Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-01-03
IL HW WEEY

Now lDr. Wiley is an authority
probably the greatest in America-up-
an What certain foods. under certain
conditions, will do to Il man. In the
course OF experiments in thai direc-
ZION he has presided over m;,n, poi
ton' squads.
Il remember once going 10 a farm
"rs' institute used to go to a good
many of them he said-''and hearing
a very nice lady read a very nice pa
per on how to keep husbands at home.
We all listened with deep attention
while she told the ladies' all about
greeting him with a smile and always
taking the trouble to dress prettily for
him. and. of course, having the house
SpotlesS. and seeing that there were
fresh flowers in vases in summe and
Il bright fire burning cheerfully OH the
hearth in winter, and so on and so on.
When ii was all over. an old lady
sitting on II of the back seats arose
aud aid I have been greatly edited
Hnd interested by what Mrs. Blank has
said: but l fancy l have had more ex-
p%eriencc in this matter of keeping nus
bands at home than she has. more. per-
haps. than most of you here present
and want to say that in all those
wears of experience l have found that
there is just one way. one infallible
rule. beautiful in it's simplicity. unfaiI-
ing in It's application. and that is
FEED THE BRCTES!'
And that old lady was right. IL II:
man comes home to three good meals
a day. good food and plenty Of ii. we'll
cooked and we'll served. with IA reason
do you think he's going to quarrel
with his luck? Why with deep con-
Niction. he'd be a fool!
But coming home to the sort of
meals that too many men have To put
mp with. because their servants, If they
have. fhnut 1nn't krnU- HOW ~ .nnk
and their wives don know how to
teach them. they feel Il natural human
-maSculine-hnsnan at any rate-dcsire
to change their boarding house. And
the only way they can do it i. through
the divorce mill.
1T is fashionable to deplorc the de-
cline of domeSticity. and the increas-
ing popularity Of boarding house and
hotel life. II is customary tn shift the
blame for this upo the servant prob
lem As a matter of fact. the decline
of domesticity is coincident with and
pr~oportionate to the decline of the
knowledge of the gentle art OF cooking.
Our gr~andmothers Were roubled
neither with II servant question nor
yet With a divorce problem'-and the
Two are. in the final analysis. closely
:illied-bocause what their servanrs did
not know they were qualified to teach
them. And This ability tn teach their
maids. of course. involved the ability
to do the thing themselves. Hence the
departure of Il servant was not quite
the tragedy that 1t Is today. Nor was
the maid who knew how so scarce that
her price was above rubles. so that she
was ever seeking greater and yet again
greater compensation for her services.
Their gralddaughters don't know
how. 1t is their own helplessness that
creates "a servant problem. that drives
their families to boarding houses and
hotels. to the eventual l%oosening Of
martial ties. and increasing disregard
for marital obligations.
'Of course. l know that it is not al
WAYS the man who seeks the divorce.
More frequently. perhaps. ii Is the
woman. She seeks IL ON the grounds
of 'incompatability. abandonment
cruelty drunk enness. more often
than for scriptural cause. And more
efficient cookery would go a long way
toward removing these causes.
"Some of the meals hat the man in
average circumstances has tn sit down
20 are enough to drive any man to
d!iD'.-Tm no saying that they do. Hut