The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1943-01-14

spot all day long at a lathe, gets
no exercise, and is even more set
than ever against anything except
broiled meat, coffee, and plenty Of
biscuits or fried potatoes.
Separate Meals Unsatisfactory.
81 dislike the idea of giving the
man Of the house one kind of meal
and the children, my mother and
myself another. OF course I could
put what he likes before Charles
every night, serving the rest of us
plenty of the green food, cheese
dishes, salads, fruit pastries with
which we American women are fill
ing up gaps in our bills-of-fare. But
I hate to do it, and it makes me
mad to see other women in the
market buying lamb shoulders, beef
tongue, brains, pigs feet, sausages,
fish-everything that the limited
budget suggests, while I go on pric-
ing roast beef and turkey. A big
turkey ought to give us three meals;
roast, stew, and a thick soup, but
Charles only eats it once. A pot
roast, when we were first married,
was the basis of five meals, but not
now! Has any other woman" Mar
tha's letter ends, lever written you
of this predicament, and if she did
what did you say?"
Charles now ought to prove his
patriotism by setting a good ex-
ample of wartime adaptability to
his children. Let him lunch tomor-
row on a glass of milk and a single
small sandwich, and then come
home and settle down to clean his
plate of frankfurters scalloped in
Spanish macaroni, creamed cab
bage, corn bread, sliced oranges and
oatmeal cookies. Tomorrow let him
lunch the same way, and show his
appetite for dinner of lamb stew,
baked sweets, mashed yellow turnip
and apple pie.
He may find-indeed, he will find,
that the balanced rations are full
Of good f1avors, that he feels better
afterward, and that when Dad
praises Mothers management and
cooking the atmosphere at the din
ner table is infinitely pleasanter than
it has been. All this nonsense about
always hating boiled buildings"
and never having been able to
touch anything with celery in it."
ought to be swept away now, be-
fore the realities of the struggle in
which we all are engaged.
Careful Preparations Necessary.
But for one thing, Martha, have
the vegetables well-drained and we'll
seasoned and piping hot. Have the
less expensive cuts of meat care
fully cooked; tough stew or a
watery mince are enough to set any,
one against stews and minces for
life. Put hot crisp triangles of but
tered toast around humble dishes:
garnish the Eggs Florentine with
chopped bacon; make Charles help
ings Of the hated vegetables very
light, to begin with. Sometimes,
especially with children, a too
heaped plate will destroy appetite,
and tiny portions will be eagerly
eaten from dolls dishes, to the third
and fourth helping.
Your husband is doing combining,
nervous work these days; he comes
home tired. When that same thing
happened to my father, a country
banker, more than 40 years ago, my
mother gave hic civ uocifaro,,c chill
dren their dinners at six o'clock.
But husbands and wives must re.
member that we live in tremendous
times. Everyone has to be more
plant, more adaptable, more willing
to meet changed conditions. That is
as much the task of patriotism as
is shouldering rifle and sailing
away overseas in the defense Of lib
erty.