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pie for lemon, so that nothing except a little flour, 

 coffee and spices would represent cash expenditure in 

 the preparation of these three meals. Of course they 

 are capable of almost infinite variation. 



I can not refrain from giving a glimpse of the goats 

 and the bees, since milk and honey are important fea- 

 tures of the menu, as they figure in Mr. Hartranft's 

 philosophy. 



"Back East, in the village where I grew up, we had 

 the herd boy, who came in summer and took our cow 

 to the pasture. It will be so with our Swiss Toggen- 

 burg goats in the foothills. In our town we have not 

 enough of the high breeds to employ a herder yet, but 

 it will come, and Nellie will go to the wild lands with 

 the neighbors' goats and come back at evening to her 

 accustomed stall. On this line we already have the 

 bee factor who manages our hives on shares, keeps 

 the bees in good health, and to-day he brought over 

 300 pounds of fine honey. If you like honey you con- 

 sider sugar a poor substitute in coffee and in baking 

 and cooking. Did the Mission Fathers have sugar? 

 Is not sugar only a part of the careless habit of run- 

 ning to the grocery store and buying dinner from tin 

 cans?" 



He runs joyously on: 



"Since getting my hands into the honey business I 

 feel so stuck up that I am going to send East and get 

 a couple of those rustic-looking straw hives that you 

 see in the pictures of English gardens — those thatched- 

 roof affairs. Any Southern Californian who does not 

 have honey when all of these flowers are abloom, is the 

 one who is stung. He is living a counterfeit life in the 



