A practical cook and text book for general use

We hear of the new woman, but she has not yet appeared and never will until the present woman creates a new order of things. Unless a decided change is made, we shall continue to produce the same old style of inebriate and criminal, the same quality of half made infants that never "come to stay,'' and a great multitude of unbalanced mental and physical humanity from similar material more elaborately prepared than ever before. From the food of the world is created its people, and it almost seems as if the table of modern civilization had reached the acme of absurdity and unphysiological inconsistency. FARMYARD SLAUGHTER AND KITCHEN DISSECTIONS. There are few who have considered this branch of the food supply question. From its association with every day hfe, it has become second nature to kill a chicken, fish, lamb or pig and dissect it, often regardless of the presence of women and children. Many a woman is called upon to kill and dress the domestic fowls she has fed, and cared for, and that the children have regarded as almost human. A little later they assist in their capture and confinement for sentence and execution, and still later are taught to slay them. The mother or her assistant dissects them fdissection, the completion of the process culminating at the table, where each one, from the parents to the wee toddler with his "wish bone," have dissected and left but the skeleton of the once living creature humanely treated and carefully fattened for slaughter. Young boys are encouraged to array themselves in the panoply of a hunting and fishing outfit; with pockets laden with fishhooks, powder and shot they march away like soldiers to the battlefield, for a few hours' or a day's sport in stream or forest. The fleet-footed and swiftwinged creatures flee upon the approach of these, to them, monsters. But it was not so from the beginning of crea- tion. Beasts, birds and every living creature were friendly with man. The poet Ovid, after describing the cruelties inflicted upon animals in order to appropriate their flesh as food, says : " Not so the golden age who fed on fruit, Nor durst with bloody meals their mouths pollute. Then birds in airy space might safely move, And timorous hares on heaths securely rove ; Nor needed fish the guileful hooks to fear, For all was peaceful, and that peace sincere." Instinctive fear has displaced love in the animal race, and to flee on the approach of man is their method of protection, to remain, even to guard their young often proving the death or capture of their family. There is a surplus of cruelty born into this world and developed after it gets here by and through the unrecognized influences in the home life. And this is one of the immense problems, connected with dissection and vivisection of animals in schools and educational institutions, that the humane world will ere long be called upon to discuss. While mentally investigating the subject, the " Report of the American Humane Association on Vivisection and Dissection in Schools" was received. The testimony of eminent educators is not lacking in showing the barbarity and the baleful influence of dissections in schools, to say nothing of the diabolical practice of vivisection. To give emphasis to my thoughts and for the sake of application a few opinions selected from hundreds are briefly quoted. Prof. Geo. Wilton P'ield of Brown University, Providence, R. I., says : '* It is not advisable to kill, dissect or vivisect any of the red blooded animals in the presence of young children." Yet this kind of dissection is carried on in our kitchens, and the childrjen are witnesses. They are also familiar with the crimson current that follows the carving of rare roast beef at the table.