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individual for the week. A good allowance of butter, for 

 instance, is a half pound; more than this is wasteful and 

 upsets the balance ration. 



Frying is the most objectionable method of cooking. It 

 renders good food difficult of digestion. 



Do not spend an extra moment in the kitchen. Do not stand 

 over the kettles or wait for things to cook; busy yourself by 

 preparing something for the next meal, thus shortening your 

 time of work. 



Thoughtful and intelligent women in public and private life 

 are, I am quite sure, searching for less elaborate and more 

 simple methods of living. There are numerous pitfalls along 

 the way of eating. An appetite created in a child if allowed to 

 continue leads to intemperance, and intemperance to crime in 

 later life. A simple, well-balanced meal means health. Arti- 

 ficial appetites should never be created or cultivated, and are 

 not, as a rule, except by a mother misled by ignorance, or the 

 careless, indifferent mother who takes particular pains to be 

 kind to her child, and gives it everything it asks for. 



Thousands of lives are sacrificed each year through the lack 

 of knowledge on the part of the mother, and this knowledge, 

 by the way, is not incompatible with the other accomplish- 

 ments. It adds to your power. It teaches you how to be 

 hospitable, and hospitality means home making. It teaches 

 you how to live well on small means, instead of hopelessly 

 wringing your hands and crying out about the high price of 

 food. It teaches you how to keep well and how to build your 

 family. 



Let us insist upon our share of instruction, rather than to 

 accept the present condition as inevitable. Let us get together 

 at once and see that every country schoolhouse is converted 

 into a social center, where our housewives, too old to again 

 enter school, can have, at little cost of time, the necessary 

 instructions to make life worth the living. 



