Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-12-17
NEW HOME CARD
FOR U. S. FOod Administration Adj
ditioaal Direction To First
HONS Card

t&HAuE A0fu
Everybody in Annapolis that is
everybody who is anybody has q
little Home Card Of the Food Ad-
ministration hanging in the window
These Home Cards were distributed
By Recruiting Officers" sent out BY
the Food Administrator in October
last. One was also given TO be hung
IN the kitchen.
With probably the idea that one is
never TOO old to learn, and there is
always something new to be learned.
the housewives are appealed 10 as fol-
lows.
Read again your original Home
Card If you have lost it, apply for
another to the Federal Food Admins
traitor for your State.
The Food Administration, aside from
those general directions, asks every
one to maintain rigidly minimum Of
at least:
One wheatless day each week and
one wheatless meal each day; the
wheatless day to be Wednesday. By
wheatless we mean to eat no wheat
products.
One meatless day each week. which
shall be Tuesday. and one meatless
meal each day. By meatless We mean
to eat no meat beef, pork, mutton,
veal, lamb; no preserved meat-beef
bacon, ham or lard
One porl1less day each week in addi-
ton to Tuesday, which shall be Satur-
day. BY porkless we mean no fresh
or saited pork. bacon, lard or ham.
Sugar.-You can materially reduce
sugar by reducing the use of candy
and sweet drinks We will make
every endeavor to see that the coun-
try is provided with a supply of house
hold sugar on the basis of three
pounds Of sugar for each person per
month. Do not consume more.
Human FOodstuffs Comprise Three
Principal Elements.
Protein Mainly present in meat,
beans, fish, poultry, milk. and to
some extent in grains
Fats-That is butter, cream. lard,
bacon, margarine, cooking fats, beans,
cottonseed oil and other vegetable
oils.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, sugar, po-
tatoes and other vegetables.
AS nation we eat and waste so per
cent more protein than we require
to maintain health. Therefore, we
can reduce the amount of meat we eat
without harm
We eat and waste 240 per cent more
fat than is necessary.
OF the carbohydrates we can JUS.
as well consume corn, oats and other
cereals as wheat. and we have abund-
ant supplies of potatoes and vege-
tables.
Do not limit your supplies OF milk
and table butter, but consume it all
Don't waste any.
You can reduce the consumption of
fats by reducing pastry and fried
foods
Remember the gospel of the clean
plate, the serving of small portions,
the purchase of less supplies.
Hoarding person in the United
States who buys more foodstuffs than
he customarily keeps at home in peace
times is defeating the Food Admins
tration in its purpose to secure a just
distribution of food and in its great
endeavors to reduce prices. The
boarding of food in households is not
only unnecessary. as the government
is protecting the food supply of our
people. but it is selfish and is cause
of high prices.
Such actions multiplied by thou
sands increase the demands upon our
railways for cars, and already, be-
cause of our military demands, it is
with extreme difficulty we can now
move the vitality necessary food to
markets.
There is much insidious propaganda
in the country against conservation
and increased production. All oppo-
sition to these services is direct as
sistance to the enemy.