Evening star., 1932-03-22
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. TRACEFELL.

! living nlaces, Their main appeal Is to
tha eve not to the plain facts of living.
All is order and balance in then-even
the radio must masquerade as mere
table of some definite period.
These pretty rooms are symbols OF
dissatisfied people who are searching
for satisfactionS which they lost son1e-
how in the rush Of life. and which no
doubt many an occupant of cluttered
sitting room OF the OLD perloo khe"
to the full.
when il came to food. good food, the
people who lived. in the absurd" houses
N vesteryear with facades covered with
"pinperbread." and overhangs which
up<foubtedlv threw the whole out OF
balance knew what a fried chicken
ought to taste like and how TO make 1t
taste so.
Homelv bread and butter was one OF
their staples.
And YOU will have to go a long way
now to find anything more tasty or
satisfying. II you are in the right con-
dition for it and have appetite left
which has not been catered TO by the
intriguing of the sense OF caprice lying
somewhere in most people.
Bread and butter. for its greatest ef-
fectiveness, requires milk as an accom-
paniment. Bread and butter and milk
would be the best designation, but the
shorter form has the Sanctity OF years
and millions Of people behind It, there
fore we would not dare to- change 1t,
even if we could.
Bread and butter it shall remain,
then, Just good bread with butter on it,
food for children and strong men, for
old age, for young girls, once called
"fappers," now known as juniors, and
lovely ladies all.
Few people bake their own bread any
more, even in the smaller towns. Thus
they more or less miss the pleasure Of
eating hot bread Like many another
thing supposed to be bad for you" it
was entirely delicious. In the old days
the children we're further inveigled
with bread and butter coated with
sugar.
Perhaps the main practical difficulty
OF making q meal Of slices Of bread
spread with butter is the genuine diff
Guilty of putting cold butter on cold
bread.
1t is here that the hand of woman
wins again
One Of the most comical sights in the
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butter soft slice of bread with hard
butter.
All blessings work two ways, 1t seems,
and modern refrigeration tends to make
butter so firm that 1t refuses 10 spread
at all.
Thus the best the so-called mere
male can do is to break the butter up
into morsels, and apply them one by
one to the top side of slice of bread.
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Always thereafter the bits of butter
are likely to fall off, usually onto the
floor.
And 1t is right here that We pause
to ask question which has been asked
million times before:
WIZ does piece of bread and butter
always land butter-side down when it
slips out Of the hand?
Never once in the course Of years
have we seen slice of bread and but
Ter fall any other way than buttered-
side down.
There seems to be something myste-
rious about it. slightly In favor of the
butter makers and the bakers. Maybe
they train their slices before they send
them out, line them up and say, Nov,
remember! II you fall, fall butter r-side
DOWN."
1t Is interesting to note, on the
scientific side. that a plate of bread
and butter, accompanied by whole milk
gives one real food at the same time it
offers two, We believe, of the essential
vitamins, and not the least of these
the vitamin which helps make the blood
resistant to diseases of the respiratory
tract. - :,
A glass of milk, and a slice Of bread
and butter-yeS, you can go a long,
long way from mothers knee and not
find anything better for you, or any
thing more tasty and filling, if you are
satisfied with the simplicity of one
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