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Th acond ommandment is this: 



"THOU SHALT NOT NAG." 



I am surprised that the clapping was done by the gentlemen. [Ap- 

 plause.] Nagging is a hahit that is formed by both men and women. It 

 is an unconscious habit, perhaps, but it goes on and gets larger and greater, 

 and there is no one that is more unfortunate than the one who has formed 

 this habit of nagging. 



The third commandment is: 



"THOU SHALT NOT WOEEY." 



Both men and women worry, but particularly the woman is more apt 

 to worry about the financial affairs and other affairs concerning the home 

 than the man. You know that worry grows and grows. You can worry 

 harder on the third day than you could on the first. It does not pay to 

 worry. 



The fourth commandment is this: 



"THOTT SHALT KNOW FOOD VALUES." 



Every woman today should know how to feed her family scientifically 

 and right. The woman who does not know food values may be sure that 

 the handwriting upon her wall reads: "Weighed in the balance and found 

 wanting." Every woman today can get much information from the state 

 university, from the United States Department of Agriculture and from 

 women's magazines, so she should know all that there is to know today 

 about foods. You cannot be today like the woman in the settlement who 

 told me, after a long demonstration, where I had thought I had driven 

 my point home very carfully and accurately and had convinced the people 

 about the right kind of foods to eat, "Oh, it is all right for you food 

 specialists to come here in the settlements and try to teach us to eat 

 what we should eat, but you know I would ruther eat what I would ruther." 

 [Laughter.] 



People have peculiar ideas about food. In this town there is a man that 

 has a peculiar idea about food, because I asked him this year if he had 

 put up as much sauer kraut as last year. He said, "No, we didn't put 

 up very much this year. We only have two barrels in the basement in 

 case of illness in the family." [Laughter.] 



That was his idea of a good food for the sick, and there are many 

 women who have just the same idea about food. No woman can afford to 

 be careless about food, because the mental and spiritual lives in her home 

 depend upon the food that the family eat three times a day. Food is 

 changing. Food ideas are changing. Food standards are changing. Take 

 for instance this new thing that we have been reading about in all the 

 magazines and that we hear about from the platform, the vitamines 

 that are found in foods. It was my great pleasure a few months ago to 

 have a long talk with Dr. Funk, the man who isolated and named vitamines. 

 It is not Mr. McCullom, as so many think. Dr. Funk is the man who did 

 the original work and Dr. McCullom finished and carried it on. Dr. Funk 

 said, "We did not know very much about these mysterious vitamines. 

 They have always existed in foods, but we did not know they were there. 

 Now we know they are there, and if the home maker will see that her 

 family every day gets a dairy product, a fresh fruit, and a fresh vegetable, 

 they will get the vitamines whether they want them or not." So it comes 

 down to just a balanced ration for the family, the same as a balanced 

 ration for the cattle. 



. Dr. Funk has a boy six years old and they call this boy the Vitamine 

 Baby. Ever since the boy was born he has had a tablespoon of cod liver 

 oil every day of his life, because Dr. Funk says that there are more vita- 

 mines in cod liver oil than in anything else in the world, and this child 

 has grown to like cod liver oil. He goes to his mother before every meal. 



