Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-11-27

Notwithstanding the universal In
crease In the cost Of living, and
DESPITE the embargo on luxuaies, the
prices of California fruits and vege'
tables are very little higher, If any,
then they were this time last year
In Honolulu Here are few prices,
picked up at random at the best
stalls at the fishmarket this morning.
Cauliflower is plentiful at 10 to 25
cents a head; cabbage, cents a
pound; celery, firm, white heads and
stalks. 10 to % cents; onions, cents
a pound; potatoes, pounds for 20
cents; sweet potatoes, 10 pounds for
Is cents. or a bag holding So pounds
for $3.50; sQuashes, rs to 80 cents
piece. All these prices are on coast
vegetables, and are just about what
they were last Thanksgiving week.
California oranges, very large, 8
cents a piece; raisins, in bulk, 10
cents a pound pears, 10 cents a
pound; fresh California grapes, 10
cents a pound; apples, 3 pounds for
% cents; cranberries. % cents
pound.
These cranberries are far from
uniform in size, but they are juicy,
and apparently sound. A good sub
stitute for cranberry sauce may be
made Of the island roselle berries.
Roselles are used by Mrs. James Rus
sell at the Y. w. c. A. all the time
instead of cranberries, and they will
appear on her menu for the Y. w. c.
A. Thanksgiving dinner Wednesday.
Island oranges, too, are much
cheaper than California oranges, be-
ing 25 cents a dozen for good, sound
fruit, and island grapes are To- cents
q pound against Is cents for the
California variety.
Island turkey is temptingly good
this year at As cents live weight and
so and So cents dressed, the higher
price being for specially fed fowls
from the Parker ranch. Cold storage
turkey is selling at all the markets
at from As to so cents a pound; cold
storage chickens 40 to IS cents
island chicken, dressed, at the Metro
politan is selling at from 80 to 90
cents pound. Turkeys seem plenti'
full this year, but island chickens are
hard to get at any price.
The patriotic food conservationist
however, does not consider the price
of food when she is planning her
Thanksgiving dinner. What she takes
into consideration is whether or not
the food she is using could be used to
better advantage by our Allies, or
by the men at the front. After that
she considers whether 1t takes up
cargo space that might be saved for
a better purpose, and whether by its
use she is discouraging home produc-
ton of the same food, or perfectly
good substitute. Then she considers
whether the money she puts into 1t
would be worth more to the country
if she gave it to the Red Cross, and
last of all, she considers whether her
own pocketbook can stand the eX'
pense.
Mrs. Russell, of the Food Commits
son, says thatpit costs the Y. W. c. A.
SIS a day more to have the wheatless
day, but she goes right on with 1t
Just the same because she feels, as
do the directors Of the association,
that it is the duty of every woman to
save the white flour. The additional
cost is not so much for the brown
bread and corn bread used as for the
substitutes for pies and cakes, all
of which are more expensive than the
pie or cake themselves.
The Y. w. C. A. Thanksgiving din
ner, which will be served Wednes'
day, November %, is very much
simpler than the dinner for last year,
but It will also cost less, the price
last year being Is cents a plate.
while this year it Is only so cents.
Last year the girls who ate their
Thanksgiving dinner at the Y. W. G.
A. had
Fruit Cocktail
Celery Olives Sweet Pickles