The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-02

1 rice, but they rebel at 1t and cry for potatoes. Bulletins are being issued giving full instructions how to pre- pare rice in southern style, and the taste once cultivated new and per- manent demand for it will be created that will prove an important factor in agricultural statistics.
 The nutritive value of rice is far greater than that of the Irish potato over four times-and it is an inter esting fact, published in bulletin of the United States agricultural depart ment, that the larger part of the hu- man race subsists chiefly on rice
 But so long as those of the well-to- do classes who can afford to indulge in potatoes have them for the princi- pal meal every day some attention should be paid to the economy of cooking them. In no vegetable is there so much waste in preparation, per haps, as in the potato. Every one who ever peeped into kitchen an hour or two before dinnertime knows there is a great deal of waste in par ing, and added to this, according to culinary authority, some cooks soak the potatoes in water after they are pared, which lessens their nutritive strength. Starting to cook them in cold water also contributes to the amount of waste
 Scientifically stated it is this way: "Twice as much nutritive matter is lost if pairing is done before boiling, as there is if it is done after boiling, not figuring the waste in cutting away the potato. The juices of the potato contain S5 per cent of the pro- tein and S5 per cent of the ash, and these substances are easily extracted when the protection of the skin has been removed. A pared potato soaked from three to five hours loses about three times as much of it's mineral matter and seven times as much of it's protein as one that is pared and immediately cooked" Baking and steaming are the most economical methods of cooking po- tatoes when fuel is taken into ac- count, and a properly baked potato cannot be improved upon. But coming back to the subject of rice, after our northern friends get used to it it will | be found on every table. The econ- omy of living will be promoted in marked degree and the south's rice ! crop will have to be largely increased. 1 If the German crown prince should happen to be without any prospects in the Kaiser business at the end of the war, the French government might be lenient enough to let him earn a living showing tourists over the battlefield at verdun
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 icaricaturng President Wilson in loop theatre. MT Roosevelt and Mir. Bryan provide plenty of material for that pur- pose.
 
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 Some motion picture films rent for more than s1Oo day. No wonder the propri- etors of photoplay houses hate to see it rain.
 There are at least two Washington newspaper men who wish they had never heard of Wall street.