| Show I I Sacrifice the Sweet T Tooth I By Biddy Bye i S Once more wa war wag knocks at the kitchen door When Shen first war entered the American kitchen his command was save ave Again h he came when the cellar bins and pantry pantry pan pan- try shelves were laden with the rich fruits of ot summer and this time his word was more urgent urgent conserve conserve And now war appears In the kitchen a third time time and and his voice olce rings with sternness sternness sacrifice sacrifice I At each call of f war the American housed houseWife ife ife has i responded splendidly I When the command was saver save she shecut shecut he cut down the waste waste excess excess food tood on the table and waste food in the kitchen succeeding so well that In Chicago the result was indicated by the fact that in a single month the garbage was wasO cut almost O in half ei When the command and was waz conserve i the housewife rallied her skill and her her- labor labor and md put In the late summer days in a fine frenzy of preserving jelling pickling and drying the abundant crops of oC fruits and vegetables From all Indications in indications indications In- In no approaching winter has ever before met such a bulwark of stored food as now adorns the cellars and storeroom shelves of oC American homes homp r Now ow the command is sacrifice Sacrifice sugar France our all ally needs ton tonof on of oC sugar to carry earry her through two months Sugar is heat and in the tile form most easily assimilated b the tho body Science has proved that 98 93 per cent of the total energy in a given amount of oC sugar be become ome available in the body as heat heat heat-an an andr energy Taken in reasonable as food tood It delays delay fatigue fatigue- and Increase the working powers In the United States it Jt is estimate that each adult citizen consume a lr little more than than- four ounces a France is on a starvation ration oC uj gar gar barely barely one ounce a da day To maln maia tam tain her armies In fighting conditio condition and her civil in tc population power endure the war strata straits and keep the industrial support of oC the armie 1 her sugar ration should be Fe doubled If It It Is even to be kept at its present preen Insufficient standard the United States State must share sharo its sugar supply andsen tons to France at once It will cost us the sacrifice ot of ou national sweet ee tooth I S nall American c women who ha have ha s 5 it I bravely met wars war's other demands arnot ar aren not going to shirk and I this slight draft on their kitchens an It their personal luxuries I |
