Show Less Than Twenty-five Twenty Cents Covers Cost of Meal for President Hoover I I WASHINGTON April 23 MV-A MV A A AI I 25 cent piece with the edge shaved sha off oft covered the cost cast of or a a. luncheon cooked today for President Hoover Hoo The meal moal for a party of eight prepared prepared prepared pre pre- pared In honor of ot President and Mrs Hoover Hoo cost 18 cr or cents forthe for forthe forthe the presidential plate The Girls Scouts' Scouts little house I quaint green shuttered green shuttered White House neighbor erected to typify the more modest American homo home was scene of the thrifty luncheon i iThe The menu was I Split Spilt pea soup 18 cents toast 5 cents meat and rice In loaf 40 cents brown sauce 3 cents baked potatoes 9 cents cabbage lettuce and carrot salad 29 9 cents butter table and cooking 18 cents lemon bread pudding 30 cents lemon sugar milk for far tea 8 cents whole wheat muffins 21 1 cents Even the dash o of salt lt and pepper and th the few slivers silvers of onion in the meat loaf loa were computed Dainty indeed was the meals meal's ap ap- The service followed approved White House etiquette Louise Erk tall Girl Scout daughter of at Representative Representative Representative I Erk of Penns Pennsylvania had I been instructed to serve sere the president president president dent first with Shirley Schafer small Girl Scout daughter of tive Schafer of Wisconsin waiting to place plate the food tood before Mrs Hoover Hoo Just a second later The TIle primary purpose of the low cost meal was the launching of or Better Homes week eek But there entered also the thought of a menu appropriate for the a average American home whose income may ma perhaps have ha been slightly impaired In the general depression |