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...household (two adults, five children, ten servants) its model for large families. Mrs. Roosevelt, who turned over to her daughter when she married the account books she kept as a bride, has always been a shrewd Hooverizer. She believes in such sustaining but economical standbys as baked beans, meat loaf, prune pudding and oatmeal. Last spring she entertained Mrs. Vincent Astor and some other ladies with a White House luncheon of which the main course was a soup made of spinach, dandelion greens and bacon grease-a dish reputedly in great favor with Andrew Jackson. She asked her guests afterwards...
...after the sudden short hush for grace, fell to gobbling and talking in a cheery, noisy hum and clatter as usual. The polished brasses gleamed by the big fireplace over which a great white bust of Homer looks down his nose at the carven verse: Back of the Loaf is the snowy Flour, back of the Flour the Mill. Back of the Mill the Wheat and the Shower, the Sun and the Father's will. The boys gobbled and talked, and a master noted that two places were vacant. Down a back stair of West Dormitory and out onto...
...Party (by Ivor Novello, produced by William A. Brady and Samuel F. E. Nirdlinger) is a slice of pure snob entertainment off the heel of the loaf. It projects a party given for a famed young London actress after her opening night: Lora Baxter in distant simulacrum of Tallulah Bankhead. Plot: Miss Baxter inveigles her old lover, now married, into kissing her. His little wife sees the kiss and tries to die by gulping all of what she thinks is Miss Baxter's cocaine. But it is only powdered sugar and her swoon is a symptom only of autosuggestion...
...that you can raise the price of raw materials a lot without raising much the cost of the products they go into. The 30? per bu. processing tax on wheat, just effective, was passed on in toto to bread consumers. In Chicago and downstate Illinois, a 1-lb. loaf rose from 5? to 6?. The 24 oz. loaf, price 10?, was reduced to 20 oz. New York City was hit in the breadbasket when a 1? and 2? increase was indicated. North Dakota bakers set the minimum price for a "standard" loaf of bread at 12?, a 1? rise...
...done with the wheat before it becomes flour in New York City; then recall what has to be added to and done with the resultant product before it becomes bread upon the table; you will be reminded of a few items of cost. You say in France a pound-loaf of bread sold for 4½?. We say in America in some places a pound-loaf sold for 4? (see paragraph 2)-made in the cleanest bakeries and the highest wage scale in the world. (Note:-Shoes from Czechoslovakia, light globes from Japan, shirts from England, all sell below American...