Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-02-17
COST OF LIVING
MUCH TOO HIGH
Bus it is not Necessary Says Cooking
Expert at Sioux City. Plenty
Of Cheap Dishes to be Had.
PEOPLE NOWADAYS
DEMAND FANCY CUTS MEAT
But Many Women Are Ashamed to
be Seen With Parcels.

Sioux City, Feb. 15.-Well prepar-
ed food is to large degree the es-
sencc of martial happiness, asserts
Mrs. 7. B. Wheelock, of the Boston
Cooking school, who is demonstrat-
ing and giving lectures on domestic
science in this city. Mrs. WheelocK
has taught the art of cooking for
twenty years and has appeared in
nearly every city of prominence in
the United States. For eleven
months she lectured and demonstrate
ed at the Wanamaker store in Phila-
delphia.
Some men marry girls who are
incompetent cooks" said Mrs. Whee-
lock. when a husband comes home
for meal he is entitled to dishes
that are tasty and nourishing. |
know of one man who shortly after
he was married compained to me
about pain in his stomach. He told
me that all he could do to alleviate
the pain was TO take a drink of whis-
ky. although he was not a drinking
man. Poor food was responsible for
his ailment, but he did not know it.
His digestive organs failed, to per-
form their functions because the
meat was raw and bloody and the po-
tatoes so slippery that when han
died with fork or knife they would
slip 10 til floor.
Men will tell their wives when
they leave for their offices in the
morning that they will take their
lunch downtown. Mary, they will
say. I'll not come home this noon.
Will lunch i'm a saloon. This story
applies to thousands of men. Because
of these circumstances many will be-
come drunkards. l know of one in
stance where several women present
ed a small family-the wife was a
poor cook-with a well baked cake.
The husband stayed home last night
for the first time in a week.
Housewives EXtravagant.
Mrs. Wheelock is an opponent Of
the high cost OF living. People of the
present day are too eXtravagant-
they want to live better than their
grandmothers did, she said.
The people nowadays demand
fancy cuts of meat. 1t is only fad
but a very expensive fad. The cost
lest cuts are not always the best.
ECONOMY should be practiced more
by American women. Delectable dish
es can be prepared from leftovers
which some housewives cast away as
refuse. / have proved that a family
of four can have a good meal on Is
cents worth OF meat il it is Favored
we'll with green peppers, macaroni
and other toothsome ingredients
And we do not need meat three times
beans and lentils are very suitable
substitute. being fully as nourishing
and appetizing."
Proper cooking utensils viii go a
long way to solve the cooking prob
lem, Mrs. Wheelock asserted. They
are Just as valuable to the woman as
the profession is to the men, she
said. Proper utensils are savers of
labor and drudgery, and it would be
we'll for every woman to provide her
self with the necessary articles, Mrs.
Wheelock declared.
Should Not Use Phone.
Use of the telephone by the house
wife also was criticised by Mrs.
Wheelock. She contends that when
a woman wants to purchase meats
she would know what she is buying.
Credit systoms and delivery ser
vice should be abolished by the re-
/ taller, in the opinion of Mrs. Whee-
lock.
Prices to the cons umer would be
materially reduced If cash systems
were installed by all retailers and de-
livery, wagons relegated. Our grand
mothers were not averse to carrying
armfuls of packages home from the
stores, but our more modern women
refuse to be seen on the streets with
even small bundles. Proud women
wearing sealskin coats think 1t is a
black mark against their characters
to be seen with a parcel