Evening star., 1932-03-22

Bread and butter is another uniyer-
sally popular dish which has not re-
ceived the public attention it deserves
We do not mean bread with butter on
it as q mere aid to q full meal but
bread and butter as q complete dinner
In itself.
There can be little doubt that the
idea Of courses has been much over
done
Why should q human being be re-
quired, as If by an unwritten law. to
eat three, four, half a dozen different
dishes at meal when one or two will
be sufficient?
Here mankind might take a lesson
from the animals which are content
to stick to one or two edibles. not only
day after day, but for their entire life
times.
Mankind is obsessed by the idea of
painting the lily. as Shakespeare put it
Human beings. seldom content with
what is, want to create something which
is not.
Our modern use of super" shows this
plainly enough.
Nothing is held to deserve first rank
any more unless it Is labeled super
something or other.
If the standard of engines has been
100 horsepower the first engine of $50
horsepower will be called a super
engine"
Maybe humanity needs such verbal
trickery to spur it on to more and
greater effort.
In the matter of eating man has for
centuries been the victim of his own
mind
Primarily he needs no sauce but good
culinary inventions. and gone to vast
appetite. but he has sought out many
hope that he would be able to eat more
than he ought
The result is that men and women
everywhere are seeking to reduce, which
is just another way of saying that they
are trying to get rid of something which
they ought <nevr to have encumbered
themselves with, in the first place, and
which they need not have saddled upon
their anatomies. in the second place, If
they had remained true to their in
herent call for food.
Yet it must be admitted that excess
fat is not always the result Of too
hearty eating. In this, as in all mat
ters relating to the physical nature,
what is one mans meat IS another
mans poison. There are many reasons
for putting on weight, including that
of advancing years; certain diseases
manifest themselves in avoirdupois.
Bread-and-butter comes down to us
of the cities with all the weight of the
great country districts behind It,
Make no mistake about it-those folks
did and do know how TO eat.
They may put it all on the table at
once and permit you to reach for it"
but they know what is good and, above
all, they know how to prepare it.
There are many city residents who
think longingly of fried chicken they
ate long ago
Do they grow chickens as tender as
that any more?
Occasionally cne finds a fat hen
which strikes the palate as being in the
royal line of succession. 1t has O GER
tain taste to it which brings before the
eyes the imaginative pictures of small
towns, nestled amid great elms,. or of
farm houses, set on hills, backed by
barns and outhouSes.
Those pictures recall the days before
living was spoiled by interior decora-
ton" and all the long list of interest
ing fads and fancieS which tend to
make lie at once more picturesque and
more disconcerting.
There Is no questioning the beau
Of the modern living room, done" py
q capable young woman who has
studied the subject and is backed by
sufficient cash to put her ideas into
effect.
Yet many such rooms, lovely though
they are TO the eye, fail to give the
impression Of real human beings living
therein.
They are show places, primarily, not