Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-27
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
SLOOKER-ON in IOWA
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

Emmetsburg, Sept. 26.-Recently
there appeared in the T.-R., under the
head of Golden Gossip" (by the way.
an entertaining column to many of the
readers of this daily, the following:
The Looker-On' of the Times-Re-
publican offers a suggestion to older
housekeepers,' telling of a young mar
ried woman who has made the dis
covery that she can live on less meat
and still have q we'll supplied table.
She says it's astonishing how easy it
is, when you get accustomed to it. We
have actually reduced our bill for meat
one-half and now fill up on vegeta-
bles and bread and little side dishes
that cost very little, but must adj
nit it makes more work for the cook.
And l honestly believe we feel better
Bless the dear man! He is as be-
hind the times as is the young house
keeper of whom he writes. Supplying
the table has become study-yes,
really an art with the up to date wom-
an The leading magazines and news
papers have made these subjects among
those thoroughly discussed and tested
by thoughtful housekeepers all over
our land"
Perhaps the writer of the above has
had the same experience of this scribe.
i. e., shooting at one mark and hitting
another. Bless the dear woman! the
writer was not "alludin" to an colder
housekeeper" so far ahead of the
times. He was suggesting something to
real housekeepers, women who, from
force of circumstances, are actually
compelled to prepare meals for self and
family. To such women, who from old
fashioned ideas. think husband not
we'll served unless he has meat three
times a day, there might have been a
new idea in 1t. OF course, as the Cold
en- Gossiper remarks, "there is nourish-
ment enough in fish or nut salad with
this dressing to we'll supply the place OF
meat" but some "up to date" women
are unfortunate enough to have hus-
bands behind the times, so far behind
the times that, after working all day
in the shop, on the railroad or at the
different mechanical trades, they want
something to eat" when they come
home for their meals. 1t was to colder
who have husbands who
are plehian enough in their tastes to
want boiled corn beef and cabbage,
fried liver and onions, sauerkraut
and weinnies, bologna and beer, men
who eat pie for breakfast, and have
other vulgar food appetites, that this
suggestion was made. Now this young
housekeeper that told the writer her
experience in trying to break away
from the three meals Of meat day. ac-
tually said to the Looker-On that she
had heard that up to date people now
drink soup. and do so only when they
can have it served in dishes with two
handles. And this behind the times
young housekeeper says some people
now, at course dinner, are SO
ashamed of every day, plain, white
bread, that it is put on the table COW
cred with napkins. And, again, this
young housekeeper has actually got so
far advanced that she dips her soup
spoon one way and sips it out of the
other side, that is. when it is not bou-
illon she drinks, holding both handles OF
the cup. Since she has read this Golden
Gossip she has got Mrs. Rorer's cook
book, subscribed for the Y. u. Home
ner every day for her husband, self and
baby, and has arranged for 365 different
salads from Oct. /, 1902, to Oct. 1, 1903.
Some one has remarked that one-half
of the world does not know how the
other half lives. II by knowing what
the other half eats is intended, 1t is ex-
actly true. Horace Greedy made him.
self the butt of the newspapers by
writing articles in the Tribune, of what
he didn't know about farming. And so
we have Mrs. Rorer and her different
salads every day for young housekeep-
ers. If the Golden Gossiper should pre-
pare one of her up to date, Mrs. Rorer
cook book meals for a crowd OF men
working on threshing machine all day
she would hear something very much to
her advantage. No one more than the
writer deplores the outrageous, horri-
BILE and barbarous style and kind OF
cooking that many women In Iowa IN
1902 practice, and go unpunished, at
least here on this earth. But If 1t Is
choice between the modern, up to date,
stylish and "finicky" method of prepar-
ing a meal and the old-fashioned way
Of overlooking a table with the good
things the Lord gives US, let 1T be pro-
claimed right here, give US our grand
mothers old style of cooking. OF course,
the writer is speaking for mankind IN
general, not entirely for himself. He
has been utterly ruined in up to date
STYLES of cooking by living i'm the hotels
Of the state for seventeen long years.
ONLY at rare intervals is he invited out