The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-23
When Planning a Meal

1 Do not have too much heavy food at one meal heavy meal should not be | followed by a heavy dessert, but rather | by a light one. and vice versa.
 ! Do not repeat the same flavor in the same meal Example: If you have | tomato soup. do not have tomatoes served in any other way for that meal. i Courses. or at least dishes served at the same meal. should contrast with one another; bland one then a more high ! ly favored one; a hot one, then cold one; a liquid one, then a solid one. For example: A hot main course should be followed by a fresh, crisp salad or | cold dessert; a highly favored soup or boulllon might be followed by a creamed dish of some kind. a bland meat, such as veal with peas.
 Many times sharp contrasts in texture are very desira ble-ice cream and cake, tea and wafers, cheese and crackers, cranberry or acid fruit with fowl. apples , with pork, apples with beef. peas or mint with lamb gooseberries with fowl. Do not repeat too often the same food prepared in the same way For instance, do not have mashed potatoes every day. Prepare them In some other way the second day, and so on. The same food materials may be used more frequently if they are prepared in various ways. - call upon the automobile owner to vote for road bonds. His tire and fuel costs, as before mentioned. are cut in half by good roads. More important still, If he be a city man, as a very large propor- ton of automobile owners are, it brings what he eats to his door at less cost. Good roads have always meant some thing in the way of reducing living costs, but they mean more now than the motor truck has come to stay-and to expand. One function of the motor truck is to re- lieve congestion in the neighborhood of large, cities-a congestion that has in creased during the past several years, and that. if it continues, will tend to run up the cost of living Those are a few of the main reasons why, from the stand point of self interest, the city automo- bile owner should vote for road bond is sues.
 AS MILITARY MEASURE From the standpoint of duty. the mili- cary element probably takes first place. When 1t became necessary two years ago to concentrate great numbers of men in cantonments, it was found that the road ways connecting the cantonments with the surrounding cities were in sense adequate. For the most part new roads had to be constructed. There is always the possibility of another such emer gency, and the only means of insuring faci1e communication is by the construc- llOn or SuTiateu Tpduc oNef WHICH liotuf trucks can operate.
 While the security of the nation in such an emergency might depend upon good roads for military uses, their service to the nation would not be confined to mill tary matters For great portion of the time during the past two years 90 per cent of the railroad capacity of the coun- try was required for military purposes. The transportation of food. fuel and the like had to be accomplished largely by means other than rail. Some hardships were entailed. The motor truck. however. over such roads as were passable, ren- dered excellent service. When the pres ent road building programme is carried out and the total of improved roads is several times larger than at present. the service possibilities of the motor truck will be correspondingly increased and the safety of the nation and the comfort of