554 
A. S. HEATH. 
Calories. Calories. 
I 
pound of neck of beef yields. 
. I,IOO 
I 
pound of salt mackerel yields. . 
1,860 
i i 
6 6 
chuck rib “ “ 
. 1,320 
6 6 
6 6 
oysters 
66 
230 
6 6 
6 6 
rib “ “ . 
• 1,790 
6 6 
6 6 
wheat flour 
6 6 
1,615 
6 6 
6 6 
sirloin “ “ 
. 1,210 
• 1,655 
6 6 
6 6 
rye “ 
6 6 
1,625 
4 6 
6 6 
corn’d flank “ “ 
6 6 
(6 
buckwheat 
6 6 
1,605 
46 
6 6 
roast should’ r prk “ 
. 1,680 
6 6 
6 6 
oatmeal 
4 6 
1,850 
46 
6 6 
fat salted “ “ 
• 3 , 5 io 
6 6 
6 6 
corn meal 
6 6 
1,615 
4 6 
6 6 
pork sausage “ 
. 2,065 
66 
6 6 
potatoes 
6 6 
375 
4 6 
6 6 
bologna sausage “ 
• 1,015 
6 6 
6 6 
sweet potatoes 
6 6 
530 
. 6 
6 6 
chicken ‘ ‘ 
540 
6 6 
6 4 
cabbage 
6 6 
155 
4 6 
6 6 
turkey “ 
810 
6 6 
66 
apples 
66 
3 i 5 
4 6 
6 6 
butter ‘ ‘ 
• 3,615 
6 6 
6 6 
granulated sugar 
6 6 
1,820 
6 6 
6 6 
full cheese “ 
. 2,070 
6 6 
6 6 
molasses 
6 6 
1,360 
4 6 
6 6 
codfish “ 
• 3 IG 
6 6 
6 6 
white bread 
6 6 
1,280 
6 6 
6 6 
shad “ 
• 745 
6 6 
6 6 
Boston crackers 
66 
1,895 
4 6 
6 6 
salmon “ 
• 955 
6 6 
6 6 
beans or peas 
6 6 
1,600 
4 6 
6 6 
salt herring “ 
• i ,345 
For all practical purposes, the list is long enough to show 
the relative values of the several kinds of foods, and that most 
of the cheaper priced foods are really the most nutritious, and 
when properly cooked, the most delicious. Besides, we shall 
see that there is economy in family cooking as well as in pur¬ 
chasing. And above all other considerations, there is a beauti¬ 
ful moral excellence in the genuine economy of the family 
housekeeping that reflects infinite credit upon the noble women 
who worthily preside over and administer the precious econo¬ 
mies of the family, that nursery of true manhood and loving 
womanhood. To give the best possible benefits to the general— 
universal—family economies, education is the true essential. 
First common school education as now taught, and to which 
should be added kitchen education. For no woman can preside 
over a house who does not understand household economies. 
No matter whether she presides over a palace or a poor working¬ 
man’s home. For from both of these homes come the sovereign 
voter, and the woman who wields a vast influence for good to the 
family, to the community, and to the State. 
At present the education of American homes is far be¬ 
low the standard of excellence they might and should be. If 
civil service examinations were extended to servants, both male 
and female, the services of the homes would be surprisingly 
better than they now are. 
