Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-27
THE EMBARGO ON WASTE

THE EMBARGO ON WASTE
I"HE steps taken by the warning
nations of Europe to preserve
4 the food supply for their people
is a big object lesson in the pos
sIbilities of more thrifty living in this
respect, even in lands that are at
peace.
1t is said that the Kaiser and
Kaiserin are cutting down the expenses
of the imperial household and teach
ling the German people lesson in fru-
lgality. The standard of meals at court
lappears to be no higher than that of
many private families in Berlin. Both
at the front and in the palace in Ber-
lin the Kaiser lives with Spartan SIM
plicity. A favorite dish is thick SOUP
containing chopped meat. The Kaiserin
visits the kitchen every day, giving Or
ders and experimenting the cooking.
"One cannot live sumptuously while
our brave soldiers are making the
greatest sacrifices" she is reported to
have said.
While across the water many men,
of starvation, and in our own country
there are many needy ones, the state
ment is made that the average Amer
ican family wastes enough food in one
week to keep Belgian or a Pole alive
and in health for two weeks.
What will open the eyes of many
of our housekeepers to their extrava-
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war go unlearned? Do not these house
keepers know that waste is their badge
of incompetency? The really scientific
cook wastes nothing. Stale bread, cake,
left-overs of meats, potatoes and other
vegetables, cold cereals, macaroni, etc,
can all be made to reappear in forms
quite as appetizing as their original
ones. So say successful housekeepers,
at any rate. Husbands have not been
heard from on this point.
I'm the interests of good taste,
household economy, scholarship and
social relations" says the Spokane
Spokesman Review, mothers will do
we'll to push for a reform of the ex-
travagance in schoolgirls dresses"
What became of that movement to
help the South by wearing more cot
ton dresses?
Banks often take some of their own
medicine and try to save money. A
country bank about a year ago Install
ed wastepaper bailing machine, hav-
ing found that baled paper demanded
much better price than loose paper.
Now over half the janitor's wages
comes from this source.
The Scientific American says:
The fact that the loss from a
leaking water faucet is small should
not lead US TO neglect small leaks,
because by disregarding them we
tend to become slovenly in all
things Furthermore, small leaks
do not remain small The constant
| leakage of faucets wears small
passages through the seats and
| makes tightness impossible. The
| next thing then is new faucet
with the accompanying plumbers
| bill, which is VIGOROUSLY not small.
According to the United States De-
partment of Agriculture, the waste
produced in the process of canning
salmon is estimated to be from % to
so per cent. of the original weight of
the fish and over $2,000,O00 is the
value of this waste annually on the
Pacific Coast. The department sug-
gests that canneries might advan-
tageously dispose of their waste by
manufacturing 1t into fertilizer or fish
meal for poultry or cattle feeding.
A report comes from Puget Sound
that some of the big canneries are in
vestigating the proposition. and one or
two of them have already signiAed
their intention of erecting plants TO
overcome this waste and add to their
profits.
The more of this kind of waste-eli-
mination we practice in the United
States from now on, the better it will
be for all of us.