The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-10-01
Perplexing Problems
What to Eat and Where to Find En-
joyment in the Process


What to eat and where to eat is
problem in these days Of high prices.
Does the great American public eat
/ too much? On all sides now for some
months past one hears complaints OF
after having eaten at such and such
place-leaving hungry. Not that
hunger hurts particularly, but the COM
lbination of high prices and little food
drives the diner away On the othe;
hand, there is the servant question,
which is forcing many people to live
at hotels and restaurants.
Some specialists say eat little, others
| say eat much; some learned men adj
/ wise but a light lunch for those who
toll, others advise a substantial NEAR
with half-hour's rest afterward, while
| still others say only 10 mouthfuls,
-chewing each morsel 3S times. How
ever, when the whistle blows or the
dinner bell rings or the gong sounds
the great American public, old and
young, or thin and fat, engage in that
great art of feeding the face" When.
where and how much, well, that de-
ponds upon circumstances such as how
close is payday or if one is. saving up
for a new suit or hat or perhaps on
that ticklish question: Is there cook
in the kitchen? Speaking of cooks.
here is an interesting story:
Anybody standing at the right spot
at the right moment in the big Union
station in Washington one night might
have seen representative Ben Johnson
of Kentucky, performing an odd chore,
runs story in the New York Tribune.
1t wouldn't have looked SO funny
if Johnson were not so tall and of
such dignified appearance. He stood
by the big gate where most of the
passengers are coming from train
and every few moments remarked in
a tone of authority, to nobody in par
lticular:
Fright this way, Mandy; I'll take
care of you"
Now, there wasn't anybody named
Mandy there, you understand, and
Everybody wondered why Congress
man should be standing there saying
over and over again.
Fright this way, Mandy; I'll take
care of YOU"
What sense was there to man do
ling such a thing as that? After he
had said it many times, Johnson went
away, but in couple of hours he
was back again, repeating the same
line with the same calm dignity as
before.
People were puzzled.
Yet it was all simple enough.
The Johnsons had sent to Kentucky
flor cook. They knew her name, but
that was all; they didn't even know
flor sure what train would bring her.
But, according to reports, she was
wonderful cook who could play cult
mary selections on gas stove just
by ear, producing Southern dishes of
rare quality and fragrance. She was
too good cook to lose and she wal
not accustomed to finding street ed.
dresses in strange cities.
And that was the reason why the
Idignifed Congressman went to all the
trains and cried out. every time he
|saw an able-bodied colored woman:
Fright this way, Mandy; I'll taks
care of you"
Girls and women who formerly were
employed as domestics during the war
times sought out other lines, now re.
fuse to return to their old employment.
Unlike the American housewife, the
French have not yet taken for grant
/ ed the general use of electric and gas
equipment, washing machines, patent
kitchen cabinets and all the rest Of
the labor-savers that give advertisers
the courage to print pretty pictures
of the young bride in lace apron
getting dinner to the music Of phono.
graph, while reading book in the
breeze of IAN electric fan.