The Washington times., 1916-11-14
WARON WASTE PLAN
OF WOMEN'S CLUBS
Food and Fuel to Come Under
More Careful Observance Of
Washington Housewives.
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buying means special provision for
Most cook books and most woman's
pages in the newspapers keep harping
on what to do with left overs Doesn't
IL ever occur to anyone that In we'll
managed home there ought not to be
this tremendous struggle with left
overs?
French System Good.
THE French know better than we
how to buy. They buy for the mouths
of. the eaters. We buy what we have
been accustomed to, even in the face
of higher prices. Some day we Will
learn, when we want one egg TO puy
one egg: when we want one lamb chop
to buy one lamp chop.
81 have exact information about
prices abroad, and ] can prove that
prices there, even in war time, are
lower than prices in this country.
Instead OF trying to 20 to markets,
which takes time, and to find cheap
which costs money In the long
run, some day we will learn to buy from
reliable dealers and trust him to get
good commodities for the price we pay.
Engage Competent Cook.
why not engage competent domes-
tics? Then why not let them go about
their work as any other experts? don't
ask my cook how abe prepares dish.
that Is her business. l don't know how
my clothes are manufactured, or how
any of the other things l buy are pro-
duced. do r.
But, most striking of all. Mrs.
Thompson's assertions-all the more
striking because they come IRON .
and lectured on domestic economies
High prices? The cost of living Is
higher usually because we keep on
buying the things we know are high
When | reopened nv home more thar
a month ago I awaited the nrsi
months bills with fear and trenholm
Meanwhile | tried to keep down ex-
penses by not buying the particular
things / knew to be high.
Cost Was the Same.
"Lo and behold. when the bills came
in I found 1t had cost me to run the
same household, feed as many people
and feed them as well. Just exactly
what 1t did for ~ correspondents
month a year ago! 49,. NJ.
Thompson does not recognize that there
is a trend toward higher prices.
But It does mean" she continued
that we may learn valuable lessor
In conservation by AVOIDING "aste
That is responsible for the high cost o
living In most homes. Any BODY o
women who hope to cope with higher
prices easily can combat them by sim
pie methods of intelligent buying anC
avoidance of wastage,
II am tired OF hearing middlemen AM
producers assailed. They are Ameri
can citizens. Usually their margin o
profit is small enough. When tn
things that enter into making a produc
cost more. the product must follow eco
nomic law and cost more"
one added point scored by Mrs
THOMPSON again-t cooperative buy
ing by retail Is the item of what sh'
terms social value"
French Know Term.
The French know the term. tn
/ American economists class II will
utility. Take ".e case of the house
wife who works all day. sets he
| house in order. attends to her chill
dren, then sets forth with her mar
ket basket on her arm to lug hom
| a cargo OF articles from some centra
distributing point OF the oo-opera
/ tive enterprise.
"She fails to realize that her tim
| is worth while. She fails to realiz
that the time might be used to bette