The National tribune., 1910-05-12
"FIigh Living" ~

/ that it was first designed. If Secretary
of Agriculture Wilson had expected to
make himself popular and solid by send
ling out a million copies. and the reSolu-
ton passed the House to that effect, he
was disappointed. for 1t bumped up
against obstacles in the Senate, and the
size of the issue was cut down in that
body to 500, 900 copies. It's Very good
cook book. and if the women lwho get
II will only follow its advice cooking of
many thousand women will he decidedly
imnroyed The book doesn't call for
much canned" stuff. If the commit
tee which is searching into the question
of the high price of living will asccr-
tain how much of this is due to the cost
of high" living poured out of tin cans
they will probably get near the root of
the seriousness of the problem. In the
olden times women looked well after
the WAYS of their household, and eyed
with strong disapproval canned toma-
toes and other canned vegetables
bought over the grocery counter. They
were able to can all of these things
themselves. and knew that they We're
placing before the members of their
family good wholesome thlngs when
they opened their own canned products.
They smoked their own hams, dried
their own beef, picked their own pork,
corned their own beef, packed their
own eggs, made their own cheese, raised
and had underground their own wheat
and cornmeaI; the honey they used was
manufa Ctured on their own grounds.
They had their own milk and butter,
and. Furthermore, the daughters of the
house, taught by their mothers, who
were always at their elbow, knew how
to turn these different things into the
very best meals ever set before diner.
All that is changed in these days.
Mother never goes near the kitchen if
she can help herself. Daughter doesn't
know that the kitchen exists. About
everything that goes on the family ta
BILE comes out Of a paper bag or tin
can. The canned stuff may and may
not have been fit to eat when it was
canned. and if it wasn't fit to eat it's all
the same unless il makes somebody
sick. Instead of mother and the girls
learning how to make good biscuit pies
cakes and other cookly accomplish
ments, the bake shop furnishes these
at so much per, and along with them
an ineXpressably filthy contamination of
soiled hands. soiled counters. dusty re-
ceptacies. films of ineffable disease
germs rising from the marching feet in
and out of the market mingling with
the questionable materials of which
they are concocted in the first place.
Ham and beef are boiled and served
over the counters, and have to be
broiled over or fried to kill the mi
crobes in them before they are fit to be
served. The butter is mostly of the
renovated kind, with several genera
tions of microbes crowding therein.
Eggs of the cold-storage vintage, and
the fowls they buy are usually Shiny
with long resting on moldy slabs in cold
vaults undrawn. half picked and
unfit to eat had they just been caught
on the run.
Add to all this the preparing of the
viands by a slipshod servant girl, whose
with the bathtub is only
by her unacquaintapce with
the brush and the fine-tooth comb, who
doesn't know anything about. cooking
and wouldn't learn the art of it if she
had a chance, and is it any wonder that
we complain of the high cost Of living?
After all, as some high official sug-
gested some time ago. are we not COM
planning of the cost of high" living
If women were willing to go back to
first principles and be 'homeke4pers and
the cost of living would
drop one-half. When every woman
wants to wear silk stockings and a silk
petticoat. with waving plumes on her
hats and trained dress and French
heels on the street and who thinks look
ing after the ways of her household
plebeian and prefers clubs of chatter
ing. scandal-talking women to the pratt
tie of her children and the interests of
her husband; who cares more for bridge
than she does for good bread; who
adoreS music of which she doesn't COM
prehend the simplest elements; who
goes into ecstacy over ShakSpere and
couldn't analyZe one of his simplest sem
tences; who wants to ride in an auto in
place of walking, which is more nearly
the size of her husbands purse, you
may be quite sure that the high cost of
living is going to get a lambaSting IN
that home. and If you will just look
around your immediate environments
you will find that four-ffths of the men
who are complaining that dollar won't
go half as far now as it would five
years ago are married to women who
are stretching the buying power CT that
dollar 10 times beyond anything that
was attempted five years ago. There is
no use talking, you can't make 81 900
salary stretch over the ambitions of the
so, 900 woman, and these restrictions
are not meant to apply to women only.
The men are just as deep in the mud
as the women in the mire so far as am
bition is concerned. A man must have
his cigars, he must have his autos, he
must have his clubs and he must have
a thousand and one things that his faith
er would have considered absolutely
immoral to have even thought about.
Ready for Scrap.
It's been a good long time since We
could have any real good scrap with
England, but there is a casus bell right
now if we want to take it up. Advices
received here state that Heard's Island.
in the South Indian Ocean, which was
discovered by Capt Heard, an Ameri-
can, in 1853. was annexed on behalf of
Great Britain on March "a by a party
aboard the Durham whaler Mangora.
A cairn was erected supporting the
union jack, under which the declara-
tion of annexation was signed.
Heard's Island is in latitude about 81
degrees 40 minutes south of the equa-
tor and in longitude about ~ degrees
30 minutes east from Greenwich. 1t is
about 300 miles southeast from Kergue-
len Island and about $500 miles south
east from Cape Town. The island is
and is barren save for a
coarse vegetation resembling cabbage,
and said in former days to have been
efficacious in the treatment of scurvy.
1t lies in the midst of important seal
fisheries. p ~
When we get good and ready to have
our little island back we will just run
up our little American Flag, and Eng
land won't say a word
Two Grand Lodges of Elks have
called off their official sessions in Brook
lyn, n. Y, and Norfolk, Va, and will
hold the union session in this city from
July z6 to 20 inclusive
= "N
The Supreme Court of the United
States held a memorial ,neefipp in hon.