The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-09-03

Are you interested in learning how
to cut the cost of living, how to do
away with patent medicines and how
to prepare the most delicious fruits
and vegetables SO they will keep at
any temperature, in any light for all
time and retain all of their natural
color, taste and texture
A. H. Benson and some Cook county
rural school girls will tell you how to
do them.
United States Department of Agricul-
ture and is giving demonstrations of
cold pack canning and lectures on
the food supply of the country and
how to conserve it.
THE American people are the most
wasteful and unthrifty in the world"
said Mr.. Benson. From one-third to
one-half of our food products is wasted
annually. Plainly, the children as we'll
as the parents need instruction in
thrift and economy. What l am demon
strating teaches them how to turn in
to profit the vegetables that go to rot
in their gardens and the delicious
windfall fruits that rot back into the
ground. Illinois orchards are carpeted
with those fruits now, yet Chicago
boys and girls cannot afford to eat
apples.
The Americans are the greatest
meal-eating people in the world, and
in eighteen years the cost of living
has doubled, for three reasons, name
ly: Because of the wasted food, be-
cause of the service we require
through the markets before our food
reaches us, and, thirdly, because the
American people have not learned how
successfully to can the by-products or
surplus of their farms or gardens
when the markets refuse to give them
decent price.
''In short, we must learn to do in
the back yard. kitchen and farm what
the big packing concerns do-turn
side products into net profits.
Eliminate Medicine.
Americans consume more patent
medicine laxatives than any other
nationality in the world and American
wives are the poorest vegetable cooks
of any in the civilized world. And
am an optimist, too.
$50 your big job is to show teach.
ers how to unlock the doors of the
peoples hearts by giving them bal
anced rations, showing them how Ito
obtain d SulIlSlcuL 1OOO supply WlIh1u
the reach of their incomes, and teach
ing them to make their diet on fruits
and vegetables supplemented by meat
and not on meat with an occasional
fruit or vegetable.
"All that can be accomplished by
a knowledge of the correct method
of conserving fruits and vegetables
and that knowledge serves the further
purpose of providing for the lunches
of the rural school boy and girl and
bridging the gap that has existed SO
long between the school and the
home"
The "cold pack" method Of canning,
as briefly described by Mr.. Benson,
consists of putting the articles into
the cans or jars cold, and then heating
them, instead of cooking or heating
them first.
I'VE have only one period of sterili-
cation by this method and the fruit or
vegetable will keep through the life
with it's original color. flavor and tex
ture unchanged" said Mr. Benson.
THE red-cheeked apple or the rosy
checked peach will be found the same
at all times, no matter ito what lights |
or conditions they are subjected.
"And any child can do the work.
which is proved by the fact that most 7
Of what is shown at the demonstra-
tons will be done by children"