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Show ) I N 7 WarRestoring Kitchen to Its Pioneer Place as Center of the Home ! By RE. BARNARD ' """.-. . ...... I , ' The war has restored the kitchen to its pioneer importance as the ffl 'center of the home. . A woman jis rich or poor nowadays according to her kitchen economies ; a patriot or' a slacker according to her kitchen "activities, "activi-ties, i . For years kitchen work has been losing its importance in home mak-mg. mak-mg. " Housewives have lost interest in. cooking and have found work in 'the liome. How many housewives will confess, "I love to make salads, but I loathe dishwashing?" Now comes war's necessities and all kitchen work; even conscientious dishwashing, becomes a patriotic service. Food A ' Administtor Hoover has told us over and over again how the little eav-7 eav-7 ings in th3 kitchen multiplied by tho 20,000,000 kitchens in this country 'ill conserve enough food to feed our suffering allies. ? Many women who for years have been content to leave their kitchen iia charge of a servant rediscovered that it is sn interesting place during ih hours thev tut in canning and conserving food for winter's use. iYheyi see the drudgery of kitchen work through the clearer glasses and liealize as they have never done before that it is not the work but the way jtbe work is done that makes it a servile task. After all, the kitchen is i only a practical working laboratory in which the cook takes complex chemical compounds, uch as meat and flour, and turns them into other compounds which are transformed in the wonderful laboratory of the tody into heat and energy. . . ' ' To be able to prepare food in such a way that it is wholly satisfactory satisfac-tory for the body's needs is more than an art ; it is a real science. Our war for democracy is reaching down into every home. It is rescuing us as a people from the depths of selfishness and carelessness into which w had fallen. It is reaching into every kitchen and transforming it into a place where labor becomes service and the simplest duty a definite contribution con-tribution to the immense effort necessary to bring us victory. i |