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secretary has been occupied in making records and looking 

 after many details of the meetings, and a great many friends 

 attending were not given an opportunity to become members 

 or pay the annual dues. To remedy this evil two tellers were 

 appointed by the chair who quietly passed among the audi- 

 ence and gave everyone an opportunity to become members. 

 This resulted in about 40 new members and the payment of 

 dues by a much larger number than usual. This practice 

 should be continued. 



Pres. Clark then introduced Miss Haddocks of Foxboro, 

 who gave the following lecture : 



APPLES FOR FOOD AND HEALTH 



Miss Mildred Maddocks, Former Culinary Editor of Good 

 Housekeeping 



The cost of living is a pertinent question. For centuries 

 the housewife has struggled alone with her individual prob- 

 lem. Today it is an issue for the trained economist as well 

 as the housekeeper ; this grave question of demand and sup- 

 ply; of food materials, whose production has not kept pace 

 with the increasing numbers of people demanding to be sup- 

 plied ; and the rise in prices, which has been the result, in 

 part, of this lack of production. 



Doubtless there are grave faults of trust and tariff, but 

 a third factor should not be forgotten; the extravagancies 

 and increasing extravagance of the American people. A re- 

 cent writer has pithily parodied, "Of the three grave faults: 

 trusts, tariff and extravagance, the greatest of these is ex- 

 travagance." 



Yes, the cost and increasing cost of food is important. 

 But it is of vastly more importance to the housekeeper and 

 her family that she have a knowledge of foods and food val- 

 ues which shall make her in part independent of the foods 

 which soar. 



It is a pitiful fact that the increased cost of living falls 

 most heavily upon those who of necessity have shorn their 

 diet of all save the simple necessities. The table luxuries of 

 the wealthy are cheaper today than ever before. But flour, 

 milk, sugar, and eggs if fresh, are luxuries now to many. A 

 moment's thought, will show, I believe, that a better know- 



