Arizona republican., 1921-04-27
WEDNESDAY MORNING. APRIL 27. 1921.
On the neck of the young man spdrktes aao gem so gracious as en- terprise. -HAFIZ
Better Foods-eetter Homes"

No could have supposed that the opening day of The Republicans Better Foods-Better Homes Week" would bring than five per cent of the population of Phoenix and women and child But there handful of there and a smaller handful children The great audience made almost entirely of of housewifes and those ho expect to become housewives We think 1t is conservative estimate that least twenty-five per of the mature mature womanhood of Phoenix had gathered in the Shrine Auditorium to learn more intrcacies of cookery. There was demonstration of interest that believe could not have been equalled anywhere else in the United States
 It must be taken in account too that the Chau- tauqua session competition and that mental pabuum attracted hundreds of women who had strong secondary interest in the material though not less important subject of better cookery.
 It is accurate and significant phrase than as first are apt to grasp Better Cookng-Better Homes." We do realize what degree the hap phness and integrity of the home depends the food served in it. military srategist said that army its stomachs The happiness of many household has its in the stomachs of its members disorders there produced by improper insufficient food proceed disorders in widen Ing circles which length disrupt the home.
 s-Again from other causes so tenuous become the bonds which hold households together. that they maintained only by the culinary skill of wives That is something that may not have thought of but 1t is within the knowledge of that it is frequently only presence children the family that prevent the frayed matrimonial bond from snapping. We be- leve that it is often good cookery that the purpose.
 And usually that is something that the girl about become wife does think of; neither does the Foung about to become husband. They sn ethereal existence. The love sick not hungry except. according a popular notion, pickles. a desire for which is held to be sign of intense and consuming love. But in that state food the devoted couple be not only unnecessary but posi- lively vulgar. Each will have the other, each all perfection. What else in all the world count?
 Then comes the marriage and disllusion In rose and constant the faults of each other appear and become magnifed The young wife who has learned to boil water properly keep it from scorching is uncharted with the waves rising higher and higher She makes mess the simplest cookery she renders a boiled egg something be avoided a fried egg something to turn away from in disgust A few breakfasts complete the falling away the scales from the husbands eyes. His outraged stomach finds expression harsf and insulting which arouses the young wife to angry recrminaton. There is fatally missing that
 Balm of hurt minds, great natures second Thief nourishersn life's feast"
 The divorce court looms in view.
 The Republican is that in promoting Better Foods-Better Homes Week it is not play Sg into the hands the divorce lawyers. Its re-
 ward will be in the consciousness that it has been the tumble means of making the matrimonial knot a utrfe more secure and preventing in some degree Indigestion in whose train many other evils follow.