Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-10-08
THE SOLDIER WOMAN
Letters From Washington Woman To
Her Sister In Michigan.
Washington, d. c.

Dear Edith:
Well, I'm still studying the new
Home Card" given me by the Food
Administration when l signed my
food pledge. have written you OF
the first two items in which our econ
omy and substitution is asked wheat
and meat.
The next three are milk, fats and
sugar.
We are asked to use all OF the milk.
waste no part of it, The reason
given is TO the point The Home
Card" says: THE children must have
whole milk; therefore, use less cream.
There is a great waste of food by not
using all skim and sour milk"
don't think you and / need any
more logical reason for milk economy
than that
AS for the fats-well. nobody seems
able to deny that we are the greatest
fat MASTERS in the world We have
got to stop it, because fat is food As
the Home Card" reminds us, butter
is needed for the growth and health
of our youngsters, therefore, we are
not asked to stint the use of butter
on the table But we are asked to
substitute other fats for it in our
cooking. other fats are just as good.
We are also asked to use less fried
food That will be good for every
body For me and my house it will
not be hard, for we never did like
greasy stuff to eat 1t will be doubly
easy when we remember that if every
body in this country saves an ounce
of animal fat day it will mean to-
tai yearly saving of $4,000 tons.
We don't realize what our little bit
of waste or our little bit of savings
here and there means, until some food
expert figures out such an aggregate,
do we?
We are also remainded by the
Home Card" that soap contains fat
and are asked not to waste a scrap of
it, Melt the leftover bits and use for
soap. Shall we try it-you and / who
have agreed to be Soldier-W Women in
fact as well as in name?
The last food economy on the
"Home Card" is sugar.
use less candy and sweet drinks.
Use less sugar in tea and coffee. Use
honey, maple syrup and dark syrups
for hot cakes and waffies, without
butter or sugar Do not frost or ice
cakes. Do not stint the use of sugar
in putting up fruits and jams" The
Home Card says though, "They may
be used in place of butter"
And the reason that We should use
less sugar is that it is scarce in
Europe.
know that the health of my family
will be improved if less sugar be
eaten. for we eat too much sweet.
Billy, especially, just piles sugar in
little mounds all over his fruit |
never noticed how much he did eat
until | began to study the Home
Card" Well, dear Edy, he is going
to stop it, SO are the others in this
precious nest of mine We can get
our energy from other foods as com
pletely as we can from sugar, and a
substitute will work no hardship.
Tomorrow, dear girl, I'll write you
what the Home Card has to tell us
about vegetables, fruit and fuel BY
then you will doubtless have received
your own from the Food Administra
ton and can study it at closer range.
Jack is at my elbow with mis-
chievous twinkle in his eyes as he ac-
cepts my permission to look over my
shoulder
: Just the same he's proud that I'm
going to be a real Soldier-Woman.
He sends his love. and so does
(CiQuodl FRANCES