The Washington times., 1919-10-10

~ 70 food-any more than any
NJ woman-no matter how pref
= ty-can be attractive unless,
f O addition to other qualities, it has
variety. Ny belief is that many
( housewives are hopelessly in a rut.
4 They serve the same things made in
I the same way over and over again
tuntiI everyone in the house loses
. appetite for them and comes 70 the
4 feeling that eve don't live very
( well, do weT"
\ Sunrise IS the element in things
THAT makes life interestiug-or sup
4 tportabIe-and nowhere may that be
30 appropriately applied as to food.
IL q man knows what he's going TO
eat just BY remembering that it's
Monday or Tuesday, or whatever
I6ay Of the week il may be, he may
+ well be forgiven a rebelliOus wish
THAT he could eat anywhere but at
home II only. for this Just once"
At the best life is just the same
ithiug after the same thing and a
( ireputedly All-Wise Providence
hasn't provided US with a very
great variety Of things, espe-
clally at this season Of the year,
when week BY week, the selection OF
.
and smaller. and again and again
the grocer tells us 'the season for
that has gone by
\ And Just because it Is difficult
and calls for quite q bit Of inge-
nuity, that ought to be ali the
Igreater reason for women eudeav-
torlug to vary the family meals as
much as possible and as frequently
as they can inject the element Of
asurprise" into the family menu.
Vury rhe OEd standby.
IN additioh to the family favor
ites-which an families have
and which each one always well
icomes-why not try 70 serve a diff
'fereut pudding or a differently pre-
pared meat dish at least once a
week? And even if the family does
hike some particular dish particu-
larly wen, why have the same one
so frequently that they lose their
relish for #?
(. why net. instead Of having about
the same things every week, have a {
INHERENT selection Of things every
month2 Instead Of having apple pie
livery Friday, have pie some otner
day and have II a different kind Of
bic from the one before.
. AS one Of my men friends loves
- say slanEily to women. use
Tour bean. woman, use your bean"
bean being translated into Eng
lish as brain Many disdainful
sisters who pound a typewriter or
take stenoEraphiC dictaton think
it does not require much bean to
r1n a house and family, but I, who
am not the least bit domestiCated
but paradoEicailv love a Well-Or-
dered home, know that 90 takes
real brains just 10 plan the meals
Ter a family and that the reason
that task is so badly done IN the
majority OF instances is that too
Few women apply brains 20 the
bob.
II a woman would put half the
taste and originality into the Sc
lection and arrangement Of a salad
las she does in her millinery, there
might be more husbands home on
time to dinner instead Of telephone
.ealls that they are detained
downtown."
D0u't he PeHslnlIBiic.
It's SHY to think that domesticity
must be greasy and uninteresting.
Everyone, even the most bachy
.bachelsr and tho most haughty
bachelor girl has to eat.
which reminds me that two OF
.the best-ordered households with
the best cooked meals in Washlng-
ten belong, respectively. to two
'bahheior meu who make q home for
themselves and to one bachelor girl.
lThose three people apply the same
brains and ingenuity TO the house