The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-02-27
IDEAL MENUS FOR
AMERICAN FAMILIES
''Getting a Meal Is an Art"
States Federal Expert,
DR.. Wiley.
CORRECT LIVING SECRET
AMERICAN WOMEN, HE STATES,
MUST De TAUGHT THAT PREPA-
RATION OF A MEAL is AN ART,
NOT DRUDGERY. .

Chicago, Feb. 26.-Dr. Fl. w. Wiley,
head of the chemistry bureau of the de-
partment of agriculture, while here,
gave out what he considers the ideal
menus for the American family IN
moderate circumstances. His menus
follow:
Breakfast-Cerea (made from natur-
al grains,. Eggs or small chop. Toast
Coffee
Lunch--Thick soup. Three kinds
of vegetables. Small piece of meat, if
desired.
Dinner-Soup. Three vegetables.
Plenty OF meat. Pastry, if it's home
made. Coffee and cheese.
THE three meals have outlined are,
OF course, subject to change" said Dl.
Wiley, las different people require diff
ferent food. My ideal menus, how
ever, are suited to the great majority
of American people.
American women must be made to
understand that the preparation of a
meal is an art, not drudgery. When
this is accomplished. we shall live
both cheaper and better. American
women are too willing to leave cook
ing to domestics.
The preparation of meal is not
only an art; it is fine art. as worthy,
in it's way, as painting and sculpture.
A woman who knows how to cook
we'll, and does cook well, does not de-
mean herself in the least She emo
bles herself and benefits every one
around her: for nothing is more i'm
portant in the evolution of the race
than dietetics.''
lis there any known reason he
was asked. why some persons should
be fat and others thin"
''Oh, yes. There may of course, De
a diseased condition bringing about an
adipose state, but as rule it is due
to the fact that people in sedentary
occupations eat too much fat and
starch and sweets too many potatoes
and too much rice.
Bread and Potatoes for Work.
'Starches and sugars are converted
directly into energy" continued the
doctor. when one is doing manual
labor the energy thus generated is at
once used up. If you want to get a
good days work out of fellow fill him
UP on potatoes and bread. But man
OF sedentary life-a professor or stu
dent or an office man-who eats these
things can't use the energy up fast
enough and it is stored in his body in
the form of fat
do you think Americans eat too
much
Those who live an active outdoor
life do not. 1t is possible the rest of
us may. A man who works with his
head should eat lean meant and
should not be too profuse in his diet"
What is your theory of the high
cost of living:'
We'll, we waste l great deal in the
kitchen. for one thing. The French
people would live we'll on what we
throw away. Another thing. persons
of meager means have too much false
pride. They try to emulate the rich.
A man who invites a friend to dinner
is ashamed to take him to a modern
restaurant He would rather take
him to some other place where the
same meal costs five times as much
do you believe q man can live be-
fittingly on strictly vegetable diet:"
HE can live, of course. But man.
is naturally, an omniverous animal.
Take awsy one-half of his natural food
and you have only half a man. He
loses power in proportion. The En-
glish probably eat more meat than any
other nation-the English and the Ger
mans. And look at them. They are
the greatest colonizers, the most ag-
gressive people in the world
Nearly all persons who profess to
be vegetarians eat milk and eggs
which are just as surely animal food
as a piece of chicken or beefsteak"