ghtful attention.

Women being the homekeepers, and the natural guardians of the children,
it is important that they be made familiar with the culinary art so they
may be entirely competent to lead coming generations in the paths of
health and happiness.

So say the members of Equal Franchise Associations throughout the length
and breadth of our land, and beyond the border as far as true
civilization extends.

Hence this book which represents an honest effort to benefit the people,
old and young, native and foreign. It is not a speculative venture but a
dependable guide to a most desirable social, moral and physical state of
being.

Disguise it as we may the fact remains that the feeding of a people is
of first importance, seeing the feeding is the great essential to
success, either social or commercial. The farmer and stock raiser gives
special attention to feeding, usually more to the feeding of his animals
than of his children, or of himself. And yet he wonders why his domestic
affairs do not thrive and prosper as does his farming and stock
raising.

Physical trainers are most particular about what the members of their
classes eat and drink. One mess of strawberry short cake and cream will
unfit a boy for a field contest for a whole week, while a full meal of
dainties may completely upset a man or woman for a day or two.

The cook book of the past was filled mainly with recipes for dainties
rather than sane and wholesome dishes; the aim being to please the taste
for the moment rather than to feed the body and the brain.

Now that we are entering upon an age of sane living it is important that
the home makers should be impressed with the fact that good health
precedes all that is worth while in life, and that it starts in the
kitchen; that the dining room is a greater social factor than the
drawing room.

In the broader view of the social world that is dawning upon us the cook
book that tells us how to live right and well will largely supplant
Shakespeare, Browning, and the lurid literature of the day.

=ERASMUS WILSON=
(The Quiet Observer)

The tocsin of the soul--the dinner bell.
--Byron.

As it is a serious matter _what_ is put into the human stomach, I feel
it incumbent to say that my readers may safely eat everything set down
in this book.

Mos