Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-25
MRS. WILSON GIVES RULES
FOR PLANNING OF MEALS
FlaUor, Form Combinations and AnracUeness Of Food Are
& Al Important Considerations-A Sample Menu
BY MRS. NJ. A. WILSON

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MODERN conditions today tend to
lv1 rob the family Of the real love Of
home and Of good, substantial cooking.
The housewife is quite anxious to avoid
duties which she considers tiresome
and laborious, but she IL most willing
to deck herself out in clothing so sheer
that one does not need to imagine how
many bones she has; they are all evil
IDENTIFY on display, as it were.
Our good. stanch, dependable mothers
Of the nation are following the styles
set by the grisettes Of Paris. Se shades
Of night, how the dear colonial danes of
faces beamed with happiness and pride
as they directed daughter Polly to set
the sponge in the evening for the NOR
rows bread making; she who gave
hand In turning the cloth in the dycins
vat. while directing Billie about the
quantity Of water TO put in the bleach
ing tub. How would they view the
modern housewife?
Madame Of the twentieth century,
you are missing the most valuable and
exquisite pleasure of life. Gone are
the DAYS when the real housewife prided
herself on her ability for cake making.
Today she prefers cakes which come
In q box.
Yet IL Is upon the love of home and
home cooked foods that the actual foun-
dations of our great nation denend for
its msndhood and womanhood. II Is this
love of and for the home that mellows
the tie that binds between man and
wife. Well known Investigators claim
that with the waning Of the love of
home duties the mills Of divorce courts
begin to grind out their enormous grist.
The woman who cannot cook is like
the artist who cannot paint and yet
hires other artists to work for him and
still expects to earn a fine reputation
as q master Of his profession. No
woman can expect to have the reputa
ton OF making a splendid home and
q good housewife IL she depends upon
the maid or the delicatessen shop for
food to feed the family. 1t is the
housewife-oh. how I like to hear this
good old fashioned word who does the
actual work in the homeland not her
social standing, that gains for her the
enviable reputation Of being a good
woman.
1t matters not if she is a social
leader. if she fails TO keep the home
happy. clean and tidy and to give the
family good, wholesome. home cooke ed
food. she fails in her duty as a true
woman, and fraudulently evades her
part Of the contract.
Cooking Is a Fine Art
Among the many fine arts of the ma
tons, cooking, or the compounding of
various foods to build bodies and keep
them in fine physical condition, is an
art indeed. To one who has a limited
purse today this art can be made very
beautiful. il the housewife will but uti-
lie the modern appliances and meth
DDS Of today in an intelligent manner.
All the simple dignity OF labor, il
put into the food. will enrich the fam
ily q hundredfold. 1t will give them
Q certain power that they will be un-
able to obtain in any other way. So
ciety at large is weak nondescript
thing without the real home behind il :
Quite recently. during series of lee
lures in different parts of the country,
the fact that presented itself TO me
most plainly was the physical break
down Of the sedentary workingman from
forty three to fifty years Of age. Some .
times the doctor will call il intestinal or
stomach trouble. again it may be liver,
hioHtSs OF Hedrt out whenever IL may
BE- the trouble starts with a digestive
disturbance and then follows a period
ti more or less physical suffering. The
patients sometimes show jaundiced
condition, others have an ashen gray
pallor with bleary eyes that denote Sc
rious intestinal condition. Sometimes
there is mental disturbance. After a
short time the patient recuperates and
then a little while later there is a
second attack, Perhaps in six months
or year we are very much astounded
to hear that Mr.. Blank is dead.
Physicians willingly admit that food
is a contributory factor to this trouble,
for IL you stop to realize it we are
only as physically fit as the food we
put iuto or bodies; hence il the food
Is OF poor quality and wrongly bal.
anced or Cvcr-rich in elements that
cause the kidneys and liver to become