13

Three Years Later

_February, 1, 1921_

An Added Chapter in Which Are Offered Twenty-one Suggestive Menus


After nearly two years with the American Red Cross in the Balkans I
return to find the little book has been carrying on in my absence--I
write this for the fifth edition--and my publishers insisting that I
must furnish some more menus. They affirm that there are many who do not
care to or cannot figure out their own.

After being so long under military discipline I obey now instinctively,
although I do not want to do this. But you know publishers. They say
that if there are menus for those who do not have the desire to compute
them, the usefulness of the book will be increased. Publishers are so
altruistic.

Now far be it from me to scorn the possibility of increased sales
myself. So I comply, and after you are reduced you will have the energy
and the increased keenness to scout around in the calories and make out
your own.

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A little of my Balkan experience in the reducing line may not be amiss.
In Albania, where I was stationed most of the time, life is very