Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-03
Organized During Civil War, Helps Hoover Save Food

being held all over the country. It will
give recipes for the preparation of all
the new substitutes advocated for use
instead of the staples. and will tell
connection with them to make up a
balanced meal.
1--WE have one cook book which our
students follow. 1t was written be-
fore the sugar shortage, SO we sug-
gest that sorghum or honey be used in
its recipes wherever sugar is mention
ed. This book contains 43 meat sub
stitutes of cereals and cheese. 13 egg
recipes and 70 fish recipes of the same
order. The book also devotes twenty
pages to meus for breakfast, luncheon
and dinner for week in each month
of the year, which have been tried and
tested. They are economical and
healthful, requiring no meats or fat,
but only vegetable oils for seasoning.
''The Rose Cross will work out a
table of balanced menus for any house.
wife If she will send the amount of
money she spends on food each month
and the number of people in her fam
lily. We are also glad to open demon
stration headquarters in any city where
we are invited. The Rose Cross is alb
solutely non-sectarian. and makes no
discrimination on account of race or
color.
"I have a letter from the chief dieti-
clan of one of the hospital ships, who
tells me that she has gone carefully
into the material taught by the Rose
Cross Aid and that she intends taking
our books abroad with her for use in
the hospitals on the battle lines.
Our hope at present is to give all
America the benefit of our dietary sys-
tenn at this time when the crying need
of the nation is for a rational knowl-
edge of food conservation. Indeed, it
seems most urgent that the housewife
81 ion ha IVA,
means of increasing her knowledge
along these lines. when the country is
facing a war ration basis.
II came to Washington with Mrs. A.
w. Witt. the superintendent of instruc-
ton at the Kansas City branch. to see
If the food administration would in
dorse our plan to establish branches in
all sections. We have plans atDot for
"a wide-reaching organization"
During the course of her remarks
Mrs Carpenter told a story about the
use of Rose Cross methods in her own
kitchen. A year and half ago. she
said, she began to apply most strin-
gently the principles of conservation to
her own table. Her maids, who are
colored, were very fond of fat meats
and seemed bit unwilling to forego
their diet. Mrs. Carpenter told them
that they could have their fat meat il
they wanted it. but that she would like
them to try her menus. or. rather. the
Rose Cross menus. for just a little
while. They did, and the result was
that they forsook the old-time diet on
the score that they felt better and ac-
tually liked the new things better. Mrs.
Carpenter was visited by friend be-
fore her recent departure from Kansas
City, who. asked to be allowed to go
into her kitchen and sound the cook
on her opinion of the new diet. She
was convinced that it certainly pos
sessed unusual merit when this prac-
tical cook admitted herself to be one of
it's ardent followers, and remarked in
the bargain that she could not con-
scientiously go back to her old way of
eating.