The Washington herald., 1913-08-10
Kansas Farmers Fine Chicken
Dinners to Be Displaced by
Light Foods to Give Recre-
alton to Housewives and
Digestive Organs, Too.

Every Sunday is going to be Mothers
Day out in Kansas. The Kansas mans
habit Of making Sunday a day of res:
is about to cost him his big Sunday aIn-
ner. for mother is hearing from all sides
that she, too. should rest as much as
possible on that day. She is told that
the custom and physical requirement
that make it profitable for man to rest
also should apply to her and to rest also
| should apply to her and to the stomachs
Of the entire family.
This doctrine is being spread by 90
mestic science teachers. who urge that
the big Sunday dinners be banished along
with the hard biscuit and underdone
meat
The campaign was started a year ago
at the University of Kansas and has
gained the support of every high school
! and college with domestic science
courses. The campaign is based on two
propositions:
Why not give the housewife a nttl.
rest?
Why not rest the inner man also.
A fine, hot chicken dinner with III
the "trimmins' is something to ccn-
jure with on Sunday. The man Of the
home has crawled out of bed late. loased
around all morning reading the papers.
talking with neighbors and resting. May
be he went to church But all that tirle
when he was In church or loafing about
the house some one was getting that
meal ready.
IL IL Mothers Busy Day.
Mother had started planning the meal
about Friday and had seen to all the
purchases, 30 there could be no disap-
pointments. While the family was eat
ing breakfast mother started the -dirner
by getting the foods prepared for cook
ing and she worked as fast as she could
up to about seven minutes Of church
time and then she hustled into her best
dress and away to church.
When she gets back from church she
hurries into the hot, stuffy kitchen and
works for an hour or two getting the
meal actually ready to eat On Sunday
mother works as hard. or harder. than on
any other day Of the week. except wash
day.
After eating that fine meal. an hour
or two after the regular monday meal
time, Mr.. Man gees over to the couch
or into the hammock and takes q nap
OF about an hour. or maybe reads the
Sunday papers or the magazines. Along
about the middle Of the afternoon mother
and the girls come In from washing the
dishes and pots and pans necessary In
the preparation Of the big Sunday dinner.
But the girls who attend the domestic
science schools are being taught how to
dodge this uneven scheme. The girls
who are going to get married can begin
on fances at once and educate them
away from the Sunday dinner habit. and
those who are staying at home can ease
up on the big dinner little at time.
The stsmach's side.
Then there ID the hygiene aspect. With
q big Sunday dinner neatly every ono
overloads the stomach. The meal Is eaten
from one to two hours after the regular
meal time. The stomach il overworked
for several hours, and then there Is sell
dom Sunday evening lunch and Monday
morning the stomach Is just little out or
/. "kelter," and everyone wonders why.
In the domestic science textbooks, writ
ten by the Agricultural College. State
University and State Normal School in
structors appears the following:
Simpler meals for sunday would even
up matters. They would give the entire
family. also the servants. q rest. and
they would not be 'bade to take either.
Most people eat too much. 1t would be