The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-23
Stresses the
Importance
of Good
Cooking

of his key in the lock of an evening
even the eat takes 20 the cellar.
The other type of husband is a ray
of sunshine in the home. He is ge-
NAL. and kindly. and affectionate, in
terested in what everybody has bee n
doing, full of appreciation and praise
for all that his wife and children dc,
and at his coming every eye bright
ems, and every heart sings for joy
How to change the grouchy hus-
band into the cheerful husband is a
task that millions of women have es-
sayed in vain. They failed because
they worked on the mans heart i'm
stead of his liver, for grumpiness
and ILL tmper are far oftener the re-
suit of dyspepsia than they are of
premeditated meanness.
If women could only appreciate
the effect that the way they are fed
has upon the character and dispc s-
lions of their husbands, and upon
their husbands success. the cooking
schools would be jammed to the
doors with married ladies seeking to
acquire the art that turns a roar
ing lion into a cooling dove that eats
out Ct your hand.
No more would hungry man. after
hard days work, be set down to a
dinner of overdone meat and under
done bread, or else fed messes out of
paper bags that his wife had bought
as she hurried home from her bridge
club or the matinee. All no. Wife
would have the fear Ct his liver be-
fore her eyes, and realize that if she
upset his stomach with indigestible
food that it would make him cross
and irritable, and that he would be
nasty to get along with and that it
would be folly to ask him for money
for new hat.
Napoleon said that an army trav-
eled on it's stomach Sc does every
man. Ninety mine times out of a hun.
bred his wife's housekeeping sets
the measure of mans achievements.
The undernourished, anaemic man
Who never has any good wholesome
food at home lacks the strength and
the courage to undertake a big job,
Also he is the man who breaks de- wn
with nervous prostration by the time
he is middle aged. 1t Is the men
whose wives feed them well and
wisely who are able to carry on I'M
til threescore and ten.
1t would be interesting to know
how many men have had their ca
reers wrecked by bad breakfasts. The
man who sits down to a cup of luke
warm, poisonous coffee, and a sad
slice of burnt toast and an egg
whose character is not above re-
proach. starts the day in a mood that
makes him see everything with jaun-
diced eyes. He Is so ptssimistic that
he would turn down the most gilt
edged proposition on earth He is so
irritable that he is ready to insult his
best client, and snap the head eff
his biggest customer. and he is
full or glooms that everybody avoids
him as II he had the leprosy.
Just because he had a mean break
fast. and was hungry and nervous
and cross, has made many man
make the wrong decision in business,
and slam the dotr of fortune in his
face, and throw up a job that he
splnt the balance of his life re-
As for keeping a husbands love.
no other way is so potent as to keep
him healthy. and well cared for, and
1t is only the neurotic
who is on a still hunt for new sem
satit ms and thrills.
If you will observe closely, you
will find that all the affinities and
soul mates have a lean and hungry
own fireside who finds better din
ner there than he does anywhere
else. Nor Is there any other such dis
courager of philanderings as that
stuffy feeling you have after eating
that makes you want to sit dc wn and
browse instead of chasing chickens.
All OF which brings us back to the
original point, which is that the
wives as the joys Of their livers, said
something