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C, I. K A N T N S IN H K K V \. T H K K 



<|iiik' a liftlc to iiiakr llio pasloboai'd lutxos 

 and do the print in<;-, otc. bi-sidcs tho cost 

 of distriI)utioii all over the land at one 

 tixed ])nee. I believe the biscuit jieople ad- 

 \ertise that there has as \et been no ad- 

 vance in their prices; but the prices wimc 

 fixed in the first place witii ent)usih inariiin 

 so they could keeji one steady price not- 

 \vitlistandii\u- the lluctuations in the wheat 

 market. 



When my Home dej)aitiiient in (i1,kan- 

 i\(iS was started, somethin<i' like 50 years 

 ayo, one ot" the first things 1 did was to ex- 

 periment in regard to the cost of living. I 

 contrasted the big difference between the 

 stutl" grown in your own garden and buy- 

 ing the same in^'ans or glass receptacles at 

 your grocery : and I decided even then, that 

 it was a great waste of money to buy any 

 fonn of food in tin cans if you can possibly 

 avoid it; and when it comes to glass the 

 matter is even worse. Glass is heavy for 

 transportation, and usually costs more than 

 tin. If you can purchase these foods, 

 either in tin or some other kind of con- 

 tainer, so the package may be used over 

 and over again, of course it is an advan- 

 tage. In many places you can get canned 

 fruits in Mason fruit jars that may be 

 used over and over again. Perhaps some 

 of you may come back at me and say, "]\Ir. 

 Koot, how about the Airline honey that is 

 so extensively advertised and sold now in 

 almost every corner grocery?" Well, I am 

 glad I can honestly say in this case, as I 

 iiave just said in regard to the other foods, 

 "Keep some bees yourself — at least enough 

 for your own family consumption. If you 

 can not do this, take your automobile (al- 

 most everybody has an automobile nowa- 

 days) and go and visit some beekeeper and 

 buy enough to last six months or a year, 

 thus saving the grocer's profit and the cost 

 of tin and glass receptacles." Carry out 

 the same idea in regard to everything you 

 have on your table. 



If you have plenty of means, and wish 

 to avoid the cost of expensive help in your 

 kitchen, then perhaps it is well to keep 

 light on getting your stuff at the groceries 

 just as you have been doing. But bear in 

 mind that 1 have no ill will toward the 

 grocei"S. The}' are good friends of ours. 

 Neither have I any ill will toward the man- 

 ufacturers of food products. T am glad 

 they can afford to dump a little sample of 

 parched goods on our porches to let us 

 know how good their things are and what 

 they have accomplished in the way of fur- 

 nishing our daily bread on a moment's no- 

 ice, and ot a cost of only a few pennies or 



a few nickels. If yici, my dear friend, 

 have been wondering how you migfht re- 

 duce tiie "high cost of living" in your own 

 home, just nndvC it your study to follow the 

 suggestions I have given you in the above. 

 Later. — After the above was in type 1 

 found the following clipping in tiie ("le\e- 

 laml Plain Dealer: 



Tlie fanner was called a profiteer ■when he got 

 $•2. "20 a bushel for his wheat. But what about 

 si'lliiiK this same wheat as puffed or popped wheat 

 at .t;?6 for sixty pounds? He was called a proti- 

 t(>er when he got $2 a bushel for corn, but wliat 

 about corn flakes bringing $15 for fifty-six pounds.' 

 He was called a profiteer when he got 35 cents for 

 cotton of which about 4 cents' worth made 75 

 cents' worth of gingham, and his 65-cent wool 

 mounts to $25 when in a manufactured form. 



It seems to intimate that somebody be- 

 sides myself had been thinking along the 

 line of the above. Well, now, as we have 

 both been criticising the puffed wheat — 

 that is, criticising the price, nobody ob- 

 jects, of course, to the quality of the 

 breakfast food — I want to say something 

 in its favor. The nicest "api^le pie" I 

 ever ate, or tasted, was not really apple 

 pie at all. It was apple pie made of yel- 

 low Transparent apples, and puffed 

 wheat, crisped in the oven, for pie crust. 

 It was not only more appetizing but more 

 wholesome, I am sure, than any common 

 apple pie. The sauce Avas flavored with 

 cinnamon, my favorite condiment; and so 

 far as the expense was concerned it was 

 a little cheaper then any apple pie that we 

 get at the restaurants. By the way, I 

 notice that a Cleveland restaurant has been 

 overhauled for charging 15 cents for a 

 sixth part of an apple pie. He paid the 

 baker '.W cents for the pie and then receiv- 

 ed 90 cents for cutting said pie into six 

 pieces. I do not know but nice, clean 

 wheat parched in the oven would do al- 

 most as Avell as the puffed wheat, but it 

 would be somewhat more trouble. 



'^XOT AS YET 'SINSIBLE' OF THE FACT.'' 



Once upon a time a big turtle that had 

 been beheaded was out in front of a res- 

 taurant. A crowd was gathered around to 

 see how long it would live without a head. 

 An Irishman in the crowd settled the ques- 

 tion by remarking, "Oh ! he's dead all right, 

 without any question ; but as yet the cra.\ - 

 thur does not seem to be quite sinsible of 

 the fact." Well, the decapitated turtle re- 

 minds me of John Barleycorn. He is dead 

 all right (praise the Lord), and dead tor 

 excrmore, but some of liis advocates arc like 

 the beheaded turtle not as yet ''sinsible " 

 of the fact. 



