Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-09
Frugality in Eating and the Art of
Cooking.

\ London letter says that il has Al
last become the cry of fashion 10 eat
Sparingly and drink nothing. The writer
observes:
Long and elaborate dinners are condemned
as hupclesslN Vulgar by the modern London
hostess, who is indebted to the king for IN,
shortening and simplifying of her dinner
menu, accompanied by one wine, instead
of the choice of dozen, and ef the fnre
provided. the unwritten social law now for.
bids even the most hungry guest to nartHke
of more than three or four dishes at the
most,
The proprietor of fashionable lunch
and tea shop recently established in
the vicinity of st. James's street was
asked how ne expected TO run reStnu-
rant without selling wine. He replied
In England, the best people do not
drink wine at luncheon The English
for centuries maintained reputation as
gormandi2erS rivaling that of any of
the continental peoples Evidently in
their high society at least the tide has
turned and extreme frugality in eating
is recognized as good form. The writer
quoted above remarks:
Only last season a hostess served a second
hot supper at > a. IN. Supper tables no
longer groan under the array of costly
dishes, and You viii see the guests az a
Mayfair party quietly melting away after
slipping a cup Of tea or Il glass of lem
onade while the hostesses who rive bnv
tainmeutS cost but 1.-THE of what they
used TO, owing TO the abStomiousnCss of the
youthful guests. These boys aud girls viii
be leading society in decade or so, ana
hence the prediction Is made that the new
frugality is not a passing phenomenon hut
will completely alter the character OF Eng
lish social life,
New York is so responsive to every.
thing English that if the new tendency
in London persists its influence will soon
appear on this side of the Atlantic, The
practice of drinking cocktails before
breakfast, which her husbands wit
neses IN her divorce trial attributed to
Mrs. Howard Gould, will fall into desue
| tude among those desiring TO be regard
| ed as of the front rank in style, Already
| some attention is turned 10 frugal Ewing
| in New York. but il is ut the other end
| of the social scale-not among the very
| rich, but among the very poor, Miss
! Ninifred :. Gibbs, of the visiting staff
of the New York Association for lmprov.
| ing the Conditions of the Poor, says n
| small family can live on ten to fifteen
! cents day for each individual If kuOwi-
! edge and judgment are used in buying
the food supplies and preparing them for
! the table. She laws stress on the fact
| that il is not the most expensive food
! which is the best. and also on the Tact
/ that men who are properly nourished
are less likely than the victims of pnol
| cookery to teeI a craving Tor uflhk.
| She advises purchasing in as large guam
| titles as can be taken care of. and con,
| stant vigilance on the part Of the pur,
chaser to get the worth of the money.
| Particularly sugar, -four, tea eggs, dried
! fruits, butter rice. and oatmeal are AS
rule best bought in quantities sufficient
to last a week ahead. She praises milk
| MS an article of diet, advises extreme dis
erection in the purchase Of meat, and ie.
marks that some Gf the cheap meats
will give large amount of strength and
may he made tender by long, slow cook
ing. Potatoes. she AYERS. will not give
so much strength as can he obtained
from cereal food of the same cost But
the great solution Of the problem OF ifu-
gal living for the poor is knowing how
to cook. The art and science ANA pr2c'
tice Of cooking should be taught TO every
girl in the land, no matter what her con.
dition II life. This should be regarded
as fundamental part Of every girls edu-
ga ton