The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-16

Now is the time for the inventive
housekeeper TO think up nice little
dishes as a. substitute for meat in the
face OF a strike that may assume Sc
rious proportions. We are all so in the
habit OF depending on meat as the
piece de resistance OF luncheon and
dinner that a meat famine fills US with
alarm. But take YOUR cook book, for
instance. that gives a menu for each
day OF the year. ana you viii be sur
prised TO ma how we'll you can live
with out little meat. In the first place.
mea1. is very little eaten Tor breakfast
now by anybody. Fruit. breakfast
food. eggs and coffee is quite a hearty
enough breakfast and If you are stout
and want 10 lose flesh. don't eat any
breakfast at ali For luncheon YOU will
think YOU must have chops. cold meat
or something substantial take your
recipe book and study il for while
and YOU will be surprised at the good
dishes YOU can ger I'D
There is 1Sh: now with good fish
no one should sJarVe- If the amaiga-
mated butchers do not soon adjust their
differences We may have 10 resort TO
fIsh Ia place OF meat. Fish is brain
food and has a great advantage over
meat Even If one Is not a vegetarian
II IS quite plain that we all eat too
much meat For women it IS not very
g00d. as excessive meat eating ruins
the complexion. II We must have
meat famine il could not come at a
better time as IN summer we do not
require the strong food necessary in
cold weather. Now Is an excellent
time 10 try experiments in dishes made
without meat. and 10 DO this il is not
necessary 10 become a vegetarian
If women would pay more attention
20 the table, Spend q little more time in
getting up appetiZIng dishes for their
husbands. the sum OF domestic happi-
ness would be greatly increased. In
deed. much trouble between husbands
and wives could be avoided If q mans
material wants were better attended
10. Now the writer is not one who
thinks that woman Is lost If she does
not know how 10 cook. or that there
IS Rothing so beautiful as domestic
work. but when q woman marries she
must expect 10 spend great deal OF
tina in making her husband happy and
olling the wheels the domestic char
loU. No amount OF sweet smiling viii
make I'D 10 man Tor q bad dinner
aad time consumed in thinking I'D and
cOncocting nice little dishes is not
time wasted
Just suppose for instance. that one
must get I'D a dinner without any
meat al all as indeed may be the case
before long. The housewife VINO has
even Ene most ordinary cook book and
access 10 q nsh market need have no
fear OF not being able 10 serve a most
delicious dinner And should the strike
continue for a long time there is no
danger OF starving. Indeed some fem
mime compilations might be vastly inn
proved and masculine livers toned I'D.
by the very absence OF the food that
We all now believe We cannot get along
without Fish viii undoubtedly go I'D
iu price if this trouble continues. but
even that ought not to worry the
housekeeper VINO is resourceful and I'M
d-rstands catering.
The women have chance now to
make a virtue OF necessity and to dis
cover the many dainty meals which
can be served without meat. When an
emergency is really at hand it is almost
always women VINO rise TO the occa-
sion and make the best OF things So
that IL this meat famine-which is
really not here quite yet-does mate
tialze, it will teach the housekeeper
many things. and it is doubtful whether
her meat bills viii ever be as large
after it IS over as they were before.