The Mankato free press., 1907-12-20
It's a Hard Jolt for the Cruel
Meat Trust, All Right.
Tissue Builders Cost More Than
Other Kinds of Food.
Must Masticate 1t Thoroughly;
Pares the Expenses.

"No, l don't want you to use my
name. If | were an important per-
son / wouldn't mind, but being just
a plain little body it might seem alb
surd to quote me. But I'd like to tell
you my experience said a Mankato
woman in a talk about household ex-
penses.
''My husband and made up our
minds last year that we could and
must do something to side-step the
rise in food prices. Our income re-
mained the same, and so we expert
mented 1t took us long time, but
at last we've hit the right thing, and
I want other to know about it.
Give just settled up my table ex-
pense account for last month, and
find that it amounts to $l9.0S. That
is more than So less than it was the
previous month, although before this
experiment reached maturity our table
expenses had never been below $25,
The surprising part of this reduced
bill is that it includes the expense of
company.
Make Study of Foods.
"Flecherism, a study of foods,
but of extra common sense, and you
have the secret of living well and
saving money. First of all we found
that by fetcherizing that is by mas
ticating every mouthful of food until
we had extracted all its nourishment,
we greatly reduced the necessary
amount We have only two meals a
day, and both are light ones. No
breakfasts, lunch mere snack, and
dinner so simplifed that most people
would call it light lunch. But We
never bolt morsel.
"Meat we no longer want or. require
so we have it only when there's COM
pany that wouldn't be satisfied with
out it. We need very few eggs. Doing
without coffee and cutting down tea
made milk almost superfluous, and we
take only a quart every other day.
Occasionally I order half a pint of
cream to whip for dessert.
Hearth? Well, L should say So
Fletcherism has done us worlds of
good. Neither of us ever knew such
health My husbands indigestion has
disappeared and I'm much stronger than
was. I'm not quite expert at this
new way yet. but next month I ex-
pect to cut the bills down still fur
ther. I'm sure they ought not to be
over $l5 for our family with clever
management.
Go in For Heat Producers.
| "Now as to what we eat. You know
| that ordinarily vegetarian diet is just
as expensive as the usual one. They
all 90 in for nuts. Nuts are dread
fully expensive. We go in for heat an
energy producers instead of tissue
builders. Now don't repeat that old
falacy about sweets running the diges-
tion. The machinery for the diges-
tion of starches and sugars is in the
mouth, not in the stomach, and if you
send starcnes and sugar down undiges-
ted as most people do, the stomach
and intestines register their protest,
the one by making you uncomfortable
the other by making you ugly"
''But you've simply got to have
muscle making stuff" exclaimed the in
terviewer grudgingly.
"That's a fallacy that will soon be
as obsolete as hoops" answered the
little woman. "Think of it. Do you
need machine on brass and iron and
steel and copper? No. Well then why
should you feed body on flesh? Our
bodies are machines that need only
repairing, not remaking. Now nature
is on the side of people here as every
where else, only we make out she isn't.
Tissue Builders Cost Money.
'The beauty of all this is that it's
the tissue builders that cost money,
not the starches and sugars. What
are the things that have made the
sensational leaps in price? Meat, eggs
and dairy products. You never hear of
changes in price of potatoes, rice, ma
caroni, squash, carrots onions or spin
ach.
Cereals are certainly cheap and plen-
tiful enought. Sugar and chocolate re-
main about the same the year round.
Olive oil varies but little Apples and
bananas are within the reach of every
one.
"There are dried prunes, peaches
pears and apricots, old reliables that
never change No one thinks of corn
ering the market in dates, figs or
raisins.
''But these are the bases, if you
want to make them so, of a perfect
lIv balanced diet. lake our own case.
Our noon meal and our first one is a
cereal with fruit or some cooked
fruit with bread and butter. The less
I'VE east in the middle of the day, we