Evening star., 1932-02-13
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES +. TRACEWELL.

will give the consumer a sense of physi-
cal wellbeing, which is what one means
by the phrase "a sense Of fullness.
The same sense may be acquired, how
ever. by less milk when bread, in some
form, is added. The scientists say that
an approximation to the ideal diet
might be had by experimenting this
standard OF bread and milk with fresh
vegetables and fruits, This is the So
called "lacto-vegetable" diet.
Being 'fussy' about what one eats
Is merely being sensible about it. No
automobile owner would regard himself
as being f1nicky when he selected the
fuel and oil for his car. but unfortu-
nately all too many human beings seem
10 ieel that a similar Use of the mind
IN selection of fuel for ones own God
given engine is entirely wrong, or at
least rather cranky"
Common sense. however, is never
cranky. And certainly its use cannot
De wrong. 1t is only when common
sense, trying line of attack. refuses
10 ADMIT failure and 60 on to another
line OF attack that this excellent basic
thought OF mankind goes astray.
This Is all that certain spokesmen
for orthodox methods of healing mean
When they advise the general public
10 stop experimenting" with food fads
ana fancies. They can have no real
grievance against the average man of
ordinary intelligence who uses his head
a bit. That's what doctors do.
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Millions of mothers all over this great
land didn't need to be food scientists
to sit their children down to bowls of
bread and milk for supper They
! thought it was good for them" and
they were right.
III many cases the bowls are not bowls
at all, but simply glasses or tumblers
| The technique of eating bread and milk
| out OF tumbler is one which needs to
De learned. Just cramming bread into
the milk won't do
one may eat 1t that way, of course.
that bread tand especially crackers)
needs to be we'll chewed before being
swallowed, This Is the requirement, but
when wet with milk it is seldom OBJ
served. The substitute. therefore, is to
| get the bread thoroughly soaked by the
milk before it is swallowed
To achieve this seemingly small OBJ
! jective, but in reality a large one. in
the art of eating bread and milk the
| bread must be crumbled up very fine
and pushed down to the bottom of the
| glass with spoon
| This process is kept up until abso-
| lutely no more bread can be put in
In order to do this job pr perry some
space must be left in the glass for the
bread-that is the glass must not be
filled to the brim.
! Nor should eating begin at once This
is requirement commonly overlooked
especially by children The milk should
be served ice ccld but be permitted to
warm up just bit The bread in soak
ing up the milk helps in this warming
process. This is according to the laws
of common sense as well as of physics
A Slight wait, too helps in the process.
The proper integration of the milk
and the bread brought about by this
process gives the whole an entirely diff
ferent flavor from bread crumbled
hastily and in large pieces into milk
and the dish eaten voraciously.
BY using the proper method the eater
will find that the bread gets tastier and
tastier the farther down into the tum-
bier he goes The last two or three
spoonfuls. just as the excess milk has
practically run out, will be found to be
the most delicious of all.
What more could any one ask? IN
stead of being good, as Oscar Wilde
said of cigarette because it leaves one
dissatisfied, bread and milk is good be-
| cause it satisfies.