Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-03
Homemakers' Problems

"School has started, and the ever
lasting lunch question looms up, -
was the wall Of a mother of many.
The thought arose in my mind that
it is not simply the question or
lunches, but three healthful meals
every day in the year, not only for
children, but grown people. l often
think of a man who is on govern
ment, work. He said that nobody
but the Yanderer knows the incapacl1
ty Of the average home to turn out
normal human beings. There are
thousands of homes, north and south,
east and west, that seem. prosper
GUS and have moderate incomes,
that are ill-equipped for the great
work Of feeding the family. He said
that fat mules, fine COWS and portly
porkers should seem a guarantee for
well balanced meals for the family,
but lis not. This mans work. de.
mands close observation, and he said
that the family that scurried all over
the neighborhood for things proved
to him that there was not the same
forethought for the home comfort as
for a well-filled barn.
I have forgotten how many times
he has taught mothers OF famll!es
to make good corn bread. But ne
says the home demonstration agents
have helped wonderfully.
I suppose many of you think L
am daffy on the subject OF ralslns
and nuts. Both are foods that shoulo
be in every home as literally as
meat and the families using them
can prove their worth. Impover1sh-
ed blood can be pleasantly built up
by nuts and raisins instead or so
much meat and medicine. A mother
complained about her children eat
ing so much nut bread and raisins,
and we all know some children,
some grown, who seem like animals
and do not think they have had
plenty until filled to repletion. See
a doctor, the abnormal appetite may
be from lack Of assimilation, or 9TH
er intestinal trouble. I IF that can
not be proved, train the child to curb
it's appetite. To want to eat all in
sight is one form of selfishness, and
If the meal is begun, with substan-
tial food and the child not allowed
to eat sweets or pickles until the
meal is finished by all the family
there will be change after a while
Tor nobody in health can sit long
and see others eat without '1earn-
Ing the habit t'But he will starye
before he will taste his breakfast. +"
says one who piles sugar and butter
on biscuits for her spoiled boy. "Keen
MIN under your eyes until dinner
and see him eat," was the answer bv
a wise mother. s-N' CO. ~ -'--' : -
81 have, and not bite of dinner
till the pie "He knew you would
give in" was the answer, "a whole
day of fasting would be good for his
soul as well as his body"
The mother was called to the home
Of her mother and that boy had to
eat what his aunt's children had.
Oatmeal and milk started them off,
steWed apples, not sweet enough to
kill the apple flavor, was given with
his biscuits but not a bite OF 1t TIL
the cereal was eaten. He could have
the fruit in his cereal and often raj
sins are cooked with cream Of wheat
or oatmeal. Scrambled egg on shred
ded wheat biscuits that have been
split and ruin in the oven to warm
make a nice breakfast dish. Don't
let your family eat the same thing
everlastingly; children eat what their
parents do, as a general rule, but
sometimes it takes coaxing and @irm-
ness to make them eat things that
are healthful. I spoke to mother
about her anenic looking boy and
she told me that he could not be in
duced to eat vegetables. When he
was learning to eat he heard her
tell that as something unusual and
he kept it up. I have seen that boy