FIFTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART VI. 559 



You have not the right — I have not the right, to ruin the machinery of 

 our bodies attempting to make brain and body power by putting in it the 

 wrong kind of fuel. Any man who runs an engine and puts in fuel that 

 does not give a good steady fire, will get poor results. If he puts in cobs 

 and shavings he can not do good work. If on the other hand, he puts in 

 big chunks of coal, what then can he do with his machinery. We have no 

 right to feed our engines, the bodies, by putting poor material in our stom- 

 aches and then expecting to get good work out of them. This matter seems 

 worth all the thought we put into it. Some people eat only two meals a day, 

 some only one. I have known people who practically lived their lives by 

 eating only one good meal a day. The Germans eat five times a day and 

 we find, sometimes, they do better work than some of us who eat three, 

 two or one meal a day. 



When you come down to the foundation of the whole thing it simply 

 means that good brains can only be produced by the use of good food. 



If you use your brains to the very best purpose and find out about the facts 

 the scientific men have laid out before us, you will have no trouble in plan- 

 ning your food. 



I believe Americans, as a rule, eat too much. I believe that more people 

 hurt their stomachs by overeating than undereating. 



In this great land of plenty there is not much starving from lack of food, 

 but there is a good deal of starving from overeating. 



Some Qf these days when we know more about it we can plan definitely, 

 but nowadays it takes pretty careful planning to keep yourself, the children, 

 or whoever is within your reach in absolutely perfect health. We have 

 water, and proteid, which is the muscle-forming food, and starch and sugar 

 along with the fats. These with the minerals give all that is necessary in 

 the make up of the body. 



We have minerals for the bones and other hard tissues. One of the 

 great lacks in our food is water. I suppose that not half of you people sit- 

 ting here drink enough water. The physican who takes care of you when 

 you are ill, knows that you do not drink enough water as a rule. The 

 man who feeds cattle knows that unless he gives them plenty of water they 

 will not be able to take care of their food. 



It all comes back to the matter of using brains about food. For a good 

 many years we did not think it necessary to use any brains in this direction, 

 but after all we are coming to feel that as a people we must have better food 

 and that means food planned with more brains. 



HOMEMAKING REQUIRES DEFINITE KNOWLEDGE 



There is a very general feeling throughout our country, among educated 

 people, that homemaking means definite work with definite knowledge. 



In years gone by a girl was supposed to come to that definite knowledge 

 instinctively. At least she was given no special preparation for the definite 

 work which must be guided by knowledge. Today we are questioning in 

 what way that knowledge may be given to the great mass of girls who will, 

 in a few years, be the homemakers of the land. There has been, in the 

 past, feeling that the mother in the home ought to teach the girls in such a 



