Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-10
FOOD AND THRIFT IN THE HOME
FOOD AND HEALTH
BY WINIFRED STUART GIBBS.
Food Specialist.

Did you see the likelike little play
called THE First Year," If you did,
you will remember that the young
couple agreed on one point. In spite
of the task of becoming adjusted to
each other, they were unanimous in
feeling that the best thing about the
first year of married life was that the
second year would follow it!
What are some of the ways in which
the young wife can make the first
year comfortable? Certainly, one is
by taking care of both her own and
her husbands food. Let her look first
to her own nutrition. 1t is only by
putting herself into the best possible
trim she can help her husband stand
up to whatever the first year deals
out to him.
Her own state of nutrition then will
depend on what she has had to eat as
girl. If she has already learned the
a ,b,cs of nutrition, then all will be
more or less plain sailing. / am think
ing now, however, of the unfortunate
young woman who has not had such
instruction. 1t may be because of the
fact that she has lived rather cere-
moniously and that the servants have
done everything for her. It may be
because her home conditions have been
crowded and that she has found sys-
tematic study impossible. On the
other hand, it may not be either of
these, but something equally deplor-
able, namely, plain Indifference.
So let Mrs. Housekeeper make few
resolutions. Let her resolve to eat the
food that will give her all the energy
she needs during the active hours
that she is doing her own houseWork.
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cereal and a main dish with buttered
toast or rolls and cream with her cof-
fee. Her luncheon should have a hot
cooked vegetable dish or a cheese dish
with buttered rolls and a dessert of
fruit with an occasional addition of
cake. Her dinner should begin with
soup, if she has not had it for luncheon
and should include a moderate serving
of meat with two vegetables and a
salad, besides potatoes, more buttered
rolls and a custard or fruit or frozen
dessert.
Now for Mr.. Housekeeper's dietary.
There need be few if any changes
beyond the one of giving him larger
portions of food than his wife would
care for. l purposely began with Mrs.
Housekeeper's own diet because it is
only by keeping herself in trim that
Stlc Will nave CIedI Uedu anu rested
body to cope with the family problem
as a whole.
So let young Mr. Housekeeper and
Mrs. Housekeeper think of the re-
sponsibility of correct eating as being
one of the most important items on
the program of the first year. Let
them both firmly resolve not to have
an excess of tea or coffee. to cultivate
a taste for fresh vegetables, to have
stored or steWed or dried or canned
fruit, according to the season, at least
twice day and to give crisp green
salads a permanent place on the
menus of the first year.
Understand me, / am not trying to
go to an extreme about this. l do not
claim that every crisis, whether it be
emotional or financial, can be solved
by following this diet. On the other
hand, am quite serious when say
that any one who understands the
principles of nutrition will agree on
this point. namely, that properly fed
persons have a far greater chance
for sympathetic understanding, for
consideration and, in short,
for happiness, than do those who eat
in haphazard or ill-advised fashion
(Copyright. 1927