The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-11-08
a woRKINGMANs DIETARY.
A Letter to Workingmen's Wives
by Miss Juliet Corson, Super
intendent of the New York
Cooking School.

The man whose home is managedi
~ n thrifty wife, capable of making
Ills wages provide for the comforts
II the family, can never be called q
Door man. If his earnings are snfii- I
lent to allow an abundance of plain,
fare and comfortable clo-
hing, he is in a more prosperous
than many of his business
supcriors. But in order to make
even good wages supply these neces-
sarics of life, and leave little sur
plus for a rainy day, the wife must
be frugal and industrious; she. can
not afford TO maintain those false
ideas about manual labor which are
the root of so much domestic dis
comfort. She must.be willing to do |
herself the things she wants TO be
well done.
1.-The food ofsthe hmily has so much
to do with It's general health, as well
rs with its every day comfort that p \
great part of its housc-kecper's work
should be given to the choice and
treatment. When the money with
which it is TO be provided Is limited
in amount, the greatest care must be
given to its outlay. II is quite pos
siblc to live with a great deal of com
fort on very small sum. If the fam
ily marketer only knows how to
spend its funds and to cook well. A
limited knowledge of cooking among
working people Is tho principal rea-
son why their dietaries are covered
by such narrow range OF dishes,
That they arc sufficiently interested
in the improvement and extension of
their daily fare to take considerable
trouble IN its preparation was fully
proved last year by the eagerness
with which they awaited themselves
of nv gratuitous publication OF
"Fifteen-C Cent Dinners for Working
mems Families" They welcomed
the book and used its information,
which showed them how to provide
hearty hot meal ON the safnol
amount Of money which had generll
ally been expended on little tea
or beor and bread. Their apprecia-
ton of the economical and sanitary
hints contained in the little work
NAV be gathered from the fact that
they Ind called for and received
without charge 2b 900 copies of il in
less than six months from its first
publication. This winter a, benevo-
ient lady has undertaken the expense
of having II translated into German
and nuhiished for the benefit of the
German working people of this CITY.
The ksy-note of the instruction
contained in this hook is the Judi.
cious combination of the cbenpest
foods In snaIatable and hearty dishes.
and their use i'm such succession as
TO meet physical requirements aud
satisfy hunger.
Combination dishes are those
which afford the proper amount of
heat md f,esh-food for the daily use
If The system. A workingmaii re-
on;rcs tiree-ouarters of a Mound of
5eat ,cnod and half an ounce of flesh
lnod every doy that is not the total
bnlk of The food he eats, but the
quantity of Wholesome elements
Which Le derives from, IL. Take for
;natance a no,nd of dried peas. beans
or ieniils when cooked either one
of these foods win SIMPLY him with
six ounces of hent-food and half an
onnce of flesh-food. being nearly rs
much heat-food and twice as much
iicsb food as wheat In any form.
The addition of n little suet or
drippinos in cooking them, will bring
them mn to the standard Of perfectly
healthy food, capable of sustaining
Inc strength of the hardest working
man. THEY cost comparatively less
than bread and butter, or bread and
beer. which 80 often form the bulk
of al least one of the daily meals of
the people. They are very much
cheaper than tho poor cut of meat
which The housewife Away tries to,
get for dinner, and which she too
depriyes of the greater part of its
nutriment by frying or broiling it.
If fresh meat il. used for any meal 1t