The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-07

It is no exaggeration to say tina
we women Of America are going
/ forth" to meet a grisly bridegroom
possible world famine, quite pos
sible food shortage. Our Presiden
has declared the immediate need o.
food control, Mr.. Hoover is crap
ping with the problems OF Foot
Conservation and Food Efficiency, il
is evident that food regulation we
must have. The market manipulation
the gambler, and the wastrel must
be suppressed.
Each to his own fields of opera
tons, the lawmakers to theirs, "the
ten virgins" to theirs. 1t should be
our work, we women, to SUPPRESS the
wastrel. In the large sense, we
housewives-and non-housewives-
nearly all of us have been profit
gates in the matter of food; without
intention, because of ignorance, or
of carelessness. or because it seemed
pleasant or fashionable, we have
been wastrels. How many Of Us saw
any real need Of the two extra
courses we added to a dinner? Or
really enjoyed the superfluous su-
perabundance of the hotel or res
taurant menu? And how many Of US
have really watched over the gar
bage pail, or have enforced a sensi-
BILE economy in our kitchens? And
how many of us when became pani-
cky and boarded supplies?-the
most senseless and selfish of pro-
ceedings! Even now, when every
paper is headlined with, "Conserva-
ton of the Wheat Supply" Waste in
Wheat Products" ETC., how many of
us are considering healthful, nour-
ishing substitutes for the wheat
loaf?
The all-important wheat-loaf
which has risen so greatly in price
but not in bulk! Which must be
guarded by law and by individual
effort. It behooves US to think seri-
ously Of substitutes for wheat bread,
and the most reasonable and easily
obtainable are rice and cornmeal.
"But l don't know that rice and
cornbread are good for Children. a
woman said to me.
She was surprised when l told her
that the grain Of the rice plant
forms a larger part of the human
food than the product Of any other
plant, and is not only the bread of
entire nations, but, in several coun-
ries, is almost the exclusive diet.
She looked really interested when l |
old her that / had been reared on
ice, fish, vegetables, and fresh
ruI-that from babyhood until
'irlhood I had been practically a
title Jap among the japanese, and
rom girlhood until young woman
God / had lived south of Mason and
'ixon's line where corn-pone runs
lose second to wheat bread.
"But the children don't like rice
i don't like it myself" she object
d, land I've never eaten corn
one."
II don't like rice either, not the
sort Of mess that we
merican make of RICE" agreed,
but, cooked in the Oriental way,
love it better than bread. have
two meals day. write my
ovels on it-anyone can learn to
ke it. It should be boiled as you
oil a potato, in plenty of sailed
alter and the water poured off
hen the grains are tender. It is de-
cious then, and can be fashioned
ito a dozen tempting dishes-you
IN do as many things with it as you
IN with potato And real
not the sweetened short
Ike thing that Northerners call
:orn-bread," is good, both tasty ,
i'd wholesome. Do you suppose that /
urdy little Boy Scout of yours, or 1
'ur little girl who goes about with ]
flag pinned to her dress, would OBJ
ct to one rice day and one corn
me day week if you told them :
ey were doing their ''bit'' to win ,
Re war? Not they! They are good
ldiers, our children. Those three or :
ur .loaves of broad each week null
piled by thousands of families will ,
nserve our wheat supply by just :
much, and the children not a whit :
e worse for it. :. =. And you and
'ur daughter and your daughter
law, and your neighbours contin-
mt, suppose, every time you lunch !
or dined at a restaurant, you