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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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the whole 



year, why 

 not keep sweet? 

 No frown ever 

 made a heart 

 glad; no com- 

 plaint ever made 

 a dark day 

 bright; no bitter 



word ever lightened a burden or 

 made a rough road smooth; no 

 grumbling ever introduced sunshine 

 into a home. What the world needs 

 is the resolute step, the look of 

 cheer, the smiling countenance, and 

 the kindly word. Keep sweet! " — 

 Geo. L. Perin. 



Do you remember on one of these pages 

 I made the statement that I feared Uncle 

 Sam was making a mistake in asking us to 

 use honey to release sugar for the soldiers 

 and our allies? In my opinion honey is so 

 much better food than sugar that the sol- 

 diers should have it to enable them to fight 

 with more energy. Evidently some one 

 agrees with me, for I happen to know that a 

 large honey-bottling concern has recently 

 filled an order for one hundred gross of in- 

 dividual bottles of honey for the soldiers; 

 14,400 dainty little bottles of nature's only 

 concentrated sweet are on their way to 

 cheer that many soldiers. 

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At this point I wish to take a little space 

 to correct a slanderous statement made by 

 editor E. R. Eoot on page 940. Dr. Miller 

 called attention to a clipping stating that 

 Herbert Hoover uses honey in his tea. Far 

 V)e it from my intention to criticise a great 

 man for sweetening his drinks with honey 

 or anything else. His digestion is his own. 

 But it did make it hard for me to obey the 

 injunction expressed in the quotation at the 

 head of this page when I read E. R. Root's 

 sweeping statement, in reply, that ' ' the edi- 

 tor is doing the same in his family, and so 

 also is all of Rootville. ' ' Speak for your 

 own familj^, Mr. Editor. To be accurate, 

 there are eight families in Rootville, and 

 four of those families do not use sweet of 

 any description in coffee or tea. Further- 

 more, the grownups of those four families 

 drink coffee regularly at least once a day; 

 and if a member of one of the aforesaid 

 families wanders into the Puerden home 

 Sunday evening and finds the head of the 

 family and his wife partaking of a tete-a- 

 tete lunch accompanied by coffee he is not 

 afraid to accept a cup of Stancy-made cof- 

 fee. Then he goes home and sleeps the un- 

 troubled sleep of the just. But you just try 

 offering a harmless cup of coffee to a member 

 of the families who 

 drink their coffee 

 sweetened. This is a 

 sample of the reply 

 you will call forth, ac- 

 companied by a virtu- 

 ous, dyspeptic look. 



OUR FOOD PAGE 



Stancy Puerden 



3 



January, 1918 



' ' No, thank you. 

 The coffee smells 

 good; but if I 

 should drink it 

 as late as this T 

 shouldn 't get a 

 bit of sleep all 

 night. Indeed, I 

 have had to cut 

 out coffee morn- 

 ings of late and substitute cereal 

 coffee. ' ' Draw your own conclu- 

 sions. However, if you must have 

 your coffee and tea sweetened, honey 

 is probably more wholesome than 

 sugar. It may be well to state that 

 those families in Rootville who drink 

 unsweetened coffee eat more honey 

 in the course of a year than the cof- 

 fee sweeteners; but they give it its own 

 proper and important place in the menu. 

 » * * 



No doubt you have all heard and read 

 many silly and untrue stories against the 

 work of the Food Administration. The 

 country has been flooded with them, as well 

 as stories against the Red Cross and Y. M. C. 

 A. Let me quote a little from a letter sent 

 out by the Food Administration to House- 

 hold editors. " The food situation is today 

 tragically serious, and hunger may imperil 

 a conclusive victory for the Allied Arnues 

 if the people of America do not exert their 

 utmost effort. . . . Untruths have 



been fostered which have done more harm 

 than battalions of German soldiers, because 

 they have prevented this country bringing 

 all its resources to bear against the enemy. 

 The American whose heart is 

 with the flag will back the efforts of the 

 Government, not only by deeds but by every 

 word he utters." 



Perhaps it will help all of us housekeepers 

 to think of ourselves as soldiers enlisted in 

 the Food Administration. We know soldiers 

 in training have to do many hard and dis- 

 agreeable things, and that they fi-equently 

 have to sacrifice comfort and inclination. 

 For instance, a young man who left an office 

 position, at a good salary, is doing his bit 

 shoveling coal on one of our great battle- 

 ships. Another young man in the navy 

 writes he has learned to eat hardtack. The 

 next time you hear some one grumbling at 

 good corn bread on a wheatless day, try of- 

 fering him hard tack. 

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I wonder how many of the Gleanings 

 housekeepers are in the habit of carefully 

 measuring all ingredients called for in rec- 

 ipes. Have you a set of measuring-cups 

 and spoons similar to those illustrated? The 

 two small J L- cups are exact half pints, di- 

 vided into fourths on 

 one side and thirds on 

 the other. The large 

 cup is a quart measure, 

 divided into fourths. 

 The set of measuring- 

 spoons measures accu- 



