Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-22
WOMEN CHARGEABLE FOR MEMS FAILURE TO SAVE
FOOD, SAYS ONE OF SEX WHO HAS STUDIED SUBJECT
Mrs. Charles La Wall Ad-
vises Housewifely Craft
in Kitchen as Solution
of Problem
Husband Who Brings
Home Beefsteak on
Meatless Day Needs Ca
mouflage
THE CRARGE nN MOMEN

]. Man, who IL perfectly willing to
die for his country, refuses to eat for
2. He brings home n beef.teak on
meatiess day and quietly orders II to
be cooked
8. He will have none OF that little
stranger. war bread.
=. All In all, he refuses to be pa
triot in the obscuriiy of his own din
ing room.
THE ANSWER BY 4 WOMAN
I. Woman IL to blame for not being
better camauhage artist; she must
make u meatless day seem like what
II isn't.
e. She has done the best she knows
how. But she doesn't know how,
+ 3. Permanent public kitchens must
be established throughout the city to
teach her this artful preparation of
meat substitutes and war breads.
4. Refuses to let his dining room h,
obscure. II he likes to go to war TO
the tune of band let him save food
the same way. Put lot of thrills In IL.
women, not men. are to blame Tor the
failure Of men to stand behind their
country's home fortresses and save food.
For woman, allotted the aftfui little task
Of making meatless day seem like what
ii isn't, has to certain extent fallen
down on her job.
So, in brief, is the critical situation of
mans refusal TO cooperate with his
wife in saving food, summarized by Mrs.
Charles La Wall. secretary Of the p,Ire
food committee of the Civic Club. and
wife of Professor Charles La Wall. the
noted chemist. As an antidote Mrs, La
Wall advocates the permanent estab-
lishment of moving food stations and
city kitchens throughout the city where
a housewife may learn why she has
failed.
By the wholesale. Of late. accusations
have been flung against that creature,
man. He brings home beefsteak on
meatless day and quietly orders 1t to
be cooked. When the little stranger
war bread is slid in front of him he
will have none of IT. Man, it seems,
who is perfectly willing to die for his
country, refuses to eat for II. At least
in the privacy of his own home. All
well and good to heed the gentle voice
of the waiter on "A wheatless day but
in his sanctum sanctorum give him
bread-white bread
This is the situation thousands OF
women in this city and throughout the
country are rapidly realizing they must
face. Mrs. La Wall comedies that men
who will cheerfully give up their lives
for Uncle Sam call halt on patriotism
when their personal comfort Is attacked.
The difference is, she says, one is done
to the blare of trumpets and the other
in the obscurity of the home.
HOME CAMOUFLAGE NEEDED.
But the situation must be met with
art and persuasion rather than force
according to Mrs La Wall. The thing
to do is to create a thrilling heroic at
mosphere about'food saving
1t is up to women then to turn home
stump speecher and camoufage artist
I'VE might" said Mrs. La Wall, have
the women report what men are not co.
operating in the food campaign and then
start drive against them, but that
would necessarily entail large amount
of work. That is not a practical plan
THE real failure lies. after all, with
the women-not ALL but a large ma.
jority Of of them. They have helped theiI
husbands fail in the conserving of food
simply because they don't know how tC
prepare leftovers in such a palatablt