STAY IN THE BACKYARD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1937, Page 6

STAY IN THE BACKYARD.

As a working man who appreciates a square meal. 1 feel it incum-bent upon me to take up my pen in defence of "Stay in Your Own Backyard."' who has been accused of extravagance, because he spends :S./(j per week on meat. I have heard of people who <;i n live. on fresh air and sunshine, and evidently your correspondent who sijns herself "A W'oiiian" is one of these. Being a mere man. 1 am not conversant with the juice of meat, but I should not imagine we would get mii'-li more than three pounds f,,r -I,'. Three pound.* of meat. S : Jd of beans and :id of potatoes per week. No wonder we \'ew Zea landers are such a healthy race when we can li \•• in such luxury. " S(,H"AI,'K MKAL. The letters appeariii'j' in the '"Star" on spending CI make us leali-e what a tenil.le thing it is in this age of pleuf \ ih.it we -hould have to take our belt- „,, another hole ~r two. and far from try in.' to live a- cheaph and on as little as «',. ~„„ t], ; ,i „,. are not ai.le to study how beM we can nourish and clothe ourselves and our children. The Idler of "A Woman" suggests unlimited pos.jhilit je*. A sage once said that it is possible to do without food entirely: one simply ha- to ''.it, less and less and in time one won't require food any more! If we do not wi-h 1" adopt this idea (and it doe- not appear too alluring). we can take other and ]e~- extreme -lep- !o make that. £1 go a long wav. F-'i , in-lain-c. for a beverage, instead of tea. cocoa, coffee. etc., we can drink Adam's ale. Pumpkins and turnips are ea.-ily grown, and if we have not the ground to grow them in. perhaps some kind neighbour would oblige us. If we cannot Iμ* vegetarians we could run down some rabbits. And merely as a suggestion, what's wrong with stifling a little water with (lie treacle to make it go further? Ha-n't il oeeui red I' , "Stay in Your Own Backyard' , that he could let his hair and wbi-ker- grow and cut <<ut n lot of other thing-, too. to'help t In- C\ i,!on»V Perhaps the darkie had it on u-. for he bccain<« famous as being a clever pro\ i.ler >he .nadi , the tl go a lon- way), but I woiildn'l ;i.l\ i-f anyone to emulate hi- method-, a- he « ;i« "awful 'fraid of being ketclied." Ol.lVKi; TVVKT.