The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-08-20
By SONORA SARA.

Generous-hearted house mother, thest
D are the days when you must abate some
. of your rich cooking. Half of the Sum.
mer suffering of your family is prob.
d; ably due to the fact that because Johnny
wants pancakes" and hubby wants
;, roast pork and apple sauce" daughter
I. wants plum pudding, and grandmother
|, thinks she must have hot biscuit, and
> all think they must have meat three
I. times day. and then some-that you
In the goodness of your heart, want to
+, please them, so furnish all this truck to
: them. exactly as tho the mercury was
trying to crawl out at the bottom Of the
, tube rather than the top.
u There Is an old saying. Fruit out OF
season, trouble out of reason" Now, thai
does not exactly mean fruit" don't you
know. any more than when you say
man." when referring to the human
family, that you exclude women. II
means that when you go on feeding
your family on heating. heavy things In
Summer and green. succu1ent, blood
thinning things in Winter you are going
to have sickness. A well-balanced ra-
ton is an excellent thing to know about,
but in family the best thing 70 know
about Is the thing that can be gotten
with the least exertion and the maxi
mum of pleasure and profit for the fam
lily in the way of food. In the first
place. unless there are members of your
family who are doing real manual labor.
at which they use up lots of vital force,
meat once a day is quite sufficient. Now.
there Is no guesswork about this; 1t is
. a plain. simple statement of fact. No
man feeds heavy ration of corn to his
horses in Summer. because 1t is too
heating" 1t is also too fattening. This
| is true of meat. It is heating food, and
i II adds adipose tissue--fat-which you
do not work off because it is too hot to
| work. That Is one reason so many
women put on flesh in Summer. They
eat just as rich and heavy foods in
| Summer, when they avoid exercise as
much as possible, as they eat in Winter,
when they exercise to keep warm.
| Now, just little caution about what
to eat and drink. Just as little meat.
remember, as it is possible to coax the
family to get along with. All the green
vegetables that you want to eat except
| ing potatoes. Potatoes have lots of
starch in them, and are a good deal like
meat, heating. Use rice instead of po-
tatoes. You have no idea what fine
vegetable, entree or dessert can be made
of rice. Cook all the vegetables care
| fully and make them appetizing. 1t Is
difficult to eat too much of most of the
| garden vegetables, because they are
largely water.
Use fruit freely, apples especially II
you must have desserts make them
largely of frlit and use just as little
pastry as possible. No pies, just plain
cake with fruit jeIlies for the layer
varieties or have custards, frozen or
plain. Eggs in almost any style could
be made TO take the place of meat.
Do not drink i6e-cold things. Ice
water is a delusion and a snare. The
more you drink. the more you viii erave
it, and it cools the stomach, stops the
work Of the digestive apparatus, and
the first thing you know all sorts of
bowel troubles ensue. This is no fancy
talk, but truth, no matter how much
you may desire to scout 1t. If you wish
to avoid all possibility of tainted water,
boil all the drinking water, and pour 1t
into well-scalded {scaid each day. bot
ties or fruit jars, cover securely and
place in the ice box. In half an hour
they are quite cool enough for safe
drinking, and you will not have to waste |
ice cooling the drink. If you want tea
to drink. make 1t in the morning by !
pouring boiling water on the tea leaves. |
Let this stand for a few minutes, then |
pour the strong liquid in a bottle and
stand in the icebox. At meal time the
tea can be diluted in a cooled pitcher
with the water from the bottles. and
you have a refreshing drink, which is |
least three lemons to each quart Of tea.
You can have iced coffee made in the
same manner. Lemonade can also be
made in the same economical and
healthful manner. If you have bottled
fruit juices, You can make a delicious
beverage by treating them as you do
lemonade, or make a punch by combin-
ing several kinds of fruit. This matter
of Summer drinks is really serious. We
do drink such a lot of trash at five and
10 cents a glass, when We might have
the simon-pure, unharmful. homemade
beverage.
Eschew all kinds of hot bread. rolls
and soft bakers bread. BaksF's bread,
fresh, Is horrible stuff at BEST but the
nasty, sticky. soft stuff in Sunni er is al
most uneatable. If you must depend
slice it thin and toast 1t brown. 1t can't
do so very much harm when fixed that
way ALI hot breads are indigestble,
not because they are hot" but because
hot bread is always clammy, and by the
time it gets into the stomach it is a
hard wad of glue and starch, and fer
ments before it digcsts Then you have
heartburn" .hatulence," indigestion"
and dyspepsia.
There are a few other things that
must be taken into account if you ex-
pect to enjoy gooa~health and be happy
in Summer. Clean clothes is one thing.
Clean body clothes are absolutely essen
tial. No human being can be absolutely
clean who does not battle at least once
a day in Summer and change the body
at least three times a week.
Of course. il is desirable to have clean
outside clothing, but 1t is not always !,
practicable to have this, as it costs
money to be clean. A rather plain young :
lady said pathetically one day. IF | had
he money and the time l could be beau
.iful, for l would have my hair beauti- . .
fully cleaned and coifed: l would have 1,
my nails manfcured twice a week; .
would have a bath twice day and a
Turkish bath twice week; / would !
have my teeth taken care of by the best
dentists. and my eyes by the most emil
nent oculists. My bootmaker should
give my feet the same fit that my glove
maker does my hands, and my modiste
md milliner would be paid to analyZe
ny moods and provide fitting drapery y
or a figure and face which they would ~
De expected to make attractive. With .
money to buy the commercial commodi- :
ies-for that is what consider all the
could cultivate my mind, =
invite my soul. and thus benefit man.
lind by being a sweet. lOvable, attrac- !
i've woman"
Now. this is no pipe dream Just read /,
t carefully again, and you will see that =
ny friend took the sensible view of the !,
hing. But, alas! we can't all of us =
work. these thing out this way. for we 3
lave not the time, nor the money. The
lext best thing is the inclination. And
Ill l.. a.