Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-11-13
BY DR.. Ray Lyman Wilburn
president of Leland Stanford University


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Whether not this is universally true,
it must be admitted that it is shrewd thrust at
the city housekeeper. To her. food has frequently
meant commodity which grows inside boxes, like
matches or thumb lacks. Too many city woman
feels responsibility in regard to food IMAM
toward those same matches and tacks.
She knows there is part of her house known
as the Kitchen" but all it to her is place
which produces bills, bad coffee, and frequent VS.
its in search of servants. Many a country
school teacher or hired man knows more about the
mysteries of food and cooking than does such a
city woman. p. .t. go
Now is the time for her to wake up and begin
to educate herself. And at least she has one ad-
vantage over her country sister knowing next to
nothing about culinary affairs she has that much
less to unlearn. When 1t comes to food conserva-
ton she can start with an open mind.
With multitude of markets to choose from.
she should be careful buyer and equally careful
user. In order to learn those arts she need not
feel that she is foregoing her usefulness IN the
war More attention TO food, more efforts to pre-
vent it's waste, may not fire her Imagination ike
knitting sweaters for soldiers, but 1t has FULLY as
much to do with winning the war Moreover, she
owes such endeavor both to her family and to the
vast army Of food producers outside her sphere
There will be times when the city housewife may
feel that all her efforts toward economy are NULL
fed by the high prices of various staple commod1-
ties. At such times she must remember that every
effort is being made by the food administration to
keep the cost of living as low as possible and to
eliminate any sort of undue profit to producer dis
tributor, and retailer. BY a system of licensing
those persons engaged in the import, manufacture,
storage, and distribution of certain fundamental
foodstus it is hoped that the prices of these COM
modties may be kept from any undue rise
The commodities in question are wheat, wheat
flour, rye rye -four; barley or barley flour; oats
oatmeal rolled oats; corn, corn gr1ts, corn meal
hominy, corn flour, starch from corn corn OIL corn
syrup or glucose; rice, rice -four; dried beans pea
seed dried peas; cotton seed, cottonseed OIL cot
ronseed cOttonseed meal; bean oil, Soya
bean meal, palm oil or copra oil; oleomargarine,
lard lard substitutes oleo oil or cooking fats milk
butter or cheese: condensed, evaporated or pow
dered milk; fresh, canned or cured beef, pork or
mutton; poultry or eggs; fresh frozen fish; fresh
fruits vegetables; canned peas dried beans
canned peas, salmon sardines; dried prunes
dried apples, dried peaches or raisns; sugar cyrups
mOlasses.
And while the government is doing its utmost
TO eliminate wasteful practices on large scale
it behooves the city woman to set ner mousse III
order If she does not prepare her own food FOR
the table-and many city women do not-she must
exercise her prerogative of housekeeper by assdu-
Gus supervision to that no food is wasted unoer
her roof. -
And certainly hope that it is not necessary TO
add that she should be a member Oh the loou
administration and should see to 1t that the coun-
sci of the administrations home card is scrupu-
lousy observed by all her family and by her serV
ants if she has any. f..
Nor need her influence cease there me CITY
woman lives in a congested district; but II she
must paw the penalty for that she also possesses
its advantages The country woman often com
plains that her own range of influence is limited
tropolis She is constantly brought into contact
with people of all sorts, and accordingly has the
chance to influence others toward wise conserVa-
ton. . -. ,...-
The city invariably boasts that it constitutes
q vast clearing house for ideas. If that is the
case the city woman ought to profit by ideas re-
garding the saving of food. And she should give
as we'll as receive ideas.
The patriotic woman nowadays has little use
for the Stacker She should include in her scorn
the Stacker in food conservation. All about her
are many public eating places. II she has reason
to believe that these restaurants are making no
effort to curtail their waste of food, are doing
nothing whatsoever to conserve the needed wheat,
beef pork dairy products, and sugar, she should
not rest until she has pointed out the fault, and
if possible its remedy, to the proprietor OF the
hotel or restaurant. One restrained but logical
word from patron of this sort will do more to in
duce a restaurant to modify wastefulness than any
amount of blatant protest temper losing.
That is but one illustration of the opportunities
to serve which the city woman has.
Her aim should always be to bring into her
city home-simplicity. After all, vast number
of city women country Bred and they should