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Show 1 . After her guests had risen she told the servants of her loss, and they in ' turn looked through tho kitchen with-! with-! out any results. They finally came to the conclusion that it has been thrown into the pail with the rest of the refuse from the dinner .and sent down to be emptied. The owner of the brooch notified the superintendent of her apartment building build-ing and he requested tho janitor to search through all the garbage pails. In the course of the search the jewel was found, but something far more Interesting In-teresting was discovered. In going through the pails the janitor jani-tor counted 80 whole loaves of bread which had been allowed to get stale and then were thrown away. In addition there were enough scraps and slices of bread from the pails of this one apartment house alone to feed 80 families. riousewives, consider such a situation situa-tion as this! It is nothing short of criminal that with bread eight and ten cents a loaf such outrageous wastage should be occurring right here in town where there are families going hungry hun-gry for want of sufficient food. You are called upon as a part of tho duty to your country to eliminate wastage wast-age of any kind and every kind from your home. This incident is cited to show the amount of bread thrown out in only one big apartment house in New York. What do you suppose is the average daily wastage going on in all our apartment houses and private homes? The amount would probably stagger you if you could get even a fair estimate. esti-mate. There Is only one way to slop it. That is for each one to do her share in eliminating it in her own home. It is no use saying, "Well, but we really waste very little." You think you waste only a trifle, but it is your little added to others' little which makes up the gigantic total. 00 |