Show ENGLAND ON W ARRA Mary Boyle OReilly y Tells How Housewives Are Drilling Themselves in Economy By MARY BOYLE OREILLY Staff Special LONDON England Aug 5 England 5 bereft of or two thirds two s its shipping Is consuming as little as possible t I The world hears much of German war but the five million Englishwomen now existing on separation allowances bravely Keep leep their own counsel Silence is more heroic because school systems long considered unsurpassed consistently ignored an all important subject ECONOMY Before the war the average German spent a year the average Briton b Now Britain must come down to the frugal German scale If It the British are to wear e their enemies e out oH 1 A THE WAR HAS BECOME ONE OF Oli ECONOMIC ENDURANCE ENDURANCE-A A WAR OF OP NONCOMBATANTS NONCOMBATANTS' Twenty million people must work harder to support the ten million who million who are making armament instruments of or death Women must be thrifty facing this financial parallel One womans woman's hat Four steel helmets One new dres dress Four service rifles One fur coat One machine gun Every penny saved helps England every penny wasted aids Germany THAT'S WHY HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ENGLISHWOMEN GATHER WEEKLY TO LEARN HOW TO SAVE These war var talks are deadly practical There is no tommyrot We must pull in declares the woman economist sometimes economist sometimes a college professor sometimes a level levelheaded headed duchess We must make up our minds to be poor The government is purchasing supplies and services the public public cannot cannot claim them q War Var housekeeping is the order of the day Waste Yaste always folly is in war time treason Raw Haw potato peelings thrown away cost 25 cents a week per family family- a year for the nation If It every ery man wastes a match a day and every woman one the price of wasted matches would buy three thrle torpedo boat destroyers With sugar at 13 cents a pound if all consumers use one less lump limp a a. day the years year's saving will wili be he Patriotic housewives mix coke into their coal a and d when the fire burns red add chalk to hold and radiate heat War Var mothers have learned a pennys penny's worth of or oatmeal and milk is w worth worth rth of or bread and coffee Housewives are becoming adept at pot cooking stuffing stone jars of meat stew pudding and vegetables into one great kettle Middle class families are living as their grandparents lived in a simpler time The war that teaches England to save will pay for itself says the e economist I |