Judge — February 19, 1910 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE'S WOMEN'S Mr. Hik Hok. as follows: Home-made whole-wheat bread for 335 days, at three cents per day Butter at thirty cents pound (average), for days Fifty pounds sugar for winter preserving, at seven cents per pound Milk, one pint twice a week for forty-eight weeks, at three cents per pint Condiments per 335 Grand Total THE DAY AFTER VALENTINE. Jimmic—'* Say, Mamie, why didn't you let me be your valentine yesterday ?"" ‘Cause I don’t like the ugiy kind.”” Mamie Evans Ale S the quality of the malt, the chaice- Een ot the hops, the purity of the spring water and 124 years brewing rience that make EVANS’ ALE the , hearty beverage ous, health-givin, Hh it iss motete ros CW. Frame & Som, Metso, 8. Te POS For the benefit of our women readers in the myriad homes where Jue we have entered into an arrangement with the famouseditor of The Perfect Ladies’ Companion, Any perfect lady among our readers who has troubles of household or heart go in perfect confidence to Mr. Hok, who will at intervals convey through these pages advice or comfort, as the case may demand. CHEAP AND HEALTHFUL LIVING SERIES. Article —How I Fed My Family of Nine for One Year from $39.78 and a Garden. By MARY EVA KITCHEL., UR EXPENSES for the year were’ Two raw carrots cut into dice. Dry whole-wheat bread, toasted. Half slices. Lettuce. Hickory nuts, served with salt. DINNER. Bean soup, in cups, made without pork. One raw turnip sliced, garnished with parsley. Eguilateral, two inches a side tri- angles of stale whole-wheat bread, cut thin. Butter-balls size of shoe- buttons, A few cabbage leaves, raw. Cherries. DEPART- MENT a favorite, The feast of reason and the flow of soul, too, found here a right of way. Otherwise we drank nothing with our meals. Of condiments, though inex- pensive, we used but little, believing The flour and sugar occasionally used that Nature is the best seasoner, and, in cooking were very inconsiderable, 98 the poet has it, she never will for- and their prices are included under Sake the heart that loves her. So why bread and sugar respectively. not trust her for our grosser wants? Nor was the planting of our garden a And just @ word now about the floral formidable undertaking. It contrib- decorations. Select them judiciously. uted just adozen or so of the more com- Roses we found peculiarly inadvisable. all of which we found They are delicate as a relish, but their altogether, atistic value in joining the main vege- $10.05 23.15 mon vegetables better eaten raw, and, 3,50 about a dozen kinds of fruits and nuts table to work out a color scheme was—I / in their seasons. The entire garden blush to confess it!—more than can- was surrounded by a high spiked iron celed by the unseemly rivalry of the children to eat the leaves. Of course we Fletcherized; and, as has been so often attested, doing so {does lessen very appreciably the desire for food. This we found true even the first day. And, of course, no food was 2.86 ‘fence, to keep the children from get- — ting inside between meals. So much $39.78 for our food supply. CLEAR-HEADED. HEAD BOOKKE MUST BE RELIABL The chief bookkeeper in a large bu house in one of our great Western es speaks of the harm coffee did for My wife and I drank our first cup | of Postum a little over two years ago, and we have used it ever since, to the entire exclusion of tea and coffee, It | happened in this w: | ‘About three and a half years ago I had an attack of pneumonia, which left |a memento in the shape of dyspep: or rather, to speak more correctly, neuralgia of the stomach. My ‘cup of |¢ cheer’ had always been coffee or tea, |but I became convinced, after a time, | |that they aggravated my stomach trou- ‘ble. I happened to mention the matter |to my grocer one day, and he suggested that I give Postum a trial. | “Next day it came, but the cook made the mistake of not boiling ii sufficiently, and we did not like it much. This was, however, soon remedied, and now we e it so much that we will never change back. Postum, being a food beverage instead of a drug, has been the means of curing my stomach Believing, with our best-known au- trouble, I verily believe, for I am a thorities op diet, that. ‘oversating, (el! man to day and have used no other emedy. underchewing, and using too much My work as chief bookkeeper in meat are the sources of nearly all our company’s branch house here is o: human misery, we determined not soto a very confining nature. During my err, and, first thing, gave up the foolish Cffee-drinking days I was subject to nervousness and ‘ the blues,’ in addition breakfast habit. Animal food was also tl mny sick spells, These have left me ruled out, saving that we still coun- since I began using Postum, and I can tenanced a sparing use of butter and conscientiously recommend it to those milk in our rare cooking. Whose work confines them to long hours To such dainty and easily prepared OF,{quere mental exertion. meals as the following it was our daily — J.ook in packages for the little book, privilege to sit down: “* The Road to Weliville.’" Ever read the above letter? . “4 time. They are genuine, true, is 1a ted’ to Loaéon trench, fromm which it was taken. and full of human interest. In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. Jallowed save to the cheerful only; and as, when mealtime came round, one at least was discontented, the problem simplified itself into the feeding of really fewer than eight persons two times a day, i. e., the providing never more than fifteen meals a day, which, to breakfast-eaters, would mean five three-meal-a-day boarders for eleven months of the year. Incidentally, the discontented gained for their digestive apparatuses many beneficial little vaca- | tions, | And, right here, I will mention what was a by no means insignificant feature of our economy—the fasting of each one for thirty days. It is needless for me to reiterate the excellent results of this practice, and I am convinced besides that, if persisted in, the desire of man would so fail him that all kinds of vice would ultimately vanish from off the face of the earth, However, we tried to have only one in the house at a time setting out for this Nirvana, as it was our ex- perience that the first month’s journey thither is somewhat trying to the dis- position. At these times and between meals all were at liberty to fill up on cheerful thoughts, deep breaths of fresh air, and a quite unrestricted water sup- ply, this last well churned in the mouth before swallowing. Just one point more. Nights and mornings, when the subconscious self is in the fullness of its power, it is a splendid plan for the boys to keep say- ing to themselves and to fancy written all over the bedroom walls such sen- tences as these: I am full of energy! T excel at long runs and high jumps! I am captain of my college football team! The girls’ should read: I am growing stronger every day! I can wash win- dows! I can scrub the kitchen floor! And, incidentally, the lads and lassies are educating themselves for their high- est respective spheres in days to come. I overheard my eldest son muttering one morning, ‘*I am eating beefsteak, I am eating beefsteak!"’ in shocking repetition, It goes without saying that this was most pernicious, so great is the power of suggestion, As three of my children were too young to concentrate their minds sufficiently or to read the writing on the walls, I had my wife suggest these same thoughts to them during their sleeping hours, and with equal success. I have observed that this treatment, particularly in times of fasting, is invariably followed by a dif- ference in weight. And now, before closing, may I not especially commend this simple com- bination of practices, each of which has been already proved so indisputably economical and healthful, to settlement workers or to any others studying the great question of feeding our poor? “How Our Family of Nine Slept on the Roof and Rented Out Our Upstairs to Roomers "’ will be the subject of my next article in this series. NOTE. Madeline S, The famous receipe for charcoal pancakes has been published several times. See issue of day after yesterday. A tablespoonful of Abbott's Bitters in sweetened water is a great aid to digestion. comicbooks.com