Evening star., 1909-05-16
The Small End.

1EPPEL r. FRANCIS. the veteran
H. diplomat, said at dinner:
$50 President Eliot of Harvard on a
paItry S21 900 year, or $500 a week. is
afraid to accept the ambassadorship to
England, eh? Afraid $500 week wouldn't
be enough to spend on entertaining the
idle and rather vicious smart set OF Lon
don? Well."
Mr.. Francis shifted.
yet the average foreign ambassador to
Washington" he said. regards America
as a good place to save money in. He
entertains little and puts by two-thrds
of his salarw. Indeed. one ambassador
and a very successful one, hasn't given
so much as a dinner party in all the
years of his residence here. After all,
in an embassy. as in department store,
intelligence and hard work are the things
that count.
1--WE send to our embassies abroad mil
lionaires resolved TO delight the patron
izing English and German and French
aristocracy with a $4,000 ball a night.
The foreigners send to their embassies
here prudent men resolved that this wild
country is grand place to save money
in. We rather get the treatment meted
out to the egg man.
"A butter and egg man. you know. was
visited by a chap who bought four of his
best eggs.
This chap took the eggs home put
them on to boil. told his wife TO take them
off at the end of three minutes, and then
went upstairs to shave.
When he came down again. half an
hour later. the eggs were still boiling
away. He removed them from the pot
put them in cold water. dried them and
gave them to his little daughter
Take these eggs back he said. to
the man, and tell him it was ducks eggs
that we wanted. If he hasn't got ducks
eggs, bring the money back.
Cutting Out Breakfast.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer
A new food reformer comes out with
| the statement that the way to avoid eat
ing too much is to go without breakfast
He truly says that two meals a day are
enough for the man not engaged in hard
physical labor, and he proposes to dis
pense with breakfast.
This looks like beginning at the wrong
end. If the evening meal is at 6 this
would leave the body eighteen hours with
out food. and put all the eating into. six
This is crowding the stomach. Most per-
sons can get along comfortably with little
or no luncheon. In the middle Of the day
when the mind is actively engaged, it is
not desirable to turn the flow Of blood
to the brain back to the stomach. II
eating luncheon is a confirmed habit the
meal can be made very light
Almost all of the food reformers insist
that we eat too much. What they really
mean is that we eat too much of the
wrong sort of food. 1t is astonishing
that so important matter is given SC
| little attention. 1t is pretty well known
that there are three basic forms Of fooC
which are essential to proper nutrition
and they should be consumed in GER
| tain proportions. But the crucial fac
is that the housewife knows as little o.
this as of the chemistry of cooking
There are some persons who require large
amounts of food, but not great deal o
nutrition. The indications are that mucl
of the food We eat is useless for purpose:
| OF nutrition, but that the alimentary sys
tenn is used to certain amounts OF ma
tcrial to work upon. which cannot be re
duced without distress.
1t is not imposs BILE TO eat just the sor
of food that is best for us, but ii Is i'm
proba Bile that we shall ever get to thi
basis So long as people have appetite
they are likely To pander 10 them ac
cording to individual notions. What We
really need is more food that is nutrltive
while the amount that we consume Whicf
is of little value is seldom harmless II
any resr.ect The trouble is that oul
appetites are not always normal and tina
We do not seek the scientific remedy.