The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-17

first afternoon one was inspired to | thoughts of achievement and a beatic attitude toward life. A few hours after | the first meal all this was changed. And
 the cloud got longer with each meal.
 well knew what would happen if 1
 partook of the food set before me, but courtesy holds the chain that often binds
 the, guests to disillusioning discomfort. The guest, however, can escape in time,
 but what of the family? A bit of study showed the sad effect even a short period
 of the young daughter-infaw's manage
 ment had wrought upon the family. The worst of it was she meant so well and according to her knowledge, she did her best.
 This best of hers was based on
 handed down cooking knowledge. She assumed that what her mother had all
 ways done was the only way and so shut her mind to the new ways developed by real teachers of domestic science. The result was unwise buying to begin with, heavy, greasy cooking next, and finally
 the undoing of years of studied human efficiency making which has been carried on by her predecessor.
 The means to possess the beautiful country home had been acquired under the regime of her husbands mother. The beauties of the place could scarcely be marred but all the possibilities for enjoyment of them had mysteriously fled the family. The father was grad ually being turned from a universally loved optimist into dyspeptic and dreaded pessimist. The husband was
 thing. As is usually the way this crav- ing was leading him to partake of stim- ulants during the day.
 l The children were tiny, fretful and cross because their little bodies were continually demanding building foods which they never got in the proper pro- portion. The only member of that fam l fly who has maintained her poise and 1 efficiency is the sister whose profession 1 takes her away from home. In mothers and grandmother's day {, the average family found it a simple
 and an inexpensive matter to have great quantities of what Professor Mo Collum terms the protecting foods. The supply of milk, butter, eggs, spinach, cabbage, lettuce and other leafy veg I letables was not limited by price. In fact Madam Housewife herself, in the
 majority of cases, saw to the raising of l the vegetables, care of milk, making of butter, and raising of chickens.
 | Now, with monetary restrictions on ] the quantity of these for each house. I hold the wise home maker must give serious thought and planning to the selection of her menus and preparation | of the food served. If you have copy of Mrs. Adams book refer to the selec | tion on selective menus-it will help to combine foods properly. If you have not received your copy write Jean Prescott Adams, care of this paper and she will have a copy sent you.
 This book will help you in preparing foods but the first essential is to buy only foods of the best quality and of guaranteed uniformity. Choose your fresh fruits and vegetables for their soundness and ripeness to get the best flavor and thus have your family get the greatest possible amount of nutri- ment. Flavor you know goes a very long way in helping digestion. Also select your canned goods, from milk,
 meat and fish, to vegetables. jellies,