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Home Course In Domestic Science II. Selection of Food. By EDITH G. CHARLTON. In Charge of Domeitic Economy. Iowa State College. , . Copyright. 1910. by American Prau '. . . Aueciation. THE wise selection of food, to suit the Individual needs of each member of tbe family, requires the consideration of at least these three questions: 1. Is the food nutritious? 2. Is the food comparatively easy to digest? 3. Is the food reasonable in cost? The subject Is so Important that It should engage the heart and head as well as the hand of tbe woman who presides over a family. It Is sufficient ly important too, to demand some thought from every individual who values his good health and general well being. It has been frequently stated by physicians and philanthro pists that three-fourths of the sickness in the world, one-half the drunkenness and a large percentage of tbe crime have had their beginning and their cause in poor food and bad cooking. This being the case, can there be any topic of greater value for our lesson this week than tbe very old question, "What shall we eat?" First 1 should like to impress upon my readers that "we eat to live" rath er than "live to eat;" that, while there should be genuine pleasure in the sim ple act of eating, this pleasure ought to be experienced when tbe food is of simple variety. The pleasure Is a cer tainty when tbe food has been care fully and appetlzingly prepared and when hunger is a companion at the meal. The appetite which relishes only expensive foods and foods out of season is abnormal and is certain to bring disaster to its possessor. This disaster may be an attack of rheuma tism or some form of dyspepsia, or it may be a depleted bank account. ! " What Food It. In order to fulQU its office food must either build and repair tissue or it must give heat and energy to the body, and It should do these things at as lit tle unnecessary expense of physical energy as iwssible. According to Its function all kinds of food are divided Into five classes. These are the tissue building fords, tbe fat foods, starches and sugars, mineral. matter and water. Each one of these classes has its par ticular duty to perform for the body and therefore has its especial place on the dally bill of fare. Any food mate rial, no matter bow simple and well known or bow rare, contains two or more of tbese Ave classes. A few of tbe standard materials contain all five classes. . For Instance, what .do we find In a loaf of bread? A great deal of starch and Borne gluten from tbe flour, a little fat from tbe flour and more If it baa ieen added In tbe making, some min eral matter and about 85 per cent of .water. Meat also has fat, mineral matter and a substance found In the lean part which Is called proteld and . which is the tissue building property of tbe meat. The elements which com pose these different classes of food cor respond with the elements In tbe body; bence their necessity. It is chiefly from the food which we eat that we obtain those elements which are nec essary for the support of life and the functions of tbe body. The Duty of the Five Classes. Now that we have seen what an Im portant place In life our daily food oc cupies let us endeavor to learn te which class or classes certain com monly used foods belong. Tbe tissue building foods, or the proteld foods, are not numerous, but so important are they that life cannot be sustained for any length of time without them. This class of food has been given the name proteld, a word meaning "first" or "pre-euiluent," because it alone of the five classes is able to build tissue and to repair the dally waste of the cells of the body. Tbe protelds alone contain nitrogen, and nitrogen is one of tbe elements necessary to life. The following table classifies some of our common foods according to their prin cipal constituents, also gives their Bource and use In tbe body: SOURCE AND UPE OF THE CIIIEF FOOD CONSTITUENTS. I Moats I Use In the r isb Honr. PROTEIDS i Milk 1'cas I Repair Daily Beana I waste oi I (iltitun Id f lour ) Tisane ' Butter I Kat of Meats Give Rest awl Energy Produce Fat fATS I Cheese Oil in Nats Olive Oil Sugars Maple .Malt Htiitar of Milk SiiKar I u Fruit Ores is Flours Peas Beans Corn Potatoes Gtre . Heat and Energy Pro. does Fat CARBO-HYDRATES KlNTRAXi i ""'t Aolda Aid In For mat km flXLTd 1 Vegetables I Useful lathe Blood In AU Vegeta-"1 Carries Food to bles 1 tbe Blood In All Animal f Carries OS Want Foods J 8olvut For Feed Tbe sugars and starches have been grouped under one - name, carbohy drates, becanse both tbese foods con tain a considerable amount of carbon, lso two gases, hydrogen and oxygen. Which are always present In the right roportlon to form water. Tbe special function of this class of food is to give energy. Before energy is evolved there must be bent, but as heat producers tbe carbohydrates ore not as valuable as fats. The latter are more than tbree-fourtbs carbon. This fact at once proves that fat In some form is tbe food to be eaten when heat is re quired. It Is the food which uppeals to the appetite more strongly In winter than in summer and Is liked better in cold climates tbao In warm. If it were Impossible to have both fat and sugar in the diet no great harm would result to tbe body for some time, because both contain the same elements and both perform tbe same function name ly, give beat and energy. Not so with tbe protelds, however, because, being tbe only class which contains nitrogen, no other can substitute for them. Danger In Overeating. After Jearniug of the importance of proteld foods the first conclusion may be that they should form the greater part of the diet and should largely compose the daily bill of fare. This is a commou mistake and one to be care fully avoided. , The Intake of food should not be greater than tbe needs of the body and to preserve its normal equilibrium. Too much food of any kind necessitates' too much work on the organs of digestion and elemlna tion and produces certain irregularities of tbe body functions. Too much pro teld that Is. too liberal an allowance of meat, fish, eggs, cheese, etc.. in the meals will clog tbe system with urea, throw too much work on tbe kidneys in their effort to carry off this final product in the digestion of proteld. Too much proteld In the diet induces rheumatism and similar disorders. Wbeu too much fat, or carbohydrate, is eaten it Is stored up in the body as fat and tbe individual finds himself putting on adipose tissue to perhaps an uncomfortable degree. There is more danger in this country from overeating than there is from lack of food, just as the engine is likely to wear out more quickly because of too bard firing than from luck of fuel. The amount of food required to prop erly develop the body and keep it in normal condition depends on different conditions, such ns the occupation of the individual, the nge of the Individ ual, sex, climate and personal idiosyn crasies. The man or woman engaged In bard physical work requires more of tbe foods which repair tissues than does tbe person living a sedentary life. The amount of fresh air in which tbe in dividual lives will also determine largely the rapidity with which food will be oxidized in the body. For in stance, the farmer, working in the fields, will require more nourishing foods than tbe man who sits in his of fice all day. Tbe farmer's lungs are constantly tilled with fresh air; bis blood is filled with oxygen. He is per forming work which requires , much physical energy; hence bis food is rap idly burned in his body in order to yield tbe necessary energy, and he is hungry. B has a good appetite for hearty food, and be digests it with ease. The man of sedentary habits finds bis stomach rebelling and him self in general discomfort If he at tempts to follow tbe example of tbe farmer for any length of time. How Much to Eat. Occasionally we bear tbe question, "How much should we eat?" Yet, as a rule, the average person does not trouble himself very much on that score and eats what a pampered appe tite demands rather than tbe amount be actually needs. Dietary specialists have found from many experiments that an average man doing average work requires each day about four and a half ounces of proteld, two ounces of fat and sixteen ounces of carbohy drate. An average woman doing the work of an average housekeeper re quires a little less, probably about three ounces of proteld, one and a half ounces of fat and twelve ounces of carbohydrate. The boy fourteen to sixteen years of age requires four-fifths as much food as bis father, and the boy or girl of twelve years should have half as much food as an adult Recently certain specialists have been able to red-tee the amount of proteld still lower than the above standards, which are less than those given ten or twelve years ago. Dut as long as the present habit of "bolting" food with insufficient mastication is common in the couutry it Is not safe to reduce tbe amount of proteld to the lowest possi ble figure. The amount of food con stituents whii-ii 1 have suggested can be easily obtained from standard food materials; less of these will be re quired if the foods. itre properly cook ed. Just here tbe house keeper's skill is called Into account. No matter how nutritious and easy of digestion foods may be in their uucookod slate, they may be almost. If not entirely, ruined as far as digestion and assimilation are concerned lu the process of cook ing. A single portion of beefsteak, two eggs and an ounce of cheese, with milk and a little oatmeal, will furnish all tbe tissue building material the aver age man will require for oue day. A balf loaf of bread aud a hnlf pound of potatoes, with ordinary helping of rice and a tablespoonful of sugar will fur nish the required amount of carbohy drate, and tbe required fat is easily obtained from the butter used on tbe bread, tbe oils in the cheese and tbe fat in meat. There is much more chance of too much fat being eaten with the ordinary ,meal than too little.. We are likely to underrate tbe value of water in tbe diet and nse It too sparingly. Water la a food and a very necessary one. Its duties for tbe body ;re numerous and Important. It helps to carry food to tbe blood., assists In carrying off tbe waste matters, equal izes the temperature of the body and acta as a solvent for food. Its benefits to the system are many. OF How to Get Them In Good Shape For Winter Hauling. DON'T WAIT UNTIL SPRING. Much (Sood Can Be Done by Grading Up In Summer and Fall For Work Later On How to Make a Drag From Split Hickory Log. On every farm where there is a mile or more of road, unless It has been made permanent by grading properly and macadamized or graveled, there ought to be a road drag. With such a tool at hand any farmer can with lit tle time and trouble keep bis farm roads in -perfect condition. Having a large farm and over two miles of roadway, I have found a homemnde drag to be a most useful implement. Of course we can got along with poor roads on the farm, but if we are the sort of farmers who take pride in having things in tbe best shape we will certainly take pleasure In keeping our farm roads in good con dition. And I may add that it takes so little time and trouble to run over f J DOW DRAGGING IMPI10VE3 A ROAD. From Good Roads Magazine, New York. a mile or two of road when the team is already hitched to the drag that I usually go through the outside gate and work up and down the public, road lu front of the farm when I drag the farm roads.. The longer I keep my drag and use It on my roads the more l appreciate it. Mine is of the red spilt log type. I made it of a ten foot section of a twelve Inch hickory, log, split in the middle, and on the front cutting edge nailed some heavy sheet iron. It works about as well as tbe metal ones, some of which I see occasionally. I don't think it took me two hours to make my drag, though I did not make it strictly according to tbe reg ulation method as I have seen drags illustrated in farm papers. All of those seemed to have the two sections of log put together by having three large augur holes bored through them and round wooden bars about two Inches, in diameter put through to bold them parallel and rigid. 1 did not have the large augur to bore holes big enough for stout wood en bars, so 1 merely sawed down into the upper edges of each half of the log at three places and split out the blocks, leaving a place Into which I could put a piece of four inch scant ling. 1 cut three pieces of scantling thirty-six Inches long and fitted them into the cutout places and made them fast by driving spikes six inches long into them. Tbe job seems to be as solid as those made by boring holes and putting the bars through. Some people make their drags of plank, and they do very well, but cost more and will not stand hard usage so well as tbe regular split log drag. There Is not of course, so great need of tbe drag in summer and fall as in winter and spring, but It is a much easier and pleasanter job to make it then, and, besides, if one drags his roads a few times In summer and gets them well graded tip they will re main in good shape far better than If left just as the summer hauling has made them. Moreover, on iniiuy farms there are wet places in the roads that cannot well lie worked to advantage in wlutci and spring. If these nte graded up and drained lu the fall they will no doubt stay tood all the time. There is another use I have seen the drag put to that on some farms will c'ome in very handy. Quite a good many cattle owners find it expedient to pen up their cattle at night in sum mer. As a rule, no straw or other bed ding is thrown over tbe lot. and the manure remains on tbe ground and dries out and on sloping ground is of ten all washed away. 1 find that if I run the road drag over the cowpen occasionally I can scrape up several loads of the best kind of manure that is well worth collecting and hauling out to tbln spots on the farm. I say with emphasis there is -no small job that a farm owner can more profit ably devote a few hours to when he has some leisure time after tbe press of farm work la over than constructing a road drag. Missouri Cor. Farm Prog ress. Hard Dirt Roads. ' Kansas perhaps has the best natural roads of any state in tbe Union. There Is practlcnlly a highway on every sec tion line. In tbree-fourtbs of tbe state tbe dirt roads ten months of tbe year are as level and hard as a floor. ir pi Women as Wen es Hen arc Hade MiserabLj by Kidney and Bladder Trouble. Kidney trouble preys upon the mind, discouragesandlessensambition; beauty, vigor ana cneenui ness soon disappear when the kidneys are out of order or dis eased. Kidney trouble has become so prevalent tnat it is not uncom mon for a child to be born afflicted with weak kidneys. If the child urinates too often, if the urine scalds the flesh, or if, when the child reaches an age when it should be able to control the passage, it is yet afflicted with bed-wetting, depend upon it, the cause of the diffi culty is kidney trouble, and the first step should be towards the treatment of these important organs. This unpleasant trouble is due to a diseased condition of the kidneys and bladder and not to a habit as most people suppose. Women as well as men are made miser, able with kidney and bladder trouble, and both need the same great remedy. The mild and the immediate effect of Swamp-Root is soon realized. It is sold by druggists, in fifty cent and one-dollar size bottles. You may have a sample bottle by mail free, also a pamphlet telling all aOOUt OWamp-KOOt, Home of Swamp-Root. including many of the thousands of testi monial letters received from sufferers who found Swamp-Root to be just the remedy needed. In writing Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., be sure and mention this paper. Don't make any mistake, but remember the name, Dr Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the address Binghamton, N. Y., on' every bottle. PUBLIC SCHOOL LIBRARIES. List of Libraries In The CountyNew Libraries Being Established. The County Superintendent of Schools baa just made requisition upon the State Department of Edu cation for the State's part in the es tablishment of rural libraries for the following districts: Districts No. C of Cjleridge, known as Parks Cross-Roads, and No. 5 of New Market, known as Level Cross, for original libraries of $30.00 each; District No. 4 of New Hope and No. 1 of New Market for supplementary libraries of $15.00 each. For original libraries the local district must raise $10.00 and the county and State duplicate this amount! For supplementary libra ries the dutrict raises $5.00 and, this amount is duplicated by the county and State. KandolDh now has 36 rural libra ries as follows: Ramseur, Franklin ville, Cedar Falls, Ra idlemn, New Salem, Hopewell, Providence, Why Not, Glenola, FliDt Hill, Liberty, Asheboroj Brower'a Chapel, Bombay, Mount Olivet, Central Falls, Worth ville, Staley, Melanchton, Marlboro, Caraway, Farmer, Plainfield, Mill- boro, Julian, Smlon, Coleridge, Un ion, Piney Grove, Pleasant Hill, Ce dar Square, Trinity, Archdale, Park's Crossroads, Level Cross,-Ashebaro, colored. These libraries have been supplemented since their establish- mentas follows: . Randleman, $15. 00; Franklin ville, $15.00; Ramseur, $15.00; Providence, $15.00; Why Not. $30.00; Glenola, $30.00; Staley, $15. 00; Marlboro, $15. 00; Caraway, $15.00; Farmer, $15.00; Julian, $15.00; Bombay, $15.00, Trinity, $15.00; Ashebiro colored,$15. 00. several applications for libraries will soon be reported. The children of tbe county are looking for better things to read. This is an indica tion of a healthy sentiment among the people. Bees Laxative Couch Svrun contains no opiate or narcotic. It is a gentle, easy lax ative, by which it drives the cold from the system and at the same time heals irritation o'f the throat and stops the cough . bold by Simpson's Dtng Store. , Large Porkers In Other Counties. Says the Stanley Enterprize: Frank M, Boyett is the champion pork raiser of the county, so far as reports thus far received show. 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