The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-09-25
Dinner DE Luxe at Two Dimes Per
Plate
(By r. T. Patten)


give him free range he will find pre-
cisely what is necessary to make
wholesome diet. Further than that,
IL his digestive system has become
deranged during stall feeding, he will
browse around and find the herbs or
branches necessary to make him well
again. The old pony wouldn't have
any education as to proteins, carbon
hydrates, ETC., but he will have an
instinct which would beat a college
laboratory off the boards. l am not
discounting the value of scientific re-
search. II we insist on living as civ
ilized people in a largely artificial
way we cannot get along without II.
l am only making the point, or try
ing to, that we sometimes go to
good deal of trouble to figure out
things which are unnecessarily ex-
pensive, not especially desirable and
sometimes, withal absolutely harm
full, as to matters of diet.
I am not posing as sage or re-
pository of extraordinary wisdom, but
/ will guarantee any one, with pa
thence to read this thing through, in
formation, easily made use OF, worth
a thousand dollars. In setting this
figure I have in mind that the same
thought would have been worth much
more to me, could have run across
It ten years ago, apd I would pay
a thousand dollars to anybody for
H..f- Df
value of which l again stood in as
serious a need.
used to weigh 200. The first
fifteen pounds got away, somehow.
I don't remember why or just when.
Then I spent summer In MISSISSIPPI
pi which nearly put me under the sod
and left me weighing about a hundred
and half. In recent years, six more
pounds faded away and left me at one
time with a weight of only 144. This,
for a man six feet tall, is undesirable
from an artistic standpoint and indi-
Gates something seriously wrong as
to nutrition. Physicians galore
wrestled with the matter but appar-
entity to no purpose. until one, doubt
less profiting by his study of infant
quarts of milk day and just use
the top half of it. 1 had been using
whole milk by the gallon and, at
times. cream in liberal quantities.
The latter did not work well-had an
excess Of butter fat. The whole
milk raised cain with my alimentary
system otherwise. This modified
milk (secured by syphoning off the
lower half, worked wonders. I gain
ed IA pounds in three months. Felt
very much better and / guess looked
better, altho l don't plan to enter
any beauty contest on the strength OF
this added avoirdupois. Usually the
moral comes at the end of a story,
but | am going to put one In here:
II you are thin, drink modified milk.
Now, don't make the mistake Of
thinking that your case is precisely
like mine. You might want little
more or a little less butter fat and
could secure it by discarding slight
ly more or slightly less than the
lower half of the milk. but this dairy
product, modified by the subtraction
OF some of the lower portion, after the
cream has wandered toward the top,
will work we'll in your digestive sys-
tenn and put fat on your cheeks and
ribs. Moreover it Is wholesome, not
expensive and, with all, can be made
a very attractive diet.
started In to tell about a two
dime dinner. AS usual / lave told
a whole lot that doesn't have much
to. do with the subject and now 1 am
ready to talk about that. II you
wish meal fit for king at mini
mum price you will try some of this
double strength milk with well pre-
pared pop corn. And here goes for
some statistics as to cost:
One pound pop corn on cob, $ 06A
Four quarts of milk at lie, IA
One-half pound butter, 80
Total, $ sou
The above will furnish an ample
meal for four people, giving each
pint of double strength milk and, If
we'll popped, good big pepper full
OF corn. / have not quite met the
boast of my title, 1.-TWO Dimes Per
Plate" but I guess you can get rid
of that quarter of a cent somewhere.
perhaps by cutting down little on
the butter. OF course, you want
some salt but, as five cents will buy
enough of that to last a family
month or two, am going to consider
that 1t does not cost anything.
could eat pop corn and double
strength milk three times a day, but
know such constant diet would
not be good for me. l have been
eating 1t once day for quite time.
however, and it is the most enjoy
able of the three meals. Any family
could we'll make use of it for three
or four meals week.
There is whole lot more which
could be said but this piece is too
long now. In a subsequent article
I am going to discuss the different
kinds of pop corn and methods of
popping It, If you get some corn
that only half pops or. even IL you
have good corn and don't understand
handling it, it does not make either
wholesome food or an attractive diet.
1t would be pretty nice II every Som
erset County family would pitch In and
give this milk and corn diet big