Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-11-24
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Household "don'ts" for the guidance
of womanhind in her pursuit of culinary
happiness and domestic efficiency We're
dangled in profusion yesterday after
noon before the members of the Ravens
wood Woman's club of Chicago by Mrs
George w. Plummer in an address on
What to Eat and What to Drink" Her
method of selection followed the process
of elimination, aud her advice culminat-
ed in a series of epigrammatic 'don'tS'
on what not to eat. what not to drink.
what not to cook and how not to poison
yourself and your family with the food
prepared at the domestic fire place
i keynote don't in Mrs. plummcr's
list was this:
Don't live in a FOOLS paradise by per
suading yourself that the food inspection
of Mr.. Fish Murray or any other no
litical officeholder is an absolute guar
antee against the sale of nOn-poiSnnouS
food products by your grocer or any 9TH
er grocer"
How to get a guarantee that really
guarantees" she told in the following
bit of counsel;
Every woman her own food insoec-
tor Let her do real inspecting of the
meat. vegetables, fruit and other food
supplies that come into her household
and, if possible, let her inspect them be-
fore. rather than after they come into
her possession, so that she will be spared
the trouble Of sending them back"
Other salient 'don'ts" in Mrs. Plum
mer's category were:
Don't mind other peoples business
Don't take politics too seriously.
Don't bother too much with the reform
or uplift movement-ask yourself what Will
it profit a woman to reform the Who'll,
NOi.u Il sue poisons her family with badly
cooked meals?
Don't take the grocer's or butchers word
for it-eXamine, inspect the food materials
hot ho vXTpp IN hot
want TO buy.
Don't be satisfied with merely asking
where the baby's milk is bottled.
Don't cease your inquiries until you trace
the milk back to the farm and the COW and
know that it is MIXED, shipped and mar
keted In sanitary way.
Don't be content with superficial or hear
say information on any subject pertaining
TO food supplies consumed in your family
it is one of the household sins of the agn
that woman does not go to the bottom of
anything except her husbands purse.
Don't rely upon the factories for your
winters supply of canned foods-can your
own vegetables and fruits and grind your
own sausage meat, just as your grandmoth-
erS did these things.
Don't buy any canned or bottled goods
unless the can or bottle has a government
label. as the pure food laws passed recently
require il to be plainly stated Oh the label
If there is ColUring matter or any sort of
dye or preservativc in bottled or canned
foods.
"Groccrs and butchers sometimes get
rather gay. as the saying is. especially
when they think they are sure of your
trade said the speaker. They can al
ways be brought to time, however, if Il
considera Bile number Of customers enter
! a united protest that square meal j.
I impossible III the average American
household unless the grocer and butcher
give square deal. 1t is easy to bring
the consensus of opinion from indignant
customers To bear on the butcher or the
grocer They are sensitive to the Spectcr
of possible loss Of trade and it will not
be necessary for some years to come 10
form customers union to bring them
to time