The potato, as truly as bread, may be called a 'staff of life.' Men have lived in health upon it for many months without any other food save oleomargarine.

Its protein, though small in amount, is most efficient in body-building, its salts are varied in kind and liberal in amount, and it furnishes a large amount of very easily digested fuel besides.

It is at its best when cooked in the simplest possible way--baked or boiled in its skin.

Nevertheless we are not absolutely dependent upon the potato." "Alas," said the housewife, "this doesn't tell me what to cook for dinner!" "Patience, Madam, we shall see about that." The fact that starch is present is what makes the potato seem so substantial.

But bread, rice, hominy, in fact, all cereal foods can supply starch just as well.