FARMERS' MONTHLY OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY 



HOME MAKING 



A RADIO HEALTHGRAM | 



Broadcast from KYH (Keep Your Health) 



(Directions: Use any wave length 

 suited to your age. If you fade out, lose 

 your breath easily, or sleep poorly, your 

 wave length is wrong. You need to rest 

 your health dial.) 



"Good evening, friends. I hope you 

 are feeling fine and have lots of pep. If 

 not, you need to tune in with sound 

 health rules, for the human body is like 

 a radio set. We must be properly equip- 

 ped and adjusted all the time; otherwise 

 our apparatus works poorly and all we 

 hear is static. Here are seven helpful 

 rules to observe: 



1. Stand upright, with your chin in, 

 your chest out, and up, and your 

 stomach in. 



2. Keep your battery working well. 

 Take care of your heart. Don't let it 

 get short circuited by rheumatism or 



any other infection. 

 8. Don't shut yourself in an air-tight 

 cabinet. Tune in with the oxygen 

 outdoors. Keep your windows open. 



4. Spread out your antennae. Swing 

 your arms and legs in the air every 

 day. 



5. Keep your loud speaker clean. Use a 

 tooth brush at least twice a day, and 

 go at least once a year to your dentist. 



6. Keep your tubes in good order. Don't 

 abuse your digestive tract or let it 

 get clogged up. Eat wisely. Drink 

 plenty of water. 



7. Finally have an all-over inspection 

 often enough to prevent trouble. 

 Have a health examination by your 

 physician each year." 



amounts of meat overwork the kidneys, 

 as they must excrete the waste products 

 from lean meat. If too much meat is 

 eaten, it sometimes lies in the intestinal 

 tract and putrifies, causing constipation, 

 and auto-intoxication or self poisoning. 



People suffering from kidney troubles, 

 constipation, or rheumatism should limit 

 the amount of meat eaten. Meat is also 

 acid forming in the blood and tissues, and 

 should be eaten in moderation by persons 

 who have a tendency toward acidosis or 

 acid blood. Vegetables, fruits, and milk 

 counteract the acid formed by meat, and 

 so where meat is eaten, these other foods 

 should be used in abundance also. 



SHALL I EAT MEAT? 



"Is meat a good food?" a home maker 

 asked just recently. "I think my hus- 

 band eats too much. Would he not be 

 better off without it?" 



While we believe in the use of plenty 

 of vegetables in the diet, and recommend 

 two daily, we also believe that meat is a 

 valuable food if not used too often. Meat 

 once a day is a safe rule for most per- 

 sons. This does not include bacon, which 

 is a fat. Lean meat is a muscle build- 

 ing food, and if some of the other muscle 

 building foods as eggs, fish, shellfish, 

 cheese, dried peas or beans, are substitut- 

 ed, it is not necessai'y to eat meat once a 

 day. Meat is a good food for several 

 reasons — it is easy to prepare, is liked by 

 most people, is stimulating to the ap- 

 petite and to the flow of the digestive 

 juices, and is generally well digested. Of 

 course it is an expensive food, unless one 

 uses many of the cheaper cuts. If eaten 

 in excess, especially by children, it spoils 

 the appetite for milk and some of the 

 other very necessary foods. Large 



I'rohleniN Confronting the Honieniaker 



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Is there a Definite Way to Tell How 



High to Have a Sink? 



It is hard to tell you definitely just 

 how high your sink should be. It de- 

 pends somewhat on the length of your 

 arms. A safe rule to follow is to have 

 the sink placed high enough so that when 

 the worker is standing erect, the palms 

 of the hands may rest on the floor of 

 the sink. There is a suggestive table of 

 heights of sinks. This table suggests 

 that for a person 5 feet 9 inches tall, 

 the distance from the floor to the base 

 of the sink should be thirty-four inches. 

 Assuming that the sink is 4 inches deep, 

 the upper edge then would be 38 inches 

 from the floor. We will be glad to send 

 you a sheet on heights of table, sinks, 

 etc., if you write for it. 

 Should the Home Be Run on Budget? 



What do we mean by a budget? It 

 means more than keeping accounts, more 

 than figuring up to see that the total 

 amount expended is not greater than the 

 total income. You all know Dickens' 

 Micawber who was always "waiting for 

 something to turn up." "My other piece 

 of advice, Cooperfield, you know. An- 

 nual income 20 pounds, annual expendi- 

 ture nineteen six, result happiness. An- 

 nual income 20 pounds, annual expendi- 

 ture twenty pounds ought and six, result 

 misery." Now don't all of you make 

 plans for spending? You may work 

 it out very simply with reference to a 

 few big items. For example, the mother 

 may say, "This year I can't have a new 

 spring coat though I surely would like it. 

 Alice will be going to college in the fall 

 and needs a whole new outfit. And we 

 just must reshingle the barn this sum- 

 I mer. We can't afford to feed moldy hay 

 to our accredited herd." Or father may 

 say, "Well, if we exchange our Ford for 

 j an Essex this summer we can't have the 

 new screened porch off the kitchen that 

 we talked about building. But I believe 

 we will all get more pleasure out of the 

 Essex this year, especially since we have 



promised to take the children to see 

 Niagara Falls. And next year we will 

 build the porch." Now a budget is an 

 application of these same principles to 

 all of our spending. Often the reason 

 we can't have both the coat and the new 

 roof for the bam, is that we have spent 

 too much on some of the smaller items. 

 The food bill may be higher than is nec- 

 essary, perhaps because we use too ex- 

 pensive cuts of meat, or have not 

 bothered with a garden. The electric 

 light bills may be higher than they 

 should be, because we have not been 

 careful to turn out the lights when the 

 room was not in use. The high school 

 son may have had more new clothes than 

 he really needed, but which he coveted 

 because "All the other fellows have 

 them." In a family, if a successful plan 

 for spending is to be worked out, every 

 member of the family should cooperate 

 in working out the plan. Why .shouldn't 

 Alice and John know about what is the 

 lea.st profit the farm can reasonably be 

 counted to make this year, or what salary 

 dad gets? What are the big items of 

 expenditure that must be met? Always 

 there is rent or taxes and upkeep, always 

 there is food to be bought and a certain 

 minimum for clothing. After these bare 

 essentials are provided for, there are the 

 other wants for which one wishes to 

 make provision. There are the maga- 

 zines, books and music : the life insurance 

 or cooperative bank stock one wishes to 

 purchase: the church contribution, the 

 new davenport, the radio set, or the rug 

 for the living room, the music lessons for 

 the children. Wouldn't we be much more 

 apt to be able to have these cultural 

 wants satisfied if plans were irade to 

 include them? To many people, making 

 a budget suggests careful accounting for 

 every penny, it suggests meticulous 

 figuring of percentages, long columns of 

 figures to add. This is unfortunate. It 

 really isn't essential to be able to account 

 for every five cents, if some of it has gone 

 into the intellectual and spiritual de- 

 velopment of the family, or if it has all 

 gone to providing for bare necessities. 

 And of course if we are to make progress 

 in wise spending, year by year, we need 

 to keep some records that will show us 

 where we have fallen down, where we 

 have made gains. By all means run the 

 home on a budget, make a place for 

 spending. But don't forget it should be 

 a family plan. It is not just for the 

 purpose of balancing out-go and income, 

 it is to help us to get the best values 

 possible from the income. Judicious 

 planning of expenditures means express- 

 ing our whole philosophy of life in weigh- 

 ing and comparing values and alloting 

 to each item what we think it is worth to 

 us. Life is a question of choices. If we 

 have this, we can't have that. If child- 



