Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1912 — Soup the Chief Dish. [ARTICLE]

Soup the Chief Dish.

For practical living most of us ought to make soup the chief dish at the meal, and with some fruit dessert it is most satisfying and sustaining. We should recognize that the vast majority have more to conserve their money* and foods than to cultivate appetite. Children, especially when in good health, need no coaxing to eat all that they need, and if tendency to be dainty is discovered, It is often best that they, or we, be induced to eat plain foods by the sauce of real hunger, rather than derange already perverted digestion by artificial stimulant to appetite. Plenty of plain food, and in not too great variety, is the natural need atfd demand pf real growing health. Age or infirmity need appetite coaxers, but vigorous health sharpens its own appetite. Indolence or acquired daintiness are to be most honestly condemned.