Evening star., 1895-01-12

governmental concern than the study OF
nutrttive foods. Furthermore, the produc-
ing power of every labor is conditioned as
much by the air he breathes as by the food
he eats, so that 1t seems to me If the gov
ernment is going into the kitchen to look
after the marketing and cooking OF the
people 1t ought to pay some attention to
and educate the people in architecture and
landscape gardening.
Perhaps I don't know what architecture
Is. 1t may be altogether a matter of
Queen Anne front and Mary Ann back to
Increase the value of real estate and look
up to your neighbor. But lately took an
object lesson in landscape gardening from
Frederick Law Olmsted, and learned that
here is an art designed to serve man with
reference to human life first, and human
vanity afterward. Well drained land or
that which can be well drained, good sani-
venient and comfortable approaches to a
house-these are a few of the practical
points about which the landscape gardener
can tell you things never dreamed of in
your untaught philosophy Of what makes
happy home.
But didn't have a chance to tell Secre-
tary Morton the thoughts I have on land
scape gardening. happy homes or much of
anything else directly. I said: "Mr. Sec
retary. you urge in your report careful
consideration of all other domestic ami
mails; why not do something for women
orny?''
The Secretary at once told me that pa
terna1sm in government has gone far
enough and that we want to do away with
a feW bureaus instead of establishing new
ones. THE stability Of this government"
SAID ne depends on the self-reliance of its
individuals. Thousands of dollars are be-
ing thrown to the dogs in this department
now. Whether a man wants information
or anything else, unless it costs him some
thing to acquire. it does him no good"
however, when he had had his say about
the pernicious effects of paternalism In
government. Secretary Morton told me a
bureau OF domestic economy already exists
Prof. Atwater's first report on the nutritive
Nalue and cost of foods. also a report of
Edward Atkinson on nutritive cookery.
Prof. Atwater has been pretty generally
suspected of subsidized, sensational am
bltlon to discover in the study of nutri-
ments tie possibility of inclosing the es-
sential elements of a square meal in a
sugar-coated pill. to be taken three times a
day, thus reducing the servant question
and boarding house business to an alb
surdity. AS matter of fact, his report
contains information which housekeepers
have hitherto been able to acquire only
through long, expensive experience The
stale joke about Vassar girls buying beef
steak by the yard has it's origin in fact A
woman can't buy meat and vegetables eco
Ironically by instinct. Therefore, Prof. At
water has provided set Of tables showing
the composition of different food materials.
Nutritive Value, Not Price.
He takes one after another material and
designateS the relative refuse and edible
portion it contains. He previously makes
clear that certain quantity of certain
chemical elements in certain ratio is neces-
sary to support life. Then, in these tables,
he resolves the edible portion Of foods
named into the relative amount of the sew
eral essential elements each contains. With
this information, then, the new housekeep-
er Is able TO practice true economy-that is,
be guided in the selection of food materials
not by the price per pound but by the
nutritiye value of what she buys. For in
stance, Prof. Atwater shows that fresh
meat contains a less per cent of nitro
genous substances than cheese. 1t is also
more costly. A housekeeper having to
economize, then, may SO combine cheese
with her dinner as to do with less meat,
and at the same time give her family the
nouriShment they require. Likewise, in the
matter of vegetables. beans. peas lentils
may be substituted for meat, without any
sacrifice of the nutritive element that meat
contains. Thus, by the aid of Prof. At
keeper may provide for her table as salts
factorily and with as little waste as her
mother.
Supplemental to this knowledge of the
Eutritive value of foods is Edward Atkin- |
sons suggestions regarding the cooking of
food. DR.. Atkinson has invented a means
for the apple alton OF heat to food, which |
he calls the Aladdin oven. The principle of |
and it consists in providing a non-heat-con-
Quoting chamber to which heat may be
conveyed by measure and maintained at an
even temperature.
This apparatus is designed to overcome
the irregularities of the uncertain cook
steve, and the indigestibilities of quick, |
urderdone cooking. With 1t DR.. Atkinson
claims that all else that is required to be a
good cook is one part Of food and one
part of gumption.
One godly man to eat the cooking occurs |
to me as another requisite to begin with, |
but, of course, DIR. Atkirsons experiments |
were conducted in New England, where a |
man in the family is not so inevitably to |
be considered.
However, I'm going to have one of the |
Aladdin ovens; I'm going to have every |
other new thing in housekeeping that in |
the least recommends itself to reason, and |
Pm going to set to keeping house on the |
do anything that you can |
get any body to do for you. If, ultimately, |
I do not develop science of good house |
keeping in place of the chaotic conditions |
that make women slaves in their homes |
if l don't I'll meekly score a |
failure for PAULINE PRY.
THE WOMAN'S PAJAMA.