Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1922-06-07
Dear M. B. Friends:

| Dear M. B. Friends
The Postscript Editor" of the
Woman's Home Companion has, in
the June number, solved problem
which it may be has puzzled good
| many, and l pass the result on to
| you. You will want to read 1t more
than once; try reading it aloud the
| second time, and it will remind you,
| as it did me, of the old "twine that
untwisteth, untwisteth the twist" a
reading exercise some of you will re-
| member.
THE vITAMINE MYSTERY SOLVED.
There was still another thing last
| month of which we must talk some
more. You will remember how fused
we were about the pronunciation of
the word vitamine. Was it vit-to-
rhyme with-sit amene; or vit-to-
rhyme with sit amyne; or vit-to
rhyme with sight amene; or vit-to-
rhyme with sight amyne? We looked
in all the dictionaries in the office, and
when we got through we didn't know
any more about it than Jute Pember-'
shaw knew about the tariff.
Since last month we've seen the
very latest Webster, and what do you
think is the pronunciation it prefers?
Why, it chops up the word so that the
second syllable is tam, and it claps the
whole accent right on that TAM You
remember how we fell into verse about
it last month-we shall have to do it
again--cold prose can't do it justice.
We hope there'll never be Il food short
age such as we picture; we had to
have that rhyme.
When the harvest fails and there's lit
tie to eat
And the land is oppressed by famine,
Wen miss the bread, and Wen miss
the meat,
But mainly we'll miss the vitamine!
At present there's soup and there's fish
and roast,
And every morning there's ham-'n'-
Eggs, and liver bacon and toast
We swallow 'em for the vitamine
But how our spiritS will fall that day
The food sharps closely examine
Our fare with a guinea pigs help, and
I'VE can't find a single vitamine!
| Dear Aunt Madge and NJ. B. Sisters:
In one of the June magazines, in an
| article on Food" in the Eat and Be
| Healthy" series, there is a short poem
| which I am sure you will all enjoy, 1t
| is as follows:
"Methuselah ate what he found on his
plate,
| And never as people do now,
Did he note the amount of the calories
| He ate it because it was chow.
| He wasn't disturbed, as at dinner he
Destroying a roast or a pie,
To think it was lacking in granular
| Or couple of vitamines shy.
He cheerfully chewed every species of
food,
| Untroubled by worries or fears
Lest his health might be hurt by some
fancy dessert,
And he lived over nine hundred
| years."
|
| spite of the opinion of this up-to- date
| poet who sings of Methuselah and his
| diet, there must be added to the
knowledge of cooking, an understand
| ing of nutrition to balance it. Though
we all agree that Methuselah did live
to ripe old age. yet perhaps had he
| counted his Galleries and eaten a
yeast cake now and then, just for a
jazzy diversion he might have reached
the thousand year limit
In the village graded schools the
Red Cross school nurse discovered
| some forty children who We're ten
pounds or more underweight. A nutri-
ton class was established. this group
of boys and girls coming to the lunch
room at recess both forenoon and
afternoon and drinking a half pint of
milk each recess. Many of them dur
ing the past two months have gained
five or six pounds. The mothers have
been asked to cooperate by having
the children get plenty of sleep in
well-ventilated rooms. and also by
serving more vegetables with the
regular meals. Some of these young
sters did not like milk and had not
been drinking any previous to the be-
ginning of this class, but by joining
with the group, watching the charts
which show gain Cor loss) each week
and by the added inducement of suck
ing the milk through a straw direct
from the bottle, they became inter
ested, and as result are among those
who are gaining the most rapidly
In the last American the recipe for
spring tonic and the mention of the
various herbs which, as Aunt Madge
added are being raised somewhere, re-
minded me of Gene Stratton Porter's
books. Have any of you read what
think is her latest one, Her Fathers
Daughter" 1t is a wonderful story OF
an exceptional girl combined with a
charming description of the great va
riety OF fora to be found in California
n rvy