The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1917-05-24
TO THE WOMEN OF
THE UNITED STATES.

Every woman can ender 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 armies and help
to supply food to those beyond the seas
by practising 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 pro-
duce 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 proper
ly, do not encourage overeatiDg or Of
fer excessive and wasteful variety. 1t
is her duty to use all effective methods
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 tor
meat. She must make it her business
to see that nothing nutritious is thrown
away or allowed to be wasted.
"Waste in any individual household
may seem to be Insignificant, but il
only single ounce OF edible food, on
the average, is allowed to spoil or be
thrown away in each of our 100000
homes, over 100000 pounds of mater
ial would be wasted each day. 1t takes
the fruit Of many acres and the work
Of many people to raise, prepare, and
distribute 464, 10000 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 ranches, in cotton
| fields, and in mills and factories.
Whenever a useful garment is need
lessly discarded material needed to
keep some one warm or dry may be
consumed merely to crafty q passing
fancy. Women would do well to look
upon clothing at this time more par
ticularly from the utilitarian point of
view.
Leather, too, is scarce and the
proper shoeing of armies calls for
great supplies Of this material. There
are only SO many pairs Of shoes in each
hide, and there is shortage OF ami
mails for leather as well as for meat
Anything that can be done TO encour-
age adults or children to take care Of
their shoes and make them last longer
means that so much more leather is
made available for other purposes.
employed women, especially those
engaged in the manufacture OF food or
clothing, also directly serve their
country and should put into their tasks
the enthusiasm and energy the impor-
tance OF their product warrants.
"While all honor is due to the wo-
men Who leave their homes to nurse
and care for those wounded IN battle,
no woman should feel that, because she
does not wear a nurses uniform, she is
absolved from patriotic service. The
home women OF the icountry, il they
will give their minds fully to this
vital subject OF food conservation and
train themelvess in household thrift,
can make OF the housewives apron
uniform of national significance.
Demonstrate thrift in your homes
and encourage thrift among your
neighbors.
"Make saving rather than spending
your social standard.
"Make economy fashionable lest it
become obligatory"