Evening star., 1916-03-16
AMERICAN KITCHEN
CRIMES DEPICTED
DR.. Wiley Tells What Is Best
in Food to Preserve
the Health.

Crimes perpetrated against humanity
in the American kitchen were described
and deplored by DIR. Harvey w. Wiley.
speaking this morning on Health ana
Food IDEALS at the second of a series
of Thursday Lenten talks being given
at Rauscher's. under the auspices OF the
Associated Charities.
The people of this country little real
ize the harm they do. according to Or
Wiley. when they ''maltreat their
cereals, removing therefrom some OF
the most important of their elements
which are contained in the bran and in
the germs: peel their potatoes. polish
their rice and look upon salt merely as
a condiment to be used indiscrimtnate-
ly. instead Of a fundamental source OF
needed mineral elements.
The tendency to refinement in bills
of fare is depriving of the essentla
elements of a proper diet" declared Dr.
Wiley, who characterized whole ~heat
who claimed to live mostly on II eN-
cept when invited to a banquet which
il seems shame to waste.
Slowly Learning Better.
The American people are slowly but
surely learning better. however. he
concluded, and are tending to the ideal
diet which contains all the clements
necessary for heat, energy. growth.
alkalinity and acidity, and which is the
most important factor in longevity.
Particularly did the speaker nay the
now happily disappearing school boy
| or girls lunch of cold hot biscuit
/ and A pickle.
william H. Baldwin, who presided
he
small ballroom, called on Mrs Neigh.
| secretary and general manager of
Neighborhood House. to discuss the re-
| lationship between diet and the chill
dren of the people to whom that set
! tlement is such a help. She told how
when she first came to Washington she
saw children given not only conuensed
| milk. but beer and tea in their nursing
| bottles. and later saw these children
either fill premature graves or grow up
| to become problems for doctors. nurses
| and social workers.
Tells of Neighborhood House.
| Mrs. Neigh also told of the model
home which Neighborhood House had
tried to maintain properly on the aver
age pay of an unskilled laborer, S15o
day, and said that this amount had
proven insufficient even with the great
| est care DR. Wiley later stated that he
could, provided the imaginary laborer
| in question would allow him. make that
| $1.5O do the work of SO when properly
| applied. For cent and half, ap-
| proximately." he added, Il can give as
| much real nourishment to a starving
man as the usual charity can give FOR
| q dime"
| Miss Ellen Vinton. representing the
| Housekeepers' Alliance. told of the
| War on Waste week which her or
| GaniZation has planned to begin April
| !. together with its campaign to intro
| duce fireless cookers into the homes
| of the poor for hot-weather use. The
meeting ended in general discussion
| in which virtue in rags in the form
| of whole wheat bread triumphed over
| vice in fine raiment, this part being
| taken by the loaf of whitened flour.
and in which the public records of the
| Jekyll- and Hyde buckwheat cake. the
| well meaning but more less in
| competent slice of rye bread. the proud
but useless specially prepared cereal
| and that merciless villain, the frying
pan. were all laid bare.
| A travelling exhibit of cards and charts
touching on methods for the prevention
| of tuberculosis was a feature of the
| meeting. The subject 70: next Thurs
day is How Can Our Community
| Ideas Become the Common Possession
Of the Citizens of the District