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Show Do Your Bit to Help the j Economy is the order of the day. Housewives have banded together to beat the high cost of living, and one of the first bombs fired from their gun, of self-defense Is the elimination of all wastage. From mistress to maid, all over the country, orders have been issued that no more food is to be thrown away. Every bit must bo utilized in some way or another. At last American women are beginning begin-ning to realize the ruinous folly of the constant wastage going on In their homes. p-' At last America i; waking up to the fact that we are recklessly throwing away hundreds of dollars' worth of food each day. oHI Criminal Loss. rfB An incident, called to our attention -IB. recently, illustrates clearly the extra- A. vacant wastage going on in our yH: homes. ijH In the course of a dinner given re- mm-, cently in one of our big city depart- Mm ment houses the mistress of the house MM took off a valuable brooch to show her "hH: neighbor. When he had looked at it uJH she very carelessly laid it on her plate .3H and before she realized it the plate was removed. |