The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-29
On Canning Jaunt With Mrs. Evelyn Cecil Jones' Showing That Home Economies and the Chaotic
 Condition of High Prices Gan Be Easily Remedied
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

TN KISSED in a neat suit of khaki,
 II y with a broad brmmed army hat
 on, her whole aim and object in
 life just at the present being to do "her
 bit' in patriotic way, and since be- ing woman she can't shoulder a gun and go to the front, Mrs. Evelyn Cecil
 Jones has decided that the best way that
 she can serve her country and her flag is to show the wasteful housewives of the country the error of their ways.
 Mrs. Jones needs no introduction to the people of Birmingham, for since she ap- piled to the ministers of this city short time after war was declared to assist her in getting audiences for her lectures on home economies, cooking, canning, and conserving along all lines, planting, fertilizing and diversiication of crops, her name has become a household word
 Mrs. Jones is very remarkable woman; she's clever and capable; she's had time to do dramatic readings and. help her doctor husband with his clerical works. To speak before political organi- zations, appear in Washington before the food control committees, keep well ordered house, and ever so many other things that I can't remember just at the moment; any way, she's big asset to Birmingham and if the housewives who want to remedy the chaotic condition of high prices, and save their money, by not wasting foodstuffs, time and en- ergy, will get busy and talk to Mrs. Jones, or attend some of her lectures at the Margaret Allen school or at the various churches throughout the Bir- mingham district, where large audiences greet her during the week days, they'll learn something to their advantage.
 What I'm trying to teach women," Mrs. Jones said in speaking of her work, lis not to spend any more money on equipment, but to use what they already have in the matter lof canning. preserv- ing, and all sorts of things of that kind. Use what our mothers had; not even that much, because they spent a great deal of money on outfits, but to use all the old empty bottles and preserve jars and jelly glasses. The government Is in- sisting upon this because they don't want the tin to be used; that, of course, is too important an item in intuition SUD- plies. So I tell my auditors to use any thing that is container; it's the odds and ends that cause the waste after all.
 Another thing, let women learn how to do canning through the medium that suggest" Mrs. Jones continued be cause if they go to canning factories or schools or things of that sort, they must give up a 25 per cent on their products, and what's the user"
 Tn my own household" Mrs. Jones said, q haven't cut down especially on anything; I have tried tea without su- gar, eating jam as a substitute which I have made, but have cut down on ex- pensive clothes. I've donned a khaki uniform for the summer and while it Is not made in strict military fashion, l found when I went to Washington re- gently that everywhere I went I was and I also found that many other women in uniform were to be seen. While in Washington, I went to see MT. Hoover; I found he was out of town, but I talked with his right-hand man, Judge Wilbur, of the Leland Stanford who Is ranking officer when MT. Hoover is not there I found every thing in very chaotic condition, com- mittees being formed circulars being gotten out, but everybody anxious to get the women of the United States to do their part and assist the government 1 In conserving.''
 Personally, I do not like to cook" Mrs Jones said. By that I mean the | drudgery; I like to work out recipes, |