Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-07-31
GOOD HOUSEKEFpING
Ry Henrietta Grauel.
THE HoUSEKEEPER'S BATTLE LINE.

If you are on economy bent and who
Is not these davs' II YOU must spend but
little. and to the hcst advantage. buy
only foods that arc IN season Cook only
the amount needed care for all that u
left over and IIsc II M speedily and IN such
WAYS rs make Il appctlSng.
This season IS the tune tor hest
things IN plenty for best vegetables and
hest fruits. for spring lamb and tender
mutton and for fish with sauce 10 bring
o,ft the flavor and no more. for crisp, ting
ling salads that cool and comfort you
salads that are never touched with metal,
hut arc mixed in wooden bowls and served
with the new, delicate. hardwood, silver
mounted salad forks.
Food Ones whole life depends upon
it. The hest food Is SO simple, hut So dc
hciols The worst consists OF the same
things served in the same way without
dchcacv of preparation and scrNfce II
matters little what you cook Wtht does
count. and largely, too. Is how YOU cook
II From the very beginning ot time, man
kind has eaten just about the same sort OF
food, but YOU can remember pleasantly
those few occasions when the flavor OF the
food YOU ate was perfect. No have all
kinds of good things 10 eat and drink, but
how often do YOU prepare your food SO
that the flavor rs so tasteful that IT really
satisfies?
Cooking is Just little of this and that
"A little fat, q dash Of tarragon. a bIt OF
milk and an egg, and you have something
so light that it seems TO consist chiefly OF
hot air. But IT has zcst II satisfies; and
YOU call IT an omelet.
Now. advice of all kinds, whether verbal
or printed, is obnoxious TO most persons,
and when rules for cooking and counsel
| for serving are offered, they are received
| with poor grace by those who need them
most Few of us want To eat the food We
/ can afford Keeping accounts drives Us
wild and analyzing the public market
| (which is the housekeepers base of sup
phes in hot weather is really too much
| trouble" We are all ready to make the
supreme sacrifice, to do some big thing, to
save the country; but you don t know
what to do to help win the you can
do nothing more helpful than to exercise
thrift in the daily, little duties OF buying
and planting.
Do not allow another day TO go by with
this unpatriotic attitude of mind; for you
arc frittering away your power to set a
good example to every one you meet.
Women have a chance now to show
themselves just as loyal, just as sacrificing,
as their brothers One hears girls and
women lingering over the accounts of
bravery and devotion to the flag chroni-
cled from advces sent to us from abroad.
They speak with admiration of the Bel
gi4n and French women, and sigh be
cause they can only stay at home" We
have just as much opportunity to sacri-
fee. Our struggle is not for ourselves but
for liberty All that we buy, all that we
spend all that we use, should be appor-
toned to our needs carefully; then we
stay-at-home women will have a glorio
part for the legacy we are building for the
future The spirit of the women Of '76 is
rivalled by our spirit, if we give it free
reign.
Miss Grauel viii be glad to answer,
either in her column or personally, in
quiries regarding food conservation recipes
and the like. For personal replies three
cent stamp must be enclosed.