New-York tribune., 1903-01-19
4 CHEAP DIETARY.
Weehiy Menu Costing 25 Cents n
Day Per CAPITA

is going into the tenement houses to hold cooking
classes said Miss Johnson the lecturer. at the
domestic science class at the Brooklyn Institute
Now the woman from the apartment house may
be able to teach the of the tenement house
something as to food values. but she cannot teach
her anything as to economy in marketing. have
taught domestic science for years, but can always
learn something in the tenement houses as to the
way to extract the most food from a penny. know
one German woman who has to provide on very
small income. and her husband is one of the few
men in that section who seem well fed said TO
her once: Mrs Schmidt, how is it you are able to
feed your husband weIl?'
''Oh. said she. L fool him.
How do you manage it?' inquired. with inter-
est That's always interesting subject you
know. Then she told me that she fed him mostly
on stew. 1t was about the same stew all the time;
but she knew how to make nine different KINDS OF
durnplngs Each time he got different dumping
he thought it different stew. and stews can
be made with cheaper meats and less hre thah
roasts.
These schoolgirls who study so hard and look
Istless and worn" continued the lecturer ''are not
so because of the study. but because they are not
eating right. They are not getting nourshment
enough to provide all the energy they must expend
and they do not spend time enough over their
meals They bolt their breakfasts and hurry away
to school. They skip hastily their luncheon,
and then they are starved at night eat heaVy
dinner and then expect to study two hours before
they go to bed.
dietary 1t must be dgestible paatable and varied.
as well as made up of the proper food elements
going to give you the dietary prepared as d
part of their course by the girls at the Massachu-
sets Institute of Technology They were too To
make out a dietary containing the right proportion
of food elements which would cost % cents a day
per capita, and which they themselves were willing
30 live The time early spring. and the fol-
lowing the result:
'Sunday-Breakfast: Cream Of wheat, baked beans
brox. brao I1,pc Ern
sandwiches sliced oranges, cake and cocoa. DIM
ner: Soup saltines. roast fowl (stufed), hoInlny'
cranberries lettuce salad with French dressing Ice
cream and cake
Perhaps" said MISC johnson, ''you may think
this inadequate luncheon. But just remem-
Der what day this was. Monday isn't blue because
it's washing dav at all. It's blue because OF the
way loaf and treat our stomachs all day Sunday.
We usually have breakfast anywhere from 9 to IL.
Then at 80 an elaborate Sunday dinner is served
And then we ask folks In for Sunday night supper,
and have It extra nice. Or. perhaps, we don't have
any supper but along in the evening get out the
chatting dish and cook crabs and Welsh rareolt.
And then, after having taken less exercise and
more food than any other day in the week, we
wonder that we have blue Mondays Had these
girls been going to take a long walk Sunday morn
ing they would have required a hearter luncheon
But they knew they were going to remain quietly
in the house. and made allowances in their menu.
The week continued follows. either coffee cocoa
or mix being understood with each breakfast or
der:
'.Nonday-Breakfast: One-hah shredded wheat
biscuit boiled egg, graham mullins. apple sauce
Luncheon: flashed chicken on toast fried ham,
cookies apricots tea Dinner: Soup with r1ce).
rib-rolI roast. mashed potatoes, lemon jelly
bananas nuts.
'Tuesday-Breakfast: Half apiece.
wheat germ. creamed Goldfish. cornmeal mufhns'
Luncheon: Vegetable soup. omelette, brown butter
and cream. Dinner: Split pea soup, veal roast
potatoes creamed onions lettuce salad. saltines'
cottage pudding and chocolate sauce.
Observation-Disclosures: Germea, cream toast
bacon. baked apple Luncheon: Irish stew with
dumplings. fruit salad. cookies. cocoa lnner:
Chicken soup. leg of mutton, potatoes. oeets
Norwegian Dessert .p. 1,,,oboor roenu 8" said
the sasbt4 the ea hey eaaed that
cocoa and md the the I fP in to supply the fats lack
ing IN rG Half an orange vitos dry
dinner Diner Soup chicken and veal pie: peas; orange
''Friday-Breakfast Half an orange. oatmeal neal
cFeamed dry 9e e4s eB Gon
sauce, salted peanuts dates; Dinner; aIbeI norHae
potatoes lima beans, lettuce salad saltlnes suet
p"SsH arday1Breakfast Half orange, pettj9hn
fish hash date mg5 saad bakng Poggder
BISCUIT. chocolate Dinner: Bean soup, Hamburge3-
steak baked potatoes carrots; peas ietsuce @ saau'
PERHAPS you think it strange ta that t. sqme PPe
those girls who went to work Immediately after
breakfast and were obliged to expend good deal
of energy sausage made very good breakfast
dish occasionally and tnere is nothing so easy 10
digest bacon. -, .1,-.,
-3Now If [ were asked TO tell you one single th1ng
which would help you more than any other in your
housekeeping X would be to write out your menu
for week at time It is far easier to take an
hour one day in the week and plan a weeks Dill
of fare than to have the unceasing repetlIlon OF
the task every day in the week. You VIII ouy 10
better advantage. you will secure better varleHi &
and the written menu hanging on the wall Will
wonderfully expedite the orders to the cook .
cit is very true that nothing is too remote 70
affect the home. After the campaign for peter
TRANSFORMATION is over. hope one can be peguh
against the exposure Of carcasses Why do butchers
need to expose the slain animal to attract tradeE
some other method of letting the public know that that
meat is for sale would be equally ef1cacious ne
carcass is not pleasant thing to see 1t Is apt Ito TO
take away the housewives appetite when she goes
to market And it gathers bacteria in Its ex2osfa % 20
nositfon No wonder have TO disguise foooS 10
make them palatabe The constant dspIay, OF
Tho same is true of the fruits and vegetables led
in front of the grocer's in summer. gathering aust
and germs and losing their freshness NOW women
ara The rnarketers and they must institute any
reform that comes in this matter
tAs far as that goes. ii is women VINO accom-
nst any reform. It takes men for the tnal efort
the tug of war, the publicity that effects the last
step"