Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-11-23
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Household ''don'ts" for the guidance
of wOmanlzind in her pursuit of culinary
happiness and domestic efficiency were
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, and her advice culnlinat-
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"
4 keynote don't" in Mrs. Plummer'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 20
litical officeholder is an absolute guar
antee against the sale of non-polsonons
food products by your grocer or any 9TH
er grocer
How to get guarantee that really
guarantees" she told in the following
bit of counsel:
Every woman her own food lnsoec-
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 tCo much with the reform
or uplift movement-ask yourself what will
it profit a woman to reform the whole
y, oiIu II sue polsons her family with badly
cooked meals?
Don't take the grocers or butchers word
for it-eXamne, inspect the food materials
hot no sell TO that YOU
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 ana
know that it is MIXED, shipped and mar
keted in a sanitary way .so.., ,o,,
say information on any subject pertaining
to food supplies consumed in your family
it is one of the household sins OF the ase
that woman does not go to the bottom OF
ANYTHING except her husbands purse.
Don't rely upon the factories 1or your
winters supply of canned foods-ca1 your
own vegetables and fruits and grind your
own sausage meat, just as your Sranumoth-
erS did these things.
Don't buy any canned or oottleu soo oI,
unless the can or bottle has Il government
label as the pure food laws passed recently
require it to be plainly stated on the lapet
if there is coloring matter or any SORT o1
dye cor preservatiye IN bottled OF e'lneu
foods.
"Grocers 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, II Il
considerable number of customers enter
a united protest that a square meal is
mnossible in the average American
household unless the grocer and butcher
give a 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 specter
of possible loss of trade and 1t VIII not
be necessary for some years to come to
form a customers union to bring them
TO time"