The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-31
HOME HEALTH CLUB
edited by DR.. David H. Reeder,
Chicago)

edited by DR.. David H. Reeder,
Chicago.)
Are you helping? It is staring at
us from the pages of every daily,
weekly and monthly newspaper and
magazine, this question of food. To
world shortage in production has
been added the. deliberate destruction
of war. The people of America have
reveled in abundance for many years.
We have educated the working pro-
ducing people up to the idea that
there Is always an abundance of food.
Frequently the price is sent upward by
manipulation, but the supply is al
ways there, why economic?
Carefully gathered facts show. that
in the city Of Chicago alone fully l.
100000 pounds Of food goes into the
garbage cans daily. Instead of an as
set in the way of feed for poultry or
pigs it is a liability and costs several
thousands of dollars each day in or
der to haw1 away and destroy it. On
the farms the waste from kitchen is
practically nothing as that which is
not eaten at the table when freshly
served is given to the chickens and
pigs thus it intimately comes back to
the table.
Three-fourths Of a pound of food
for each person in the large cities is
the average amount of food that has
been actually wasted, destroyed at
an expense to the taxpayers. Are you
making any effort to save food?
Thousands Of people in Europe are
starving to death while we throw
away the precious food that would
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few ways in which you can supply the
necessary sustenance, for your daily
needs and be much better off physic-
ally than you were before.
When preparing radishes for the
table, wash them very thoroughly and
leave about one-inch of the top on the
root. Eat all of it. There is an add
ed flavor and a special benefit, in the
tender top that you do not get in the
root. It will be more easily digested
and helps to furnish the necessary
bulk. In preparing raw young on
! ions leave at least one-third OF the
| top on the onion and eat all of 1t. Do
not use any finely bolted white-flour
but demand the finely ground whole
wheat flour and if you cannot get
that, use corn meal.
At the present time there is strike
on in Chicago among the employers
of the big commercial bakeries. 1t is
said that they make and sell over one
million 1oaves of white bread daily. If
this strike forces housewives to go
back to the o1d-fashioned method of
| baking the bread for her family the
! strike will be the greatest blessing
that has come to Chicago for many
years. I advise every family to have
small hand power mill in which
may be ground wheat, corn, rye or
barley near and that the bread Tor
at least two of the daily meals be
made from this meal. The health
of the family will be greatly improv-
ed and the cost of bread greatly re-
duced You can make your own GER
cal breakfast food for less than one
fourth what you pay for that sold In
packages. After you have used the
grinder for a few weeks try grinding
up a pound of popped or parched
corn and eat it with cream and SUI
gar the same as you have eaten toast
ed corn flakes. You will not only
find 1t delicious but the cost is SO
small that you will readily understand
why the big cereal manufacturers
have become multi-millionaires.
| Here is a simple and safe remedy
|
municated by T. Mark Howell of Lon
don to the British Medical Journal
for July. ''Peel the cloves OF garlic
cut them into thin slices and wear
them Under the soles of the feet be-
tween two pairs of socks (if placed
next the skin the pressure produced
by walking is apt to cause irritation-)
The garlic can usually be smelt in
the breath within half an hour. after
the slices have begun to be worn ane
the whoop and spasm usually disap.
pear within 4S hours. The garlic
i should be worn for a week or ter
days longer, according to the severit,
of the case Among the French Can
adams onions are used in exactly the
same way. Garlic NAL also be ad
ninistered by eating it as a form o.
bread sauce, made by chopping VI
the peeled cloves, boiling them IL
milk and mixing them with breat
crumbs.
CLUB NOTES
will gladly answer all inquiries
for information on health subject
from readers of this publication i
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