Bisbee daily review., 1917-06-17
Camp Fire Girls Enjoying
"Simple Life'' at Camp In
The Huachuca Mountains

Do you know that every scrap of
food that you leave on your plate
might be helping to keep a hungry
child in Europe from starving? If you
were seated at table on which all
the food in the house was set, and
even this was barely enough to feed
all the people present, you would not
help yourself to more than you want
ed, nor would you throw away that
which was left on your plate You
could not bare to have your wasteful-
ness cause others TO go hungry Just
so, you could not endure to have little
half-starved children looking at you
while you wasted food, their hungry
eyes would haunt you.
This is exactly the situation today;
we have got to feed our friends, the
Allies. And we have got to feed our
selves. We are going to take some
four to six million laborers away from
their present work for the army With
this shortage of labor, we cannot in
crease the amount of wheat, corn.
beef, or pork which we produce I'M
less every girl begins to. help now.
Although we are all going to do
what We can with gardens, we cannot
do a great deal In Kansas, alone,
there are four million acres of land
which year ago had wheat planted
on it, and which now is implanted be-
cause of the lack of labor In spite
of this, we believe that there is enough
food, provided it is used economically.
Imagine yourselves as seated at
table with our English cousins aud
French comrades. You have looked at
the food on the table and you find that
there is not a scrap to spare. You
are going to show your training and
your good manners. and if anybody
is going to suffer. you are going to
insist that it is going to be ourselves,
the hosts and hostesses. When We
stop to think of the agonies they have
been going through while we have had
great era of prosperity, we shall
realize that it is time to treat them
as our honored guests. In other words,
we shall have patriotic table man
ners.
We shall do this not only because
it is a duty, but because it is a great
privilege. We shall look at the people
who waste food, who are willing to
overeat while other people go hun
cry. who are willing as hosts to take
the best of the food at the table leay-
ing their guests to get anything they
can, as disloyal to their country.
Here are some suggestions for help
ing our guests as well as ourselves.
l. Save and use every scrap of
bread or other wheat product. Use
it as toast, grind it and use it as
dressing. We shall describe ways of
doing this later on.
2. Use meat or eggs but once
day. We in America use more meat
than is good for us. There will be
marked decrease in the so-called de-
generative diseases of middle age if
we lessen the amount of meat we eat.
Use lCll7ONtI VI lllIdl
and bones for soups, and hashes.
When using bones for soup be sure
to crack the bones.
4. Use corn in place of wheat TO
a considerable extent. Corn is the
great American grain Think of the
romance of it. We are the only peO-
pie in the world who really know how
to use it. The cost now is much less
than the cost of wheat. Every bit of
corn that we eat releases just that
much wheat that can be shipped to
Europe. Any family can eat corn n
place of wheat at least one half of the
time. by using corn biscuits, corn
bread. corn griddle cakes, Indian puG-
ding. samp hominy. fried mush. corn
pone. We shall show different ways
to use corn from month to month in