The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-04

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 agitated or of wider popular
 A interest than the undoubted- ly increased cost of living. Tvery housewife and housekeeper in this city, as in every other throughout the United States, is exercised all her schemes for making the decreased purchasing power of the dollar meet growing demands on it.
 A household page is not the place for political or sociological discussion as to the reasons for this increase. Nor Is 1t proper here to argue about the rights or wrongs of the packers or whether they are charging too much for meat. The truth remains that 1neat costs more than it used to, and this for the housekeeper whose allow ance has not grown any larger pre- sents the grawest problem.
 Housakeepers, as 8 matter Of fact, are. to a certain extent, to blame for the exorbitant prices, now charged for meat. Nine out of ten mothers of and WastefuI. A thrifty French house hold can live for a week, and live well, on the food that an. American cook will throw away in two days. This is not g theory but an actual condi- ton
 country do their buying absolutely by rofa. Some years ago when period of abnormal prosperity seemed to pre- vail everybody started in to live on very high, need1essly high scale. Even clerks and mechanics were eat ing their meat three times a day and only the most expensive cuts at that. This extravagance has become such habit that most housewives now seem to think that the steak and rib pieces of beef are the only parts of the ani- mal that can be bought.
 T4T-Sx eyrrIf Hasa 6z0 3v7nx +a y has been mathematica11y calculated that eighty per cent of the demand in meat is for twenty per cent. Of the carcase. Consequently pretty nearly animal is totally wasted, thrown away. Now this would not be quite so absurd a condition if the choice pieces contained more nourishment than the less expensive ones. They do not: there is just sas much nutri- ment in the briskets as in the sirloin and just as pa1atabIe dishes can be made from 1t by the woman who will make a stuiy of cooking. But it stands to reason that, when, butchers every carcase they buy from the nacker that they have to charge
 respondingly high price for the koice cuts for which there is all the kdemand Moreover, with such large proportion wasted, the number of ami
  America is raised beyond all reason.
 Serious as this problem actually is now, it is threatening to become much mora so unless the American house keeper acquires more common sense. As lt is, the sheep and cattle ranches of the country are barely able to fur n1sh sufficient animals to meet the 1 groH1ng demand. The demand, in deed, is growing much faster than the supply and presently there will come & time when the people of this coun- try will simply have to eat the DOT tions of the carcase which their fas- tf7fousness now causes to be abso- 1 lutely wasted.
 This, then, is the first thing that the housewife must do in order to make her stationary allowance meet the increasing cost of living. She must feed her family on the equally | good, out less expensive cuts of meat. |
 Ehe second thing she must do is to study food values and inquire into 1 the mode of living of other countries. | A tremendous lot of fustian and vain glorious brags have been spoken and | written about Flow fine it is that | Americans live so much better than