d constitute a very attractive feature of a modern culinary
guide. However, hardly anyone would confess to having bought it on that
account.

In these later times professors of the culinary art tell us the cooking
has been reduced to a science, and that there is no more guess work
about it. They have given high sounding names to the food elements,
figured out perfectly balanced rations, and adjusted foods to all
conditions of health, or ill health. And yet the world is eating
practically the same old things, and in the same old way, the difference
being confined mainly to the sauces added to please the taste.

Now that women are coming into their own, and being sincerely interested
in the welfare of the race, it is entirely proper that they should
prescribe the food, balance the ration, and tell how it should be
prepared and served.

Seeing that a large majority of the sickness that plagues the land is
due to improper feeding, and can be prevented by teaching the simple
art of cooking, of serving and of eating, the wonder is that more
attention has not been given to instruction in the simpler phases of the
culinary art.

It is far from being certain that famous chefs have contributed greatly
to the health and long life of those able to pay the fine salaries they
demand. Nor are these sent to minister to the sick, nor to the working
people, nor to the poor. It would seem that even since before the time
of Lucullus their business has been mainly to invent and concoct dishes
that would appeal to perverted tastes and abnormal appetites.

The simple life promises most in this earthly stage of our existence,
for as we eat so we live, and as we live so we die, and after death the
judgment on our lives. Thus it is that our spiritual lives are more or
less directly influenced by our feeding habits.

Eating and drinking are so essential to our living and to our
usefulness, and so directly involved with our future state, that these
must be classed with our sacred duties. Hence the necessity for so
educating the children that they will know how to live, and how to
develop into hale, hearty and wholesome men and women, thus insuring the
best possible social and political conditions for the people of this
country.

"The surest way into the affections of a man is through his stomach,
also to his pocket," is an ancient joke, and yet not all a joke, there
being several grains of truth in it, enough at least to warrant some
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