sprout. When steamed they will be found tasty. Various flavors may be used. Should one prefer to first dry the preparation in the oven before steaming a different flavor is obtained. Such food is vitalizing as the vitamin develops very rapidly, to say nothing of the stimulating effect. Milk and cheese

may be used in preparing these dishes.

Peas and whole corn, too, may be allowed to sprout first before steaming. Owing to the increase in nourishment it is self-understood that such dishes are not to be used daily, neither excessively. Nursing mothers and hard-working people need them in their daily menu.

What counts in foods is not how much variety we prepare, but how little selection, scientifically prepared and compounded.

Cooking can be simplified if we would learn to systematize and itemize the dishes which are to go into our menu. Do so not only from day to day, but arrange your program for a whole month deviating from day to day only in as far as necessity demands, and where left-overs need consideration, although we prefer no left-overs, and for this reason rather prepare a little less than too much, and make up for lack by placing doughgods or matzos on the table.

Colds are membranous troubles due to

slow fire to steam or into a slow oven. Thirty more minutes will suffice to make the artichoke tender. For a change you may shave off the ends with a sharp knife and after first parboiling fill the petals, that is, the space between the petals, with any kind of a filling that appeals to your taste. We use as a rule a few breadcrumbs, parsley, onion, browned flour gravy to hold together the ingredient, and add whatever spices suit the taste. A little experimenting will reveal many novel ways, proving interesting as well as beneficial to the constitution. But above all things, we should remember that there is no better nerve tonic and nerve builder. Artichokes will do to the general constitution what parsley does to the bladder and celery does to the kidneys.

Work divers peas, beans and lentils into your menu and note the general improvement, also the lower cost of living.

Lima beans, alternated by pink beans, chic peas, split peas and lentils, with rice and barley added, will make up a nice weekly menu, meeting every requirement. A little study in preparing dishes will disguise the usual elementary taste.

Whole barley and whole rye allowed to sprout will prove a very stimulating dish. It takes thirty-six more hours for either to

though at fancy prices. But delicateness should not stop or hesitate before prices, as there is a way of cutting down on other items. Health must be the first consideration.

Some temperaments prefer bananas. Be sure you whip bananas well, or better still, stew them in a tightly covered dish over a very slow fire. Bananas thus treated must be ripe. Unripe bananas are better baked in the oven or boiled a few minutes in quickly boiling water, with jackets on.

French endive, chicory, celery, lettuce and dandelions will be found excellent tonic in a salad for lunch. A whole wheat preparation with it will complete an ideal meal.

For an after-dinner dish you will find a few raisins and a few almonds quite sufficient.

Artichokes are coming in. Do not let them pass you by. One small artichoke or the half of a big one will fill the bill and help restore and adjust that depleted condition of yours and place you into the very pit of a stock market. First parboil the artichoke in plenty of water. After ten minutes of boiling, pour off the water and set artichoke into a well covered dish, first adding to each artichoke two tablespoonfuls of oil, a bayleaf, a clove, a pinch of salt. Set over a

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Brussells sprouts, cauliflower and cabbage are in season. Do not boil any of them. You may parboil them for five minutes, but thereafter put them in the oven to bake slowly. You may steam them in their own juice over a small flame or a slow fire. To steam or bake vegetables it is necessary to cover pot or casserole tightly. For flavor add a suggestion of garlic, a few bayleaves, allspice, a clove or an onion. The dish goes well wish mashed potatoes, rolled raw wheat, steamed wheat. A little cheese may be grated over any baked vegetable dish to give it taste. Pastry or sweets never go well with dishes of this nature, not even a bread pudding.

Grape-fruits are plentiful and one-half of a pomolas is sufficient for breakfast.

Those who cannot take grape-fruit on account of their teeth may draw the juice through a straw, or they may use a few figs and a few raisins instead.

Pomegranates are about gone; even grapes are going fast, still there are English grapes and pineapples that may be obtained, al

strange that so much more has been found hoarded up and stored away to force high prices, while in many localities products go to waste because of the lack of necessary means to move them.

Some are inclined to think the power to change conditions lies in the ballot but how can that be when the ballot-box continues to record the same number of spittle-lickers?

Some envious people still find fault as to the carload of European gifts to President and Mrs. Wilson. The shipment consisted of about forty large boxes. Although gifts we should remember the enormous amount of duty paid.

Some cynics hold that the "League of Nations" is the result of a leak in nations--who tapped the wires?

Some democratic leaders compare voters to children who cry for new toys and soon tire of old ones.

A guilty man fears discovery, and our leading parties already express their fear as to the probability of a third party. Why not? The Eternal Triangle is now quite popular.

Some of the reasons making it difficult for Americans to seek change on foreign shores. is because our cousins beyond the great waters think we have spent enough of our hard earned cash, and want us to "keep the change."