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Show I What America's Society Women of Wealth I : Are Doing To Correct Wastefulness Answering tho appeal of President Wilson for the conservation of food and for the correction of all forms of wastefulness and extravagance, the prominent society women of wealth In the United States are responding In every way possible. A few remarks from the country's wealthiest women will appear each day on the woman's page of the Standard. Mrs. Massey Holmes Kansas City, Missouri To be frugal with food I regard as tho most necessary and sensible action, in giving a party it Is not necessary to buy the most expensive rood nor to supply great quantities of candy and olives. Furthermore, the custom of holding parties in hotels and cafes is too wasteful for these days. Sitting up all night and eating after the theater the-ater Is another habit that never would be missed. A double saving can bo accomplished ac-complished by going back to old-fashioned table decorations of fruit which can be eaten. Fewer courses at dinner: din-ner: of course soup and a middle course, and then salad or desert not both seem enought for any one. Or the salad could appear as a vegetable. Potatoes are not needed as much as we have thought. My friends never dreamed that I used oleomargarine in the kitchen until I told them. When I go to market myself I find the greatest great-est saving in my household expenses. I find it advisable to purchase a quarter quar-ter of lamb Instead of chops or a leg of lamb separately. In buying roast beef, I havo the butcher take out the bone and roll the meat. The bone is useful for soup and. loses most of its value if cooked with the roasL Finally Final-ly I have found the most eqonomical way to live is never to go down town until it Is absolutely necessary. Women Wom-en who are always in the shops aro constantly buying things they do not need. Mrs. Robert S. Bradley Boston, Massachusetts In my home we areo n war rations, have less white bread and more corn-meal corn-meal and bran bread. My husband gets a war dinner frequently warmed-over warmed-over part of the time with more rice and fewer potatoes. There is no doubt that we have all been eating too much. Unquestionably a restricted diet will be good for many Americans. Mrs. John K. Ottley Atlanta, Georgia We are putting into our land a bumper crop of food-stuffs for man and beast, and hope to feed the numerous numer-ous tribe of both at our home. We shall can all the excess of corn, tomatoes, toma-toes, beans, okra, and spare fruit, too, and as sugarless as posible. Every available bushel of peas and beans will be dried. By a greater use of beans and "greens" we are now cutting down our household meat ration And my daughter and I are really enjoying our simplicity luncheons and dinners Socially we all eat too much. The best ' of this putting our households on a war basis by the women of America is that thereby we do our "bit" in a most effective way in the present emergency. emerg-ency. Moreover, the well-to-do American Ameri-can woman has especially been staggering stag-gering under the complexity of dally life. This imperative demand for simplification sim-plification gives us the chance to "scrap" the nonessentials. |
