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all. In getting this amount OF
is only a starting point. Although
much of this food stuff so produced
will be used, a great deal will be
wasted if the women's clubs do not
again step in and take up the work
of food conservation.
Again this is where the club is al
ready effectively organized and cap
able of carrying on a systematic
campaign. Many clubs already have
home economic departments. These
will be extended in order to give 9TH
ers besides members the result of
study and Investigations along these
lines. Women must be taught how
to care for the excess of food pro-
duced in the garden spot in order
that it may not be wasted but be an
addition to the larder when winter
comes. To this end arrangements are
already being made by many clubs to
provide open meetings where experts
will demonstrate to housewives just
the right way to preserve the various
products of the garden. Since can
ming of fruit and vegetables is be-
coming so common in the home, more
than one club is looking for the best
form of a cooking outfit which may
be used by more than one family in
canning. One club intends to pur-
chase and loan to the community sew
eral of these outfits together with the
recipes and rules governing their use
which accompany the canning of the
various products. Intelligent COOP
GRAFTON of women in this large ques-
tion of food conservation is going to
be huge factor in adding to the re-
sources of the nation. In the small
est detail it is important; in the ag-
gregate it is enormous.
Further than this, when the minds
of women are being turned so earn
estly to production and conservation
of food, it leads them to inquire re-
garding waste in other lines. War
has always produced new fashions.
In this case it is very liable to pro-
duce a new fashion among women,
that of economy and common sense
in dress. Rapid changing of styles is
conducive to waste. When women
learn to consider these things in
great numbers, it will lead to a fash
ion which permits one to wear a
garment until it has really served a
useful period instead of discarding it
for one of no greater usefulness but
later style. A sudden falling off in
the purchases of women's wearing
apparel would not be conducive to
the best economic interests of those
engaged in business. but this change
will come slowly and will release for
war usage many materials which are
indispensable for the use of the army
And so, after all, the war period
will be in one sense a period of edu-
cation, check on extravaganza and
ignorance, a promoter of unity and
economy. Though the pressure will
be greater in some ways, it will be
less in others. 1t will tend to pro-
mote similar and healthier attitude,
to relieve, this keeping up with Liz
zie" idea which means living ahead
of ones means and laying up for one
self endless anxiety.
So far the work which women are
attempting is largely in their own un-
disputed area, the home. Later will
come the time in all probability when
many will be called to take the places
of men who have left the industrial
ranks for the field of actual warfare.
But when that time comes, women
will be ready for that also. The work
Of today is training and disciplining
them for the places they may be
called upon to take. There will be
no lack of volunteers when that call
comes, though it be to heavy manual
labor in the fields or highly trained
service in other departments of the
industrial world. The women of
America are simply waiting until
those services also are required and
they will be ready. But while they
wait they also work, the work that
lies nearest hand and which this pres
ent time demands.
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