The Washington herald., 1918-07-21

And at home here we are max
ing better mothers. When the War
Industries Board ruled that corset
making was not a necessary indus
try and refused the corset makers
priorities on steel. 1t took a. step
for better womanhood' and better
motherhood, and when Il set its
face against French heeled shoes II
made another advance.
Our change in diet as a result
Of the war. has improved the race
at home. We were eating too much.
in volume, too many in variety and
too rich in quantity. We eat
less. fewer and simpler now. Well
be a stronger race as a result. And
the present diet has a greater nutri-
tive values
Won't Hurt Us.
"Americ a needed to take up a
notch or two in her belt. Maybe
she'll have to take up three or four.
or even five before she wins this
war, II we have to save enough
here to feed our allies, but 1t won't
hurt her.
Were eating less now and the
children of today when they grow to
manhood will require less.
America cut her meat ration in
half and sent the allies last year
1854. 10000 pounds of meat She
learned to do without a lot of Eu-
rcpean luxuries she had been accus-
toned to import. She cut consump-
ton OF alcoholic beverages; but mosi
important OF all, she voluntarily cut
her own wheat consumption between
IS and 10 per cent, saving out of heI
own requirements 100000 bushels
for her allies. To take the place oi
this she doubled her production ol
cornmeal and increased her produc.
tion of oatmeal and oat products
from 277, 40 pounds in 1911 tc
al, ,S92, 800 pounds in 1917.
Victory Bread.
1.-The substitution of Victory bread
for wheat bread" DR.. Wiley con
tinued, will mean much to the ma
tion. It is better dietetically ant
hygienically. 1t has more of the life
giving essentials needed by the body
the essential mineral salts and VIII
mines. -
"And there is no finer tasting breat
in the world than the corn bread.
had some on my farm yesterda,
morning. It makes my mouth watel
to think of 1t now. -
| Let America take no fear for he
future as race so long as she Care'
/ for her diet. Better mothers will
come from our simple living a
hcme; better fathers from our hart
fighting abroad; and from the tw'
better babies. And the babies vii
grow and improve into better father
and mothers again so long as the!
have the needed good milk during in
fancy, and then grow to adults on tn
simpler diets we have adopted today
| 'Tt would be a crime for Americ
to slip back into her riot of higl
living and high eating after the wa
Is over, though. After we have wo
health through the voluntary sacfi
fee. let US treasure It as the grea
Jewel won In the war"
Germans Hungry.
| Opposed to DR.. wiley's wonderf,
canvass Of the future American,
the picture OF under nourished Gei
many. And here Is the present GeI
| man food ration for an adult:
Fats 75 grams. This was formeri
divided, 80 grams butter and Is gram
margarine. 1t is now reversed an,
the margarine Is Of a very inferio
watery quality. The butter price
fixed at Q marks 65 krone a pount
but little Is available at the fixe
price. Rather than sell for this, dea1
ers allow their butter to becom
rancid and then sell IL as axle greas
| at three to five times this price.
The Imperial meat ration is u
grams per week, but in many local
tiles this Is cut to 150 to 200 gram
per week.
A recent imperial order was ths
the amount Of bone sold with mes
be increased from Is to La, and whe
the butcher honors a German mea
card, IL the meat he sells has n
! bone he must cut enough bone fror
some other carcass to make up one
fourth the order.
Prices Of beef in May were fror
36 cents for flank and hind leg (
50 cents for fillet. all one-fourth bon,
| Milk is selling at IS to 4S pfen
nings liter, about TX pint, but 4
allowed only to children and WON
en- with small babies or about I
become mothers. The allowance 1
one liter a day for children unde
IL year; Y liter between 3 and
years, and " liter between an
years.
| Potatoes have In the past. bee
the real basis of German diet. TIL
average German will consum,
about eighteen pounds of potatoes 4
week normally. Last winter tn
potato ration was cut TO ssyeI