Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1917 — WHAT AVERAGE GIRL DOES NOT KNOW [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WHAT AVERAGE GIRL DOES NOT KNOW

By LAURA JEAN LIBBEY

••Experience joined with common'*‘senji® To. mortals Is a .providence.” In how many households do young wives know how to .combat the high

cost of living, yet keep the family nurtured properly? In every large city, town and village It is said that girls leave the public schools around the age of fourteen and fifteen. The great majority must after that earn ’ tttftTr own living. Immediately they go into stores, shops or facto--ries. In a very few years they marry and start housekeeping with

little or no knowledge of how to buy food in small quantity, how to care for it, or how to prepare it. Such young womenhave no knowledge of the value of certain foods from the nutriment standpoint. The result is a great waste in every direction. If a girl has not been brought up to cook, for the sake of the man she is to marry she should take a course of study in it before he is" called upon to pay the bills for her ruthless waste. The recipes in some cookbooks are often extravagant, intended for a large number of persons. More can be learned from an old-fashioned housewife who has hmLto-4;ounfr-beiLpennies

to eke out sufficient to set on her tumble. Her motherly heart warms to thegirl about to marry, knowing nothing of the cost of housekeeping. A young husband might eat sugarkisses and drink poor coffee for breakfast, declaring them delicious when his bride’s hands prepared them; but a severe case of indigestion would be the result. Every human being needs certain nourishing foods that will build up tlie system - and keep up strength. ? . - ■ A diet of baker’s rolls only will not make up for the' hearty satisfaction that used to attend the thick slice of toasted whole wheat bread stich as mother used to make, soft poached eggs done to a turn, good strong coffee tempered with rich hot milk half-and-half and n generous addition of a dash of good thick cream. This, together with a saucer of breakfast food similarly treated, is a breakfast fit for a A man may have costlier breakfasts, but lie could not enjoy them more. For his luncheons when he is out of Iwr sight a woman cannot be accounts able. If he has a sweet tooth and inor pastries (disgruntling the inner man), she is not to blame. A good hot supper will counterbalance his indiscretion. The old-fashioned housewife tells a bride she should have changes in food, always with an eye to their nutritive value. She should try to do her own marketing, never forgetting that a “penny Baved is a TH?nnv~earnetL’’ AIL of these things are what every girl should know about. (Copyright, 1917.) =====