit budget so that the food she buys wi have all the necessary body builfit "qualities. "The woman who would keep doi her food bill will do better to spe; her money on milk and green vegp, bles than on butter, though butter one of the best sources of the sential food element, vitamin A. T are butter substitutes, but noth can take the place of milk and Tf,-rnbles. Tf,-rnbles. -Milk, food experts say, is the i; nearly perfect food. Science sohl the problem by inventing evapora milk, which Is simply fresh c milk sterilized in cans and with r per cent of the water removed. I cause evaporated milk is of do.-the do.-the richness of ordinary market ie: many housewives dilute it half i half with water for cooking pui-p Keeping longer than ordinary t there Is no waste from souring. T;; too, it is cheaper. "Savings also can be made on m Cheaper portions of beef skill!: cooked are highly nutritious and o', better lasting than portions vt cost more. The shoulder, breast a stew meat of lamb are excellent. shoulders, feet, rails, heart, sparel 1 and hocks are In tlie same eatefoi a. t ' |