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THE LAMPASAS LEADER
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MISS INDEPENDENCE
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AREN’T there times
when you are told
You must do this or that
You’d rather like to be
As independent as a cat?
You’d rather like to flick
your tail
And simply walk away
As if to say 4T can’t be
bothered
Doing that today.”
© Harper & Brothers—WNU Service.
HOUSEWIFE MUST HEED DIETETICS
83
Problem of Planning Meals
Is Important One.
By EDITH M. BARBER
qpHE problem of providing food for
X the family demands from the house-
wife of today much more than it did a
generation ago when the principal aim
■was to furnish the plentiful, appetizing
meals which have been made famous
as “the meals mother used to make.”
This is and should be still part of a
housewife’s job, but it must now be
subservient to the principles of the
science of nutrition, which has been
developed in the last few years. The
first aim of the housewife now is to
provide her family with the food which
contains all the elements upon which
growth, development and health de-
pend. At the same time experience
has proved that food must be well
combined and attractively prepared in
order to stimulate appetite, which will
insure that these foods are actually
eaten.
Because the science of nutrition is
still so young there have not been eas-
ily available as many helps to the
housewife as are desirable.
The “Foundations of Nutrition,” by
Dr. Mary Swartz Rose, professor of
nutrition at Teachers’ college, Colum-
bia university, is a book for the house-
wife as well as for the student. 1 ad-
vise the housewife, however, if she is
a beginner interested in the study of
nutrition, to begin with the last two
chapters. In both these chapters we
find the practical application of the
principles of nutrition and which the
student will wish to understand in the
first- place. The housewife will be in
a hurry to apply the suggestions in the
two last chapters, but after reading
and digesting them will almost cer-
tainly be interested enough to begin
at the beginning of the book;
To quote Mrs. Rose herself. “The
novice in nutrition is like a person who
has never seen a watch ; when he looks
at it first, all he observes is a shiny
case with a glass front covering a
dial bearing numbers from 1 to 12,
and hands which revolve upon it. How
different the mental picture of the
watchmaker, who with his mind’s eye
looks through- the metal case as if it
were transparent and beholds delicate
wheels, jewels, screws, springs, all re-
lated to each other and harmoniously
contributing to the beautifully co-ordi-
nated movement of the whole.” The
housewife first of all wants to know
what time it is and how to tell time
before she learns how to wind and
regulate a watch, much less how it is
put together. These last chapters “tell
the time.”
Mrs. Rose has given us a new meth-
od of judging and comparing values of
various foods. Nutritionists have
found the number of calories, the
amounts of protein, calcium, iron and
phosphorus which aremeeded daily by
man. The number of calories fo an
average man is considered as 3,000 a
day. One-tenth of those calories should
come from protein. A hundred cal-
orie portion of one-thirtieth of the
day’s ration of a food then is an en-
ergy “share.” An ideal share would be
a 300 calories portion which carried
with it one-thirtieth of a share of the
amount of protein, calcium and iron
needed each day.
The vitamin requirements cannot be
measured in numbers, but each share
ALL THE SIGNS
“771==-
Wifey—Did you notice the wonder-
ful diamond earrings that lady we
just passed wore?
Hubby—Yes. She had the earmarks
of an heiress.
should have liberal amounts of the
various vitamins. Of course, the ideal
food is nonexistent, some foods hav-
ing a large amount of calcium, for in-
stance, and at the same time a low
amount of iron. The sum of the foods
for the day, however, should reach
a thirty share total which is quite pos-
sible on a varied diet.
A typical adequate menu for a day
at a low price is given as follows:
Breakfast.
Farina with l1^ cups milk and 1 ta-
blespoon sugar
Graham bread, % lb., with molasses
and coffee
Luncheon.
Baked beans with pork fat
Graham bread, % pound
Cheese
Milk, % cup in coffee
Dinner.
Beef stew with potato, tomato and
beef fat.
Raw cabbage
Graham bread, *4 lb.
The section on well-balanced diets
for growing children, the pre-school
child, the adolescent boy and girl, as
well as the family diets will particu-
larly interest the mother who is vitally
concerned in giving her child a founda-
tion of health.
©. Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
OW IT STARTEl
By JEAN NEWTON
That Word “Housewife”
; U OUSE WIFE” — on analysis
IT
on analysis a
strange term, for no woman can
be the wife of a house. And yet it is
the modern word in good standing to
describe the occupation of a married
woman who devotes her time to the
maintenance of her home.
The term is a very old one, its first
literary use dating 3225 in a work
called the “Aucren Riwle,” in which
it is spelled “husewif.” The first rec-
ord of the modern spelling “housewife”
is found under date of 1710 in the
“British Apollo.”
In the original early Middle Eng-
lish, the word was taken from “hus”
(house) and “wif” (woman or wife).
Incidentally the reader may remark
that the English of those days was a
very different language from that we
know today.
It would appear that in the early
use of the word the emphasis was
more on the house than the wife, for
it applied also to a single woman who
was the head of a household.
©, Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
Dog Able to Sing
5 Notes in E Flat
Cincinnati.—Did you ever hear a
dog singing? “Well, I did,” said
Mrs. Anna Alexander. She owns
such a dog, Tim.
This is not a back fence night-
mare. He actually identifies and
imitates five musical notes. His
range is within the key of E flat.
When Mrs. Alexander plays chords
on the piano, Tim gives voice—or
bark—to tones of surprising resem-
blance.
Mrs. Alexander, a teacher of
voice, observed the dog’s love of
music, and then she began the sys-
tematic development of his “talent.”
Mayan Culture Still
Exists in Guatemala
Washington,—Descendants of the
Mayas, inhabitants of a great ancient
empire, exist in the highlands of
Guatemala, according to the Smith-
sonian institution.
Both the Mayan race and its strange
culture, the institution explained, still
are alive. Artifacts of present day
Mayas, officials pointed out, differ
slightly from those of ancestors, whose
powerful civilization existed before the
Spanish conquest.
The decorative gold work of the
Guatemalan Mayas, experts claimed,
is creditable to the finest European
goldsmith. Their cotton fabrics are
woven on old-style Maya handlooms
with intermixtures of colors in elab-
orate designs. Yarns, it was added,
still are dyed with vegetable com-
pounds.
Physically, declared Dr. Ales Hrdlic-
ka, curator of physical anthropology,
latter day Mayas differ from their
ancient relatives. The same native
language is spoken, and, the curator
added, the old religion is retained to a
certain extent.
Bank Teller Is Victim
of Joke by Gypsy Girls
Cleveland, Ohio.—They’re telling a
$180 joke at the expense of Leo Bates,
teller, and Frank Ballow, guard, both
of the same bank here.
How two young women, in bright
gypsy garb, came to Bates’ window
and asked him to change a $50 bill,
was recorded in a police report. While
the teller was counting out the change
one of the women reached through
the bars and grabbed at a roll of $20
bills in Bates’ hand.
Bates jerked back his hand quickly.
“A good joke,” the two women
chuckled gaily, while Bates was think-
ing, “These gypsies are a funny peo-
ple.” Guard Ballow, according to the
police was a few feet away at the
time. A few minutes after the two
women left the bank, still chortling
over their little joke, Bates checked
over the roll of twenties. Nine were
gone.
Woman, 86, Loses Hair;
It Grows in Again, Black
Westminster, Md.—To be active at
eighty-six is rare, but Mrs. Susan Bish,
of Union Mills, Carroll county, has
done even better than that and has
grown a second crop of hair, not gray,
but black.
According to Arthur Bowers, West-
minster officer and a son of Mrs. Bish,
his mother lost her hair at the age of
84. Within six months new hair be-
gan lo grow and at the present time
it is long enough to braid.
Prof. Osterberg Comes for a Medal
Guests Must Be Old
Great Bend, Kan.—The minimum
age limit to attend an annual party
given by M. L. Crow is eighty. Unless
a person is that age or over, his pres-
ence is not desired at the oldsters’
party, which was inaugurated four
years ago. Last year seventeen at-
tended.
Useful Hint
A clinical thermometer from which
the figures have disappeared may he
restored by smearing the whole ther-
mometer with indelible ink and re-
moving the excess with cotton after
it has dried. The ink will settle in
the old markings.
W’M
If
Prof. Ragnar Osterberg of Sweden, with Mrs. Osterberg, arriving at New
Sork on their way to Washington. The professor was awarded the gold medal
of the American Institute of Architects for his design for the town hall of
Stockholm, and President Roosevelt consented to present the medal to him at
the White House.
Lights of New York l7l. stevenson
Meanderings and meditations: The
quick clotting of motors in the narrow
mid-town cross streets at the change
of the traffic signal . . . and taxi
drivers trying to gain a few feet by
cutting in where they don’t belong.
. . . The somber dignity of the Ritz
lobby . . . and that mahogany-
faced doorman. . . . Madison ave-
nue always suggests antiques to me.
. . . But there’s a sporting goods
store showing what the well-dressed
fisherman should wear. . . . Gan-
na Walska who’s been exiled to Amer-
ica .. . and no turning of heads
as she windowshops on Fifth avenue.
. . . A deb being led by three im-
pudent chows. . . . Commuters stream-
ing toward Grand Central . . . and
most of them carrying bundles. . . .
Cocktails seem to have tumbled anoth-
er nickel in the various little restau-
rants in the forties.
* * *
Dowagers entering the Waldorf-As-
toria. . . . Tried to reach Gen.
‘Hugh S. Johnson there recently. . . .
A voice on the wire wanted to know
who was calling. . . . She was in-
formed. . . . Then another voice
asked the same question. ... If
she was checking up, the answers
agreed. . . . But a third voice
came on the wire and said that Gen-
eral Johnson was not registered. . . .
He may not have been registered. . . .
But he was there all right. . . .
Wonder if that sidetrack, down under-
neath the hotel, for private cars, has
ever been used? ... A florist’s
window full of roses. . . . Roses
make me think of the late George B.
Catlin. . . . Hope they are still
growing in a Clairmont avenue back-
yard . . . and that this June they
bloom more profusely and more sweet-
ly than ever before. . . . He gave
me those plants many years ago.
* * *
One of those long-distance busses
radio equipped. . . . Wonder if
the passengers have anything to say
about what shall be tuned in? . . .
A pretzel peddler on West Forty-third
street. . . . First time I’ve seen
one that far uptown. . . . The old
peddler who stands in the shelter of
the Municipal building looks like he
stepped out of the Bible. . . . “A
safe with a lock and key for a dime.”
. . . Not many being sold . . .
and business in “the smallest deck of
cards in the world” seems to be slack.
... . Song sheets are holding up all
right. . , . Saw two little stenog-
raphers make purchases.
* * *
Alfredo Salmaggi, impressario of
popular-priced grand opera. . . .
He’s on Broadway this season. . . .
Only a dozen or so blocks from the
Nations of World Pay Homage to Bard of Avon
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Scene in Stratford-on-Avon, England, as 74 national flags were unveiled by the representatives of as many coun-
tries durine the celebration of the 370th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth.
old JMet. . . . Wears his hair long.
. . . Likes to talk about his 34 di-
plomas. ... Fourteen decorations
. . . and nine children. . . . Has 250
people in his company.this year. . . .
Also camels and elephants. . . . Won-
der what’s happened to the “Be brief”
signs that used to adorn desks? . . .
On the wagon. . . . Statistical
note: The General Motors corpora-
tion has 351,959 stockholders. ...
In 1917, it had 1.927.
+ • *
Bootblacks pitching pennies under
the Paramount marquee. . . . Three
panhandlers in one block. . . . Forty-
three per cent of the beggars arrested
recently were found to be alcoholics.
. . . Yet they all asked for a nickel
for a cuppa cawfee. ... An apple-
cheeked old woman with a cheery
smile peddling daffydils . . . and I’m
wearing one now. ... A waiting
chauffeur reading the - Bible. . . .
A restaurant window filled with mush-
rooms and strawberries.
* * •
A friend just back from Los Angers
was telling me about earthquakes.
. . . A group of carpenters was
working on a set. ... Of a sud-
den, there was a rumble. . . . They
dropped their tools and ran out of the
studio. . . . In a few minutes they
came back looking sheepish. . . .
“Hot place, it was only a truck,” re-
marked one. . . . Laughed also
about that Park avenue gentleman who
threw a party. . . . The next
morning, he asked one of his guests
how he got home. . . . “You drove
ine,” was the reply . . . and the
host promptly had the jitters. . . .
Because he didn’t remember having
been in his car. ... It costs $5 to
pass a red light . . . and a lot of
time in court waiting to plead guilty.
* * *
Pennies dropping into the tin cup
of a blind man. ... A hurdy-gurdy
playing “The Sidewalks of New York”
. . . and the end of another day
among the Seven Million.
©. Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
My Neighbor
SAYS:
T T THEN meat is to be used for sand-
W wich filling, it should be put
through the food chopper and mixed
with seasonings.
♦ * *
Do not wash grease spots on lin-
oleum or wood floors with hot water,
as this sets the grease. Wash with
soap powder and cold water until the
grease comes out.
* * *
A grater for cheese, etc., can easily
be made at home by punching holes
through a tin cover with a nail.
* * *
Custard filling is less likely to soak
into a pie crust if the crust is baked
before the custard mixture is poured
into it.
©, the Associated Newspaper*
WNU Service
PRESUMPTUOUS
“He’s one of the most conscientious
men I know.”
“So?”
“Yes. He always says: Give me a
match, please, instead of lend me s
match.”
Escalators in Tube
Escalators at the Holborn tube In
London, England, travel at a speed of
180 feet an hour.
History of Lighting Is
Traced Back to 5000 B. C.
Thp earliest form of lighting was a
wood fire in a cave—the fire being pro-
vided originally by lightning, says
Pathfinder Magazine.
5000 B. C.—Torches or lighted splin-
ters of “fat” wood placed in holders
of stone or clay.
300 B. C.—Lamps, made of brass or
bronze, became highly artistic.
50 B. C.—Romans used rushes
soaked in grease—forerunner of the
candle.
300 A. D.—Phoenicians introduced
candles in Europe.
400 to 1700 A. D.—The candle, made
of tallow or wax, vies with lamps and
lanterns.
1700—Oil lamps, with wicks, began
to be used.
1780 — Improved oil lamps are
equipped with round wicks and glass
chimneys.
1800—Gas lighting perfected, but
candles remained the almost universal
light as gas was considered very dan-
gerous.
1850 — Discovery of petroleum in
Pennsylvania, revolutionizing oil lamp
lighting. Ill-smelling whale oil had
been used for some time before that.
3S79—Edison, apostle of light, pro-
duces carbon-filament Incandescent
electric bulb. Electric arc lights had
been in use a short time before that.
1885—Welsbach produces incandes-
cent gas mantle lamp.
1922—Incandescent electric bulb us-
ing tungsten filament gives greatly in*-
creased efficiency.
First Mention of Spoons
Is Traced to the Bible
Of all the articles and utensils that
are used in the modern household
there is none which can be traced to
earlier beginnings than the spoon, says
a writer in the Washington Post.
Besides having a fascinating history,
a spoon is one of the loveliest, most
graceful pieces used on the table.
Going back to its origin, the first
reference made to spoons is in the
Bible, where Moses was commanded
to make gold spoons for the taber-
nacle.
During medieval times spoons were
made of silver, horn or wood. Even
though England is so closely associ-
ated with lovely silver designs, it was
on the continent that silver spoons
were used first . . . probably Italy.
After the silver spoons became pop-
ular in England, about the time of the
Tudor and Stuart reigns, it became
fashionable to give apostle spoons as
christening gifts. They were called
apostle spoons because of the figure
of an apostle at the end of the spoons.
A complete set of these was very val-
uable, and were owned only by the
wealthy families. This gave rise to
the saying of “being born with a silver
spoon in his mouth.”
As is always true, the moment
spoons became fashionable in the
homes of the rich, they were copied
in less expensive materials for peo-
ple of limited means. Pewter and
alchemy were two materials used ex-
tensively. Alchemy is somewhat like
brass.
Chase Was Not “Ruined”
Once when a southern master, who
had stopped in Cincinnati with a slave
girl, Matilda, attempted to take her
back into slavery, Salmon P. Chase
appeared in her behalf, as he frequent-
ly did in similar cases without expec1
tation of pecuniary reward. After thq
hearing of this case, a gentleman of re-
pute who had been present, referring
to Chase, said: “There goes a prom-
ising young lawyer who has just
ruined himself.” That gentleman ful-
ly realized how unpopular in those
days was the defense of the enslaved
and friendless. Still, the man who had
“just ruined himself” rose to be United
States senator, twice governor of thiB
state, secretary of the treasury, and
finally chief justice of the United
States,
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Silk Worm Industry
The silk industry is an important
source of wealth in north India and
could doubtless furnish a livelihood!
to many more persons than it doesi
were it not for religious scruples thali
are very strong in some parts of that:
country. In the process of manufac-
turing silken materials from the coi
coons of the moths that originally spin
the silk it is necessary to destroy tlio
living moths inside the cocoons. In
Buddhist territories of India and Ceyt
Ion this act is regarded as a seriouu
religious offense.
Caesar’s Wives
Caesqr had four wives. His first
was Cossutia. In writing of her a
Latin historian uses the word "dis-
missa.” In translating this word one
writer speaks of Caesar having re-
pudiated Cossutia, the daughter of a
very rich Roman, who had been
pledged to him from Caesar’s earliest
infancy. At the death of Cornelia
Caesar espoused Pompeia, the daugh-
ter of Pompey. She was repudiated.
Caesar next married Calpurnia, wli<r
survived him.
The Raccoon
Raccoon coats are quite familiar to
all who attend college football games,
hut the animals that produce the fur
from which they are made are not so
often in the public view. Usually rac-
coons leave home only after dark.
The name raccoon is believed to be a
corruption of the American Indian
word “arrathkune.” The animals are
omnivorous beasts and wash their food
before eating It.
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