Show W war ar restoring kitchen to its pioneer 4 place as center of the home L by H E BARNARD i the war has restored the kitchen to its pioneer importance as the center of the home A woman is rich or poor nowadays according to her kitchen economies economies a 4 patriot or a slacker according to hor her kitchen activities i 1 for years kitchen work has been losing its importance in home making housewives have lost interest in cooking and have found work in the home how many housewives will confess 1 I love to make salads but I 1 loathe now comes wars necessities and all kitchen wory work even conscientious dishwashing becomes a patriotic service food administrator hoover has told us over and over again how the little savings in the kitchen multiplied by the kitchens in this country will conserve enough food to feed our suffering allies many women who for years have been content to leave their kitchen in charge of a servant rediscovered that it is an interesting place durino during the long hours they put in in canning 0 and conserving food for winters use they see the drudgery of kitchen work through the clearer glasses and realize as they have never done before that itis not the work but the way the work is dono done that makes it a servile task after all the kitchen ia is only a practical working laboratory in which the cook takes complex chemical compounds such as meat and flour and turns them into other t I 1 compounds which are transformed in the wonderful laboratory of the body into heat and energy to be able to prepare food in such a way that it is wholly satisfactory for the blodys needs is more than an art it is a teal real science our war for democracy is reaching down into every home it is rescuing us ua as a people from the depths of selfishness and carelessness into whish which wo we 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 trib ution to the immense effort necessary to bring us victory |