Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-25

mending. and employed in these rooms
many thousands of women who had
beer thrown out of work or found
themselves confronted with the neces-
sity of taking the place of the absent
bread winner, though unframed for
any line of commercial work. But
short while ago the government shut
down upon the factories manufacturing
chocolate bonbons, in order that the
sugar supply might be conserved. and.
thanks to the relief organizations IT
was not long before the thousands OF
girls thus thrown out of work were re-
absorbed into the ranks of the earners.
In dealing with the problems OF 1000
shortage and high prices of food the
women worked out model household
budgets, which were widely explained
and. turning to their card indexes, they
took charge of all those cases where
the family's income was not equal to
the minimum, Misunderstanding budget
They sent lecturers throughout the
country to teach the people how TO
buy and how to prepare the scant.
hardy war foods. In some towns and
cities they issued cards to the most
needy. which entitled the holders 10
purchase groceries and meats below the
market prices. In many cases the cards
called for free supplies. The cards
We're redeemed by the women's relief
bodies. They greatly extended the work
of furnishing milk to children and OF
taking care of maternity cases. One of
work for the amelioration of the neces-
stiles of the war table was that done
in connection with calling the popular
kitchens into being.
Communal Table Maintained.
The popular kitchens are. in reality,
great cooperative undertakings in
which thousands of families unite to
spread daily a communal table. These
kitchens were opened in most of the
larger cities. The relief workers pur-
chased the food materials in vast guam
titles at the lowest wholesale prices.
and a great part of the labor consumed
in the preparation and distribution of
the food was volunteer. OF course,
the savings effected in costs of food,
in LAHORE in the wastage of prepara
lions. We're enormous. The fuel bills of
thousands of families were cut down,
and the flames that burned under the
great kitchens ovens and kettles were
not so large as the combining of the
replaced flames would have been. Much
valuable time was saved to the woman
in the home, the increased time neces-
sary for shopping on the card system
and the time taken with the cooking of
meals and cleaning up. This, too, was
en- are forced to work outside the home
to make both ends meet. And, finally,
the great kitchens menu was more
calculated to keep up
health and strength than the home
menus would have been.
The meals are served in clean, roomy
dining halls or are prepared for home
use and distributed from several points
in the neighborhood that the kitchen
is designed to serve. The authorities
look with more favor upon home din
ing than upon the vast community din
ing rooms, for they fear the public CO.
operative kitchen may be here to stay,
# the women become thoroughly wean-
ed from the labors of housewifery
There is a plant often heard in Ger
many that the public kitchens are
bound to break up home life by cutting
the last thread that still binds woman
to the hone.
Meals Served at Small Cost.
In the public kitchens. meals are