There are many housekeepers who feel that their bill of fare would instantly become extremely limited were they to adopt vegetarian ideas.

There are few better dinners--especially for children--than a good basin of soup, with plenty of bread; yet, as a rule, there are few housekeepers who would know how to make vegetarian soup at all.

In our present work we have given a list of sixty-four soups.

At any rate, here is no lack of variety, as small housekeepers in this country are not famed for their knowledge of soup making, even with gravy-beef at their disposal.
On looking down this list it will be observed that in many cases cream--or, at any rate, milk--is recommended.

We can well imagine the housekeeper exclaiming, "I don't call this economy." This is one point about which we consider a few words of explanation necessary.