The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-01-21
FIVE GOODS EAT
FOR MONTH ON S.
But They Don't Throw Away
Donations or Dinner
Invitations.
rs ALL DARK SECRET
Mustn't Tell Names or Dad
Will Cut Allowances
Down.
is ALL DARK SECRET

Five healthy goods eating on IS q
month?
mot much" you say derisively. 1T
can't be done. That's only 5k cents n
meal. and 51a cents won't even buy Il
sundae."
Eui.
well. it's true, but we're keeping IT
secret" said a pretty girl at the Kappa
Alpha Theta house on University ave-
nue. to a reporter camoufaged as a
FRAT brother. you see, we're afraid
some horrid newspaper reporter will
find out about 1t. and then our fathers
viii raise Cain"
Look Out for Father.
II should think father would like
Il"
"That's the trouble. He'd like It so
we'll that he would cut down the al
lcwance. and then But II we tell
3on about It will you promise never.
never. never to mention our names 2"
'Oh. very WE'LL"
'Cross your heart and hope to die %
Yep. Hope to die If do"
Shoes Caused Il Al.
Well. it's on account OF the per-
1ectly awful prices they're charging
Tor shoes. Don't you think the govern
ment ought to do something? / do.
but anyhow. we just HAD to have
hh0es. And fathers don't understand.
10 they? They expect you to wear
horrid looking old things to parties and
everything. And SO we bought shoes,
and pretty soon It was the end OF the
month. and the bills came and.
Oh, dear! It was just awful"
The pretty coed sighed. One won
6ered how fathers managed to be stern.
Hoover TO Rescue.
I'VE didn't know what to do. We
achemed and schemed, but there didn't
seem to be anything we could cut
down on. without being just Sights
Then somebody thought Of Hooveriz-
ing. Wasn't that smart? Really, it's
quite the thing. to Hooverize. don't you
know?
II Anyway we decided that we were
eating too much, so why not eat less
and savA money and be patriotic Mt
the same time? So we all agreed to
cook our own meals and not spend
more than IS apiece a month on food
There IRE five Of us. you know, and
We organized the Kitchen Queens and
Begun planning"
Il. Fastino and Health.
She pOndered minute.
And that's all there Is to IT," she
said finally.
But how did you do 1t? The
graveyards are all cluttered up with
people who tried to live on nothing
but you look-er--well fed
you mean thing.'
Il just meant" said the reporter
that you are not the living skeleton
which one would expect. What sort
Of food do the Kitchen Queens cook
t. secure such charming results"
"Oh. If that's it. we do it on bread
and butter and things"
"Thinss" 10 Comprehensive.
Things" 1t developed under ques
tioning. are vegetables. preserves
cheese. flour coffee. meat, fruit and
sweets.
Sounds like more than IS a month
doesn't It? But the Kitchen Queens
insist that it is not
We began just ~ days ago." said
the spokesman. 'and the five of US
have spent Just 81"
Invitations not Scorned.
"of course she said after a pause
I'VE don't refuse invitations out tt
dinner. and II some of the other girls
who live on ranches insist on bringing
us things we can't refuse them. car
we:
Donations and invitations dom,
count for they don't cost MS anything
Besides. We haven't had such an AW-
Full lot of them, really.
NO, It's college training that does
1t. We are all studying domestic sci
ence and We know how to plan meal,
and cook them. That's the whole Sc.
cret.'
Really" said the coed, rs the in.
terview closed. "Hooverizing is cas-,
II you just know how"
Another Version Of II.
At the door the reporter met fiv'
rah-rah boys. all heavily laden will
bundles.
when did you fellows go to WORT
as delivery men," he asked
Guess again." said one. "Th
Kitchen Queens have invited us t,
dinner. and it's a rule on the campu
now that an invitation means tina
you must bring food with YOU. They'r
Hooverizing. you know"
Which may or may not be n huncl
for Herbert.