Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-30

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 26-The biggest
wv mark of patriotism these days, next 10
" owning Liberty bond, is to eat correctly.
Not that the government is concerned with your
table manners, but it is concerned with your food
Eating has recently been the subject of more gov
eminent pamphlets, tracts and bulletins than the
itself.
So rapidly have they been flung at the hereto
fore hearty appetite of the average American that
he has sometimes experienced considerable diff
Guilty in keeping up with them. One week, Tor eX-
ample, he is told to drink more milk and eat less
meat, while the next week comes the word that
milk is scarce and to use as little of it possible
Then he is told to eat but few potatoes-they are
needed TO win the war But just as he has accus-
toned himself to rice substitute, he is in
formed that it is not potatoes he must economic
on, but bread Has he ever heard of using potato
flour intsead of wheat -four to make delicious and
nourishiRg bread?
Now, all the usual staples of the American
diet, with the exception of potatoes are under
a partial ban by the food censor. We are told
that we ought TO limit ourselves to two level ia
blespoonfuls of sugar, two level teaspoonfuls OF
butter and One-fourth Of a cup of -four day
Already Europe is keeping alive on like meager
rations. This year British housewives max
ing plum buildings for their boys in the
trenches-they haven't sugar enough. French
their odd pennies for candy Italian confection-
ers permitted to do business only three times
a week.
Then, there is the question of meat This also
is needed to wage the war, and patriots will eat
less than usual of IT during the coming months
The high cost of living makes patriotism in this
regard comparatively easy matter
If, however, people cut down on their
sumption of meat -four, butter, milk and sugar
they must make it up in some other way. True,
such economy will give a large number Of fat
people a good opportunity to get thin, but what
about the people who are already thin? In the
absence of any reserve fuel, how they going
to keep their bodies running along two table
pie it looks and the housewife who would
keep her family in good condition during the
rious embargoes has got to study the prob
lem thoroughly.
In this respect the government offers the best
assistance Problems in body requirements and
worked out in the laboratory kitchens of the de-
partment of agriculture One of these studies
made by Miss Caroline Hunt, scientific assistant
of the office of home economics, states relations
service, shows how fresh fruits and vegetables
may be used to other staple foods. Miss
Hunt points out, for example, that green peas
and lima and kidney beans form excellent sub
stitute for meat. She does not advocate their use
in the menu every night, but she holds, with many
other eminent dieticians, that Americans in gen
eral eat entirely too much meat, and can easily
afford to dispense with some of it. "a large dish
of green peas" says Miss Hunt, supplies as much
protein one-fourth of a pound of beef, and,
cooked with mint, mint sauce, constitutes a
very acceptable change from the monotonous
round Of meats.
AS cereal savers she suggests the use of DO
tatoes sweet potatoes and partially ripe bananas.
cooked. small potato, weighing from three to
four ounces, supplies as much starch as a large
slice of bread, but less protein. 1t is not there
fore an absolute substitute, but 1t comes pretty
near it. Mashed potatoes may be used in the