El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-02-05
Mrs. Winifred Harper Coo
ley Lauds Bill Just In
troduced With This
Object.
CHICKEN HELD Il
YEARS TO AWAIT
DEARTH OF FOOD
If Perishable Products Must
Be Eaten When First
Ready for Market
Cost VIII Fall.

New York, n. Y, Feb 5.-"Repre-
sentative J. Hampcen 7ioore's bill.
which he will shortly introduce in con-
gress to make the cold storage of food
product for longer than six months
Illegal, contains the real solution Of the
tremendous evil Of high prices" de-
cIared today Mrs. Winifred Harper
Cooley, national secretary of the Asso-
ciated Clubs Of Domestic ScIence.
why, I've heard of chicken being
kept in cold storage IA years and then
brought and sold as fresh during a
period when there was an apparent
dearth of fowl. When perishabie food
products must be sold as soon as they
are ready to eat and not kept until such
time as the public may be starved into
buying them, then we will have cheap
er prices.
This viii be greatly aided by the wo-
men banding together as suggested in
the Evening Telegram by Mrs. Anita
Comfort Brooks last week. Her theory
of q million housewives united TO alb
stain from meat is the second best
solution"
New York is being driven to board
ing houses and cheap restaurants, to
hash of doubtful ancestry and diges-
tion-destroying chocolate cellars by the
prevailing high prices for food stuffs,
adds Mrs. Cooley Boarding houses
can supply food at d comparatively
cheap rate because they can get IT
cheaper than the private householder
can In the first place they buy in
quantity. Then they have only one
cook to pay for preparing the meals
of many persons. Only one gas BILL
one rent and, though these are all COM
paratively large, it must be remembered
that they go for the living of many
persons.
When it comes to a young couple
Of moderate means starting life to-
gether now they have to consider the
rent of the little fiat in Harlem, the
Bronx or Brooklyn, the gas bill, the
Janitor, the telephone, the servant, per-
haps, the laundry, and then, on top Of
and with all that. outrageous prices for
food. 1t is the few pennies added to
each article of food that puts the little
home Just beyond their means"
In connection with her work for
pure foods, Mrs. Cooley visited some Of
the cheapest restaurants OF the city
and studied the orders given by differ
eut patrons At have actually seen q
man in one of these places" she COM
mented, order a chocolate eclair,
charlotte russo and the Inevitable cup
of coffee and that combination con-
stituted his entire luncheon
The ascending food prices can be
clearly seen in restaurants of this class,
which are patronized largely by clerks
and shop girls and others who are
limited to from 10 TO 20 cents for their
midday meal In the best of these
places. however, with careful selection,
one may secure wholesome food. sucn
as bean SOUP. lamb stew, roast beef
sandwiches, eggs, potatoes, matted milk
or buttermilk, cocoa, graham bread
stewed fruits, and so forth, and so on
indefinitely, at a moderate price Such
foods viii keep ones physical system
IN good condition and furnish one with
fuel enough to work with. Unfortun-
stelv. the majority of the people who
orc accustomed to going TO these res
taurants buy luncheons OF very olL-
ferent type
In speaking Of the quality Of the food
IN cheap restaurants, Mrs. Cooley said;
.sThev naturally buy the least expen-
sive cuts and meats, and at the aver
age table the result OF years OF COLO
storage
people Of small income find 1t al
most impossible TO resist the temptation
TO visit these cheap table d'hotes, just
es they cannot resist getting the cheap
est materials in their own homes; the
foods advertised at bargain sales, over
ripe or under-ripe fruits and vegetables,
grocery products which have STOOD IN
the sun and dirty surroundings, milk
which is few cents cheaper than the
average a quart-though it may be full
of disease germs and poison preserva-
tives{'
AS Mrs. Cooley has studied the pure,
food question and suggested reforms
very carefully in connection with her
work for the Associated Clubs OF Do
nestle Science, she is an authority on
food questions. On the subject of cost
of beef in different grades she said:
.The poor people who buy cheap cuts
of meat pay a much greater percentage
of profit than the wealthy, and low
oriced beef is marked up nearly twice
&C nrch relatively as high priced beef"
WANTS A DIVORCE.
Felicitas Torres de Corrales has filed
sniff for divorce from margarine Cor
rales in the 41st district court