The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-24

Herbert Hoover, appointed by the
president as food dictator for the
United States. has asked the women
of America to observe a few rules
along lines of food conservation. 1t
is of some interest to know how some
of the leading Topeka women are
"hoovering" these days.
l asked Mrs. Mulvane about her
methods of following the advice of
the food observer, as she is much in
teiested in his plans, owing to her
position as head of the woman's
committee of this state, and the bust
ness of that organization is largely to
assist in food conserva ton. "In ar
ranging meals at my house, 1 furnish
a great deal of brown bread. We like
II and find that no hardship. 1 have
regularly a meatless meal every day.
If l omit the meat from dinner l find
substitute, such as cheese. L try to
save as much as can on flour, meats
and fats. l have given up the use
of butter for cooking purposes. 1
never buy real young meat, not be-
cause it is expensive. but because
young animals should not be killed.
The wool is needed from the sheep,
so that the lambs should not be
slaughtered for meat, and the skins
are needed from beef animals. We do
not need so much to practice econo-
my, so far as money is concerned,
but We do need to save the food for
our soldiers, who are now non-pro-
ducers. and for our allies. 1 never
use canned vegetables or fruits now,
because they can be shipped. but 1
use the perishable articles that are
in season. 1t is necessary for us to
consider the saving on shipping space
and use as much as we can of arti-
Giles that are not transporta BILE"
Mrs. Frank Merriam, who is in
charge of the woman's club luncheon
for October, was asked what she was
doing to follow the Hoover plans Il
have not yet fully settled from the
summer vacation and house cleaning,
and we are living frugally all the
time. but 1 expect to systematic a
scheme for conservation in my house.
! am beginning by planning a meat
less luncheon for the club on Octo-
Der 4, and we think we are going to
be able to arrange very satisfactory
meal without meat"
Mrs. J. d. Mcfarland. who has a
son in the army and who is deeply
interested in war relief work, says
that she is keeping rye bread on hand
all the time for those members of her
family who care for it. Il do not
think" she said. that we should de-
prive our families of food that is suit
able and agreeable to them, but We
can be very careful not to waste a
scrap of food, and we can use substi-
tutes for the articles needed for ex-
port whenever that is possible
Mrs. Harry Forbes, who has a coun-
try home where a great variety of
foods can be raised, and who is at the
head of the culinary department at
the state fair is using every effort to
conserve the foods to be shipped, just
the same as tho the articles were not
being produced in her own dooryard.
AT our house." she said, I'VE have
corn bread for dinner every evening.
We use very little meat, finding a
good substitute in eggs, and we make
use af q great many fresh vegetables. -
Mrs Lee Monroe, who is taking up
the plans laid out for women in war
service with much enthusiasm has
quite an elaborate plan for following
out the advice of Mr. Hoover. She
SAYS:
Well. while holding ourselves in
readiness TO keep the meatless. wheat
less. or fatless days as religiously as
possible we are practicing our own
little economies, just as you are no
doubt, also on the side we are doing
a humber of most interesting expert
ments. The cutting of the bread on
the bread board does not solve the
cold biscuit problem, altho it does re-
duce the stale slices of bread to a
minimum, but biscuits bits of corn
bread and stale yeast bread all toast
ed and ground together make a fine
crumb. This is not only useful for
breading steaks, chops, etc, but is fine