Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-01
WOMEN IN HOMES
CAN AID nation
Not Necessary for Them to Aban-
don Domestic Duties, Says Z.
u. S. Official.
URGES THRIFT AS WATCHWORD
Secretary Of Agriculture Houston
Declares Housewife Should See
That Nothing Nutritious
F-.-s Is Thrown Away.

How every woman, without leaving
her home, can aid the nation in the
direction of producing and conserving
agricultural products, is told from the
viewpoint of Uncle Sam in a statepent
of Secretary of Agriculture Houston.
Secretary Houston says:
Every woman can render important
service to the nation in its present
emergency. She need not leave her
home or abandon her home duties to
help the armed forces. She can help
to feed and clothe our arnfes and help
to supply food to those beyond the
seas by .practicing effective thrift in
her own household.
Every ounce Of food the housewife
saves from being wasted In her home
all food which she or her children
produce in the garden and can or pre-
serve-every garment which care and
skillful repair make it unnecessary to
replace-all lessen that households
draft on the already insufficient world
supplies.
ITO save food the housewife must
learn to plan economical and properly
balanced meals which, while nourish-
ing each member of the family prop
erly, do not encourage overeating or
offer excessive and wasteful variety.
1t is her duty to use all effective meth
DDS to protect food from spoilage by
heat, dirt, mice, or insects. She must
acquire the culinary ability to utilize
every bit of edible food that comes into
her home She must learn to use such
foods as vegetables, beans, peas, and
milk products as partial substitutes for
meat. She must make 1t her business
| to see that nothing nutritious is thrown
away or allowed to be wasted.
No Waste Insignificant.
waste in any individual household
may seem to be insignificant, but If
only a single ounce of edible food, on
the average, is allowed to spoil or be
thrown away in each of. our 2O,OOO,OOO
homes, over 100000 pounds of mate
rial would be wasted each day. 1t
|: takes the fruit of many acres and the
work of many people to raise, prepare,
and distribute 464,OOO,0OO pounds of
food year. Every ounce of food
thrown away, therefore, tends also to
waste the labor of an army of busy
citizens.
Clothing is largely an agricultural
product and represents the results OF
labor on the sheep ranges, in cotton
fields. and in mills and factories
Whenever useful garment is need
lessly discarded material needed tC
keep some one warm or dry may be
consumed merely to crafty passing
fancy. Women would do well to lOOk
upon clothing at this time more par
ticularly from the unitarian point OF
view.
Leather, too, is scarce and the
proper shoeing of armies calls fol
great supplies of this material. There
are only so many pairs Of shoes IL
each side, and there is a shortage o.
animals for leather as well as fol
meat. Anything that can be done t
encourage adults or children to taxi
care of their shoes and make then
last longer means that so much NOR
leather is made available for othe
purposes.
Employed women, especially thos'
engaged in the manufacture Of foo
or clothing, also directly serve thei
country and should put into their task
the enthusiasm and energy the i'm
portance of their product warrants.
i Housewives Apron a Uniform.
"While all honor is due to tn
women who leave their homes to nurs
and care for those wounded in battle
no woman should feel that, becaus
she does not wear nurses uniform
she is absolved from patriotic service
The home women of the country,
they will give their minds fully to thi
vital subject of food conservation an
train themselves in household thrift
can make of the housewives apron
uniform of national significance.
Demonstrate thrift in your home
and encourage thrift among you
neighbors.
make saving rather than spendin
your social standard.
Make economy fashionable lest
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