Does a cheap diet really pay says Miss Loewus
A Towanda Pa. girl claims twenty weeks on a 50 cent weekly food budget with peanut butter bread and a boiled potato menu. Experts question sufficiency and calories count, noting regional price differences and the need for variety and milk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clara S. Loewus
Towanda
Ithaca Conservatory of Music
Cornell
Ithaca
New York
Teachers College
Department of Agriculure
Washington
Era Bites and Meals in Simple Household Guide
Menu style outline lists breakfast with cornmeal mush bittered toast and drink. Dinner features beef stew with onions potatoes and carrots, fried potatoes, rice pudding and liquor. Supper repeats Y M C A Ambrosia with baked beans bread and butter and stewed prunes.
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Y. M. C. A. Ambrosia
Daysey Mayme and Her Folks Lose Faith in Print
A reflection on Daysey Mayme Appleton who once trusted the printed word for guidance and savings but loses faith after clergymen’s health certificate demands for marriage. Her proposed courtship turns comic as she tests a suitor with medical questions before his proposal. England’s censorship of drama pushes Fielding to novel writing.
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Dr. Meltzer
Rockefeller Institute
Ber
Mayme Appleton
Daysey Mayme
New York
England
Fielding
Walpole
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Chittenden
Yale
Cavanagh
Stanley Hall
Burgundy
American College
Irving Fisher
Wisconsin
Columbia
Department of Domestic Science
Springfield
Mass
Harriet Sutton
Chicago
Francis Bb
Garside
Winifred Worth
Fooman
World Color Printing Co
Lega, Ma
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