Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-01-25
PASS THE CABBAGE. PLEASE.

The porty but humble urnp the bourgeois cabbage the
preeniou potato the socastc onion have all left their
places the outskirts byway of the dinner table and
orng the center where His Majesty Roast Beef
once held undisputed sway.
What revolutions these modern years working The
ory of AngoSaxon kind has rooted in the hale
old English of beef We have considered porerhouse
essential well being the rise of the himself
looked upon chops of constitutional
rights heard here there of vegetaransm but
part regarded dreamy mpractcabo
sort of philosophy derived ouandsh the
But the most practical materoffact movement tins
country supporting itself vegetables alone NJ
cities dozen different have by impulse
put their Defeating procves to stable locked the stable door
away key Men who work eight hard hours
day shops and factories and who thrive by their muscle
feeding and though they had never known
the Whit of frying pam Beginning Cleveland, o. the move
spread Missouri Colorado Maryland Tennessee Con-
neccut illinois, and rumbings are being heard In the
kitchens of Atlanta.
1t may truly be called the bloodless revolution.
of this uniquely interesting development directly
course the exoban price of and in general the
aound increase the of living For several past the
daily necessities going higher and higher Not
til recently however into universal
People understood in indefinite of that they
were paying article of diet five cents
another fifteen twenty-five still Others
but it is difficult for the imagination to interpret the
meaning of a penny dime.
When however pennies dimes kept surgng out
larger housewives and househoder began to look about
them and inquire the cause They
Families that could formerly three meals day
mans weekly began to that they running from
fifty cents to dollar short every Saturday night By drastic
economy they could perhaps reduce the shortage
quarter but the winter months of 1909 and the fuel
bills up, the deficit grew.
People who were compelled to of fixed
salary found themselves standing island
which gathered higher every week Trade unions
discussed the their meetings Congressman realized from
their grocery bills what taking place President Taft him
self noted the situation in the White House arder
thought congress ought begin investigation Several
did likewise College professors fell studying the prob
lem with scholarly vgor womns clubs began
it. people talking of this
of living eagerly than they have talked of anything for the
past ten years.
1t is natural that the investigation should have lighted first
upon constitutes of the popular
of the coss items of appetite In the old days
the jumped the That have been rather
discomfortng performance while it lasted but luckily then
went the and came down again. In the present instance
she has landed the and has stuck there
Governor Harmon of Ohio suggested his to the
legislature the beef might have something do with
Western cattle raisers had declared that they
getting their beeves than they had
years People began that the increase price
within the period between the time the left the ranch and
market basket Whatever might
there of getting IT,
thought several thousand worngmen in Cleveland o. That
stop eating beef.
And they stop plan proved immensely popular
taken up Kansas City, Denver Memphis Baltimore, ST.
Joseph, St Louis and other cities by the
Yesterday the wholesale of beef had fallen fifteen cents
in Cleveland.
Atlanta on the verge joining this popular
Her houekepers certainly keeny interested
than before meaess and predict that before the
thousand appetzg for lettuce salad and
apple will have been discovered We shall doubtless be tell
ing another vegetable version of the old joke
that to the table disguise three times day for
week.
Better dinner of contentment Herewith than
stalled and much strife Such appears be the overwhem
opinion of Americans today Certainly he who the
earth coming into their that say coming
No where this
how the problem will be solved In the meantime pass
around the beans and be satisfied