Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-05-08
WOMEN ARE URGED
TO MORE ECONOMY
EVERY HOME OUGHT TO DO I'M
PoRTANT SERVICE FOR
THE NATION.
AVOID ALL WASTE OF FOODS
Need Not Leave Home Duties to Help
Armed Forces-Find Substitutes
for Meat-PIan inexpensive
Meals, and Other Ways.

Washington.-In an appeal this week
to the women of the United States"
Secretary Houston declares that they
can do their bit most effectually in
the national emergency by practicing
thrift in their households.
The appeal was prompted by Ques-
atoms as to the service women can
render the nation in producing and
conserving agricultural products.
Every woman can render important
service to the nation in its present
emergency" says the appeal. "She
need not leave her home or abandon
her home duties to help the armed
forces. She can help to feed and to
clothe our armies and help to supply
food to those beyond the seas by prac-
ticing effective thrift in her own
household.
Every ounce of food the housewife
saves from being wasted in her home
all food which she or her children
produce in the garden and can or pre-
serve-every garment which care and
skilful repair make it unnecessary to
replace-all lessen that which house
holds draft on the already insufficient
world supplies.
Prevent All Waste.
"To save food the housewife must
learn to plan economical and properly
balanced meals, which, while nourish-
ing each member of the family proper
do r,f
fer extravagant and wasteful variety
1t is her duty to use all effective meth
DDS to protect food from spelling She
must acquire the culinary ability to
utilize every bit of edible food that
comes into ner home. She must learn
to use such foods as vegetables, beans,
peas and milk products as partial sub
stitutes for meat. She must make ia
her business to see that nothing nu-
tritious is thrown away or wasted.
Waste in any individual household
may seem insignificant but if only
single ounce of edible food, on the
average, is allowed to spoil or be
thrown away in each of our 20,000,000
homes over 100000 pounds of ma
terial would be wasted each day. 1t
takes the fruit of many acres and the
work of many people to raise, prepare
and distribute 464,OOO,OOO pounds of
food year.
Make Clothing Serve.
Clothing is largely an agricultural
product and represents the results of
labor on the sheep ranges, in cotton
] in mi faofnriac VIII
ever a useful garment is needlessly
2 discarded material needed to keep
some one warm or dry may be con-
sumed merely to crafty a passing
: fancy. Women would do well to look
, upon clothing at this time particular
, ly from the utilitarian point of view.
q Leather, too, is scarce and the prop
q er shoeing calls for great supplies of
this material. Anything that can be
done to encourage adults or children
to take care of their shoes and make
t them last longer means that so much
I more ltaeher is made available for
other purposes.
Uniform Not Patriotic Requisite.
d Employed women, especially those
l. engaged in the manufacture of food or
Il clothing, also directly serve their
country and should put into their
tasks the enthusiast and energy the
importance of their product warrants
:. while all honor is due to the WON
en- who leave their homes to nurse and
care for those wounded in battle nc
woman should feel that, because she
. does not wear a nurses uniform, she
= is absolved from patriotic service. The
20 Is home women of the country, if they
- will give their minds fully to this
y vital subject of food conservation and
y train themselves in household thrift
can made the housewives apron uni
form of national significance.
Demonstrate thrift in your homes
and encourage thrift among you
n aeighbors.
he Make saving, rather than spending
III your social standard.
Of MAKE economy fashionable, lest i
at become obligatory"