Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-15
HANDBOOKS FOR
THE HOUSEWIFE
Directions for Reducing the High
Cost of Living and a Guide
for Brides

Lenna Frances Cooper, director OF the
Battle Creek Sanitarium School of Home
economics, holds out an attractive pros-l
pect to those who follow her advice. She
has written a book on How TO Cut Food
Costs" In the preface of which she says
that those who follow her instructions can
reduce their food bills one-fourth or one
third. She gives the bill of fare which
was supplied to party of six women In
Chicago in March at an average cost per
capita of twenty-threo cents day. This
Is followed by n list of recipes of low-cost
dishes. 1t is worthy of note that no meat
was served. Miss Cooper says that meat
Is too expensive for ordinary use, as the
same food value can be obtained in other
forms much moro cheaply. II meat is to
be used It should be chiefly for flavoring
vegetables or grain foods. The author has
given particular attention TO what she calls
balanced ration--that is, n ration which
Will supply the necessary nourlshment for
all parts OF the body. She gives u table
containing groups of muscle building foods,
bone builders, blood builders, and the like.
II Is an excellent guidebooll for those who
wish to live chiefly on vegetables and
grains.
Frances Cooper, Il. s, ,Battle' creek. Mich' hH !:
The Good Health Publishing Company.
Until the Government, or some other more
potent force, brings down tho price Of food
every housewife will be interested in any
theory or practice which will enable her
to feed her family for the sum of money
which can be used for food. Alice Gitchell
Kirk who has been lecturing on home
economies for years, has put the substance
of her lectures in a book. Her advice Is
not intended for the family o. the working
man on a small income, but for the families
OF the wcll-to-do, who are accustomed to
| dinners of four or five courses. Her reci-
| pes provide for the use of Barbecue jel-
| lies and luyures of that kind. The audi
| ence which she addresses will find her book
| most helpful and instructive.
| PRACTICAL FOOD ECONOMY. BY Alice Glitch
ell Kirk. Boston: Little, Brown Co. Sl.1.
| The first year of n brides life is about
| as critical as the baby's first year The
| little white hearse carries away altogether
| too many infants TO tho inhospitable grave
yard. The dead body of domestic bliss is
not so mercifully concealed. Bliss need not
| have died IL the young wife had known a
| little more about her job when she under
| took it. Many life-savers have been put or
| the market, some In the form of advice &c
young wives and others as conventional coof
| books 1t has remained for two younf
| women to produce a novel domestic pro
phylactic in the form OF tho story of tho
first twelve months of the married life o
a young couple. interspersed with forma
and informal descriptions of the means used
by the husband and wife to make 1t sue
cessful. The book Is really guide to hap
piness for the Just married 1t begins with
| the entrance Of the bride and bridegroom
| into their new home and the preparation O.
their first meal, dainty affair Of creamec
| tuna, vegetables, fruit and hot chocolate
Then come the first dinner. the first guest