The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-05-25
Eat Enough But No More.

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Eat Enough But No More.
! The wartime definition of conservation
should include an actual reduction in con-
sumption.
But this is no time to endanger ones
health war worker was heard to ar
que.
Quite right The full working strength
of every man and woman is needed dur
ing these days of national stress as new
Ier before Ii is not, however, a question
, of suddenly eating less than is actually
needed to sustain life and health but of
discovering the fact that the American
man and woman has long eaten more
than is necessary or wholesome
As an experiment a group of war
workers deliberately reduced their diet
20 per cent below the nutritional stand
ard OF 100 grams protein and 5000 ca
tories every "A hours. In period cover
ing six months they found their powers
of endurance and their physical strength
did not suffer, but actually increased.
They lost surplus fat, but that was all.
During this time one of the number
had typhoid fever and his illness was re-
garded with extraordinary interest in
the light of this reduced diet. His case
proved to be perfectly normal one, his
recovery no slower than usual, and he
resumed the self imposed
diet.
Food saving should imply cutting off
all unnecessary consumption.
Don't Turn Them Away Hungry.
Brave and wonderful as the feats Of
the army and navy, only 25 per cent of
the final victory will be due them," Lloyd
George recently said in an interview.
Perhaps when he made this statement,
he was thinking of the women of the
east side of London who demonstrated
with him for sending aeroplanes to pro-
tect them. Don't mind us" they plead
ID, send the planes to the front. They're
needed more there"
Or perhaps he was thinking of the
young girl who had been in three explo-
lions while working in munition fac
DRY. Still she insisted that she con-
inue her dangerous work, Because" she
aid, Il want to make the others see it
sn't so bad to be blown up"
Yes, Lloyd George was right when he
aid that only rs per cent of the final
ictory could be due to the army and
ANY. The larger part is due to the cour-
ge, endurance and supreme unseltishness
/ those behind the lines.
The women of France and England,
taly and Belgium, tried by long years of
acrifce, priyation and great mental and
hyscal suffering, have remained daunt-
sss and steadfast.
We women of this country are young
ct in suffering. We do not know what
means to have to have our homes de-
troyed, our children lost, or killed be-
ore our eyes, or driven into slavery by
he Germans We do not know how it
,els to huddle in cellar all night, ex-
Getting bomb every moment to fall on
he building over our heads. We do not
ave to stand in line long hours in heat
nd in rain waiting for our meager ra-
on of food, and then sometimes to find
e have waited in vain and must go
,me empty handed and hungry.
Surely we, who because of our geo.
aphical position can share SO few of
e burdens of war. can see TO it that
rough no fault of ours shall these
omen of Europe ever be turned away
nptv- handed when they wait for their
lily food ration. They will never have
be turned away if we will give them
r wheat, for then they can at least
We bread
For us to do this requires no sacrifice.
only means that wherever we have
en- eating wheat we shall remember to
e some other cereal, or rice or pota-
rs.
The latter vegetable is very plentiful
W, and since potatoes are nourishing
d Just as palatable as bread, what
,ier way of saving wheat than by eat
! more potatoes?
rhe following recipe is for those who
mt their potatoes little differently
pared from the ordinary ways.
Potato Patties-Select medium sized,
ooth-skinned oval potatoes. Bake in
hot oven until tender, be-
careful not to overbrown the. skin.
. the potatoes in two lengthwise, re-
We the potato pulp, being careful to
We the shells unbroken. Mash the hot
alto, add either milk or cream to
sten as for mashed potato, one-half
spoon salt and ne-eighth saltspoon
per. Fill the shells with this mix
;, rounding the surface so that il is
shape of the original potato. Bake
10 minutes in a hot oven.
ariations: Fold into the two cups of
ioned potato pulp the beaten white of
egg; pile lightly in the potato shells
bake. Grated cheese, one-half cupful
wo cups of potato pulp may be used.
Dorothy Dexter.
Ntsaf, A, l ernn