The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-03-28
GDODCOOKS VS.. HATCHETS
PROPER FOOD AN ANTIDOTE To
THE SALOON.
What Sociologists and Good Cookery
Enthusiasts Say of Food in its Rela-
tion to the Drink Habit.

CHICAGO, February 23.-Cooks who
are sociologists and sociologists who
believe in the efficacy of good cook
ing rallied yesterday to the support of
the statements made by Jacob kiis, the
New York reformer, in placing cookery
ahead of Mrs. Nations hatchet as an
adversary of the saloon 1t was held
that the alcoholic taste is in most cases
the craving of an improperly nourish-
ed body for stimulants.
Physical health and the happiness
of the home Is the aim of good cook
ing. The mere pleasure of the palate
is a minor consideration" said Mrs.
Alice Peloubet Norton, instructor in
cooking and domestic science at the
Chicago institute, yesterday She con-
tinued:
"A saoonkeeper of Boston said a
few years ago that nothing had hurt
his business so much as the introduce
ton Of courses in cooking into the pub
lie schools. 1t is but reasonable that
such should be the case. When a man
is properly nourished he will not yield
so easily to the craving for alcohol
When women are overworked and un-
dernourished they very often drink
strong tea in large quantities; the prin-
Ciple is he same as in the case Of the
men who go to the saloons.
ut is not difficult to make choice
steak palatable but when the meat
is of Door quality great skill is needed.
The same is true in the preparation OF
the cheaper vegetables, sUcH as beans.
When the wife knows how to select the
best that her means will afford and
then has skill i'm preparing it, the tone
of the/home is wholesome at least.
Good food and pure water are the chief
essentials of health, and those who
have them are usually in a condition
lnlf q O.
to which every one is exposed.
starvation is possible even to the
well TODD who do not understand the
value of different foods There are
many persons in good circumstances
who through ignorance do not eat the
things that their bOdies require ana L
am sure that there are children who
literally starve on dainties. 1t is Of
the first Importance for the science Of
foods to be understood by all classes.
I think with Mr. Riis that here lies the
shortest path to the destruction Of the
saloon"
Mrs. Caroline X. Sherman, one Of the
two women of the board of education.
said:
"The Ratchet cannot be compared to
the cooking school as promoter OF
temperance. If man gets good, we'll
cooked food at home he is not apt to
buy beer in saloons to get free lunch.
We had this moral point in mind and
used 1t as an argument when We first
began to work for cooking schools. We
now have twelve cooking centers. Near
ly all of them are in the poorer sec
tons of the city, where the people do
not know how to buy things for the
table or how to prepare them. Any
one who sees what is served up to some
of the poorer working men at their
homes will not be surprised that those
men prefer to spend 5 or 10 cents in a
saloon and get something better to eat.
1 think the cooking school is as valu-
able to girls as a business training is
to boys"
Miss Julia Lathrop of Hull house
said:
"Hull house has long held the posi-
ton that proper nourishment in every
day foodstuffs would do away with the
cravings of a great many men and
women for drink To that end the es-
adjustment of cooking schools in all
parts of the city would necessarily be
beneficial. 1 do not think quite yet
that cooking schools on every street
corner would do away with a CORES
ponding number of saloons. The So
cial charm of the saloon must be reck-
oned with. Therefore the cooking
school must work in several direction"