Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-29

abundance variety fraction of what it costs
you buy from day to day.
.aDer bag living" as DR.. Corbett indeed.
a fundamental cause of present distress. and to
learn how and what to buy is our real cost
90 living nroblem If you are typical paper bag
bousekeeper this evenings meal you Will probably
b,v can of green peas for about 20 cents and some
haIf-ripe tomatoes from South Carolina for quarter
Thus YOU have spent the price of meal for two not
altogether satisfactory vegetables containing little
nourisbment But if you providence for which
the ant is famous, would provide from your own
cellar such dishes creamed carrots. buttered pars-
nps picked beets, and cold slaw that cost you out
few cents in the early fall
of course if you live in apartment the storage
question is difficult one. have neither cellar
nor hack ward In this connection, DR.. Corbett
believes there is fortune awaiting the man who
will build apartment each bavng in the base
ment cold storage plant in which each tenant will
have his own locker for keeping provisions.
If you have not cellar, you easily make in
the back yard and putting roof with cellar door
u Dr Corbett SAYS that if you have neighbors you
can trust very best way to keep your winter
vegetables bury them in pile of damp sand in
the back yard notable that nearly all the animals
which the storing instinct. such as squirrels
pack rats woodchucks and ants store their provender
underground. where it keeps perfectly
little reversion to primitive type seems to be
what we need. civilization has made Of
living artificial that the excellent primitive instinct
to prepare for the coming of winter has atrophed-
bthey ourselves in the hands Of the retailer
who blithely makessa large per cent
After the vegetables that will keep. naturally
those which must be preserved And here the
same is At most you put a few jelies
jams; you might have put great Quantities
of fruits and vegetables Even though had hired
help, it would have been great saving. And when it
drying fruits and vegetables, the art has
almost been lost. Who for example, dry their own
squash pumpkin for winter use? And yet it is
and profitable. Few modern city jewellers ever
dried Yet if will boil the
minutes scrape off the corn and dry it in the
oven, you will a vegetable that will keep all
winter, better than most canned Then,
you may put up string beans in brine, and make
sauerkrau There is getting around the fact: If
had little diligence forethought in the fall,
you would have your entire winter supply OF
vegetables. the Christmas drive the high cost
living could shake well-stocked fortress.
There is one other form in which you may soon be
get excellent vegetables low That is
the desscated form In France buy for about
20 cents a cake of dessicated vegetables and meat
stock sufficient to make gallon of vegetable stew.
Nearly all vegetables put out dried form IN
Europe They cannot afford to ship all the
country do. And Europe war is scarcely
paying much for it's food the United States g.
Now two firms have started making dried and
dessicated vegetables in the United large
French concern is said be looking field. Dr.
Corbett had in his office a large of dessicated
spinach. This product something like tea and is
delightfully."- fragrant. 1t at such tempera-
that all of the vegetables are
kept intact and when cooked distinguished
from the fresh
But these things are of the future Meantime pre-
paredness is the solution of the problem
And many a true word has been spoken by mis-
take