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a mvat deal of food, not only by drinking too much that is 

 very hurtful but a great many of us eat too much. "We don't 

 think exactly that this is hurtful, but I think it is, and perhaps as 

 hurtful as too much drinking. This waste can be easily avoided 

 by a little method, but the kind of waste of food I would allude to 

 i> that in our kitchens. There science begins to step in. I see here 

 at number of ladies who have come to this room evidently 

 taking an interest in science teaching. If they were to begin with 

 the science of chemistry as applied to the kitchen there is a good 

 dual of scope for it to be displayed there. A friend of mine who 

 took a philosophical view of things presented his niece on her 

 marriage, not with ornaments, but with a cookery book, and wrote 

 inside this inscription, " Kissing don't last, but cookery do." This 

 I thought was a very suggestive present, because, however much 

 we may admire the other sex and we shall always and must 

 admire them, yet if the dinner is well served, if the bills at the end 

 of the week or month are not excessive, it adds very materially to 

 our happiness. 



This can be brought about in a great measure by a little science 

 in the culinary department. For instance there is almost as much 

 nourishment in the bone as in the meat attached to it, and yet in 

 many households I may say in the great run of households the 

 bones are thrown away, whereas they would form material for 

 excellent soup such as is found in Scotland and in Ireland, and 

 also in France in the form of pot-au-feu. In the French house- 

 hold there is always a pot boiling by the side of the stove, and 

 whatever is to spare is put into that pot, and strange to say the 

 result is not at all unpalatable, as I can testify, having partaken of 

 it. There is I say in this country, in the preparation of food, 

 great waste, which by a little science, a little method and 

 prudence, could be greatly ameliorated. 



"We then come to another form of waste that of personal energy. 

 We find men who are quite ready to do something go to the hunt, 

 to the play, undertake all sorts of mental and bodily exercise, but 

 they don't take any interest in those things which can be turned to 

 profitable account. Instead of reading trashy novels, it would be 

 far more profitable to read books of history and elementary books 

 of science. You would recur to the reading which you left 

 interested in those subjects, again and again, and it would 



