The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-03-07
TGe7;171al God
Measures ~ eeded III
u. S.=SQys Mrs. Scott

would have gone INTO the garbage
think their eyes and minds were
lcpened s
wish there was some way toopen
/ the eyes and minds or every Ameri-
can woman to- the real need right
4 nov for practicing economy in the
4 kitchen.
sOf course. the effects OF the war
have forced some households TO
change their former extravagant and
/ wastefuI ways, but in the average
family the same old methods areysti1l
1 being used ISL ts .8
1T he same old foolish notions about
the necessity for having high priced
foods, are being bowed down to. Only
last week, on my regular tour through
the Pniladelphi M arkets, found ex.
ce!!ent foodstnffs OF various kinds SO
low priced That 1 wondered why every
& woman who really wants to help in
making income serve MS far as pos
! s:blc shouldn't take a few hours one
lday-a week and so 10 market.
Not only would this be profitable
trip, but1a pleasrrable one, also For
1t is educational and enjoyable TO see
all the fruits, vegetables and salad
stuffs, and to increase ones fund OF
Z knowledge as we'll as save pennies.
nickels and dimes on food expendi-
! ture Il 81
III some women gave to marketing
one-fourth the time they devote to
movies there would be more happy
homes and more healthy grown folks
and children.
| nc every woman made it the first
OF her duties to provide economically
for her table and took personal in
inc hot inc SicIx.
ed, divorce courts swould not be so
busy and there would not be so much
immortality in orr citles-and our
smaller towns too.
es, the influence OF the we'll sup
piled and tempting dinner table.
spreads IA out into our social life
and affects number of things which
we5sneYer stop to think OF as beins
thus affected
III ere we are at the tail end of
winter, and on every hand we see
people overlooking the winter foods
that should be used up before warm
weather comes and rushing to get
southern fruits and vegetables which
are not only high in price, but which
take away the edge of the appetite
for the home grown kind when these
come in due season.
Use Up Winter SUPPLIES. Il
Now lis the time to make use OF
all winter supplies which remain on
our shelves. Instead Of indulging in
Strawberries also cents a box, use the
preserves that were put up last fall.
II kept during the warm months these
Will spoil, many of them. and then
evil have q plenty OF our fresh
fruits. which. can be bought at reas-
enable prices.
Go through your pantry shelves
and take stock of your dried fruits!
and dried vegetables While the last
cold days are here make use OF ali
such.
Il know of many homes in which
such things carelessly are carried over
into the warm weather, aud then have
TO be thrown away because they be-
come unfit for food II
This is. waste of the wors. sort III
for every such an instance OF waste
the housewife who permits it could sect
before her vision &c some poor
might be spared - :+s.st such food, /
believe there would be less of such
.carelessness
But the best reasons for economy
in the kitchen is the economic one
That may sound like pun, though
1t isn't.
IF each household did away with
waste and extrayagance, those house
holds which are now suffering forf
want Of the needs of life would be
better supplied, and prices would, in 4
most instances. keep to lower levels
More than this. We would be heal-s
thier, for health is largely matter
of plain food. Il
SO, in peace. as we'll as wa1.. /
kitchen economy is big considera-i
ton