The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-07-18
Favors Community Kitch-
ems to Save Cost and
Health.
LARGE WASTE STOPPED
Absurd Fiction on Tombs of
Victims s of Wasteful
Household System.
BY MARGERY REX

/. w 'N IAhNNN ef'i NhN VI a
household drudge. The idea comes
from Mrs. Louis Reed weizmiller,
deputy commissioner Of the depart
nent Of markets of New York. Here
is another one:
Mother faded away with the
steam out of the teakettle."
You never see such bold bad lines
chiseled in the GRANTEES that grace
graves. No. indeed. Instead of the
truth You read that Emily rests I'M
peace or that Auntie departed her
ittous life. or some other work ot
fiction.
Mrs. Welzmiller doesn't believe
that mothers or grandmas should
work themselves to death cooking
things over redhot stoves. She has
a splendid idea for "kitchenless
homes" II worked out according TO
the specifications which she so en-
Enthusiastically sets forth, 1t would be
wonderful success and reduce. first
OF all. the high cost of living, then
it would ease the household temper
and, lastly. 1t would increase the
amount of time woman could give
to the interests OF her husband chill
dren and home.
The fact that a million loaves of
bread are thrown away in New York
city every day was the occasion for
Mrs. Welzmiller's exposition OF her
idea.
During the war" she said. 1--WE
Investigated food conditions. We
heard a lot about waste, But the
throwing away OF bread we find in
many cases is unavoidable waste.
You can no longer say to the
h9asewife that she ought to make
-. rs.1-
dings or Brown Bettys. for she may
confront you with the fact that it
takes milk, eggs, butter and sugar.
to say nothing OF fruit and spice.
\ perhaps, to finish these products
properly. And there is the cost of
\ the fire to bake the pudding. Fried
q bread is indigestible, bread and
water punishment.
Many poor families who live
n high in the tenements, send out the
n children to shop. Perhaps the
n youthful representative OF the group
n vii be given somewhat stale bread
a by the baker. 1t is a lot of trouble
10 make the long trip down the
n stairs again to attempt returning
n things
Il Then the bread is found to. be
II unappetizing If too dry. is eaten
"a indiferently and much left. This
33 must be thrown out, for these peo-
~ pie know only too well that to make
III over the bits left will cost from
'& twenty-five to thirty &C "a To dis
ia card 1t costs only ten or twelve
WI cents.
Now. it is my belief that the
jH kitchenless home proposition would
IN do away with all waste,
H AT present every family must
III have a cook. One hundred families
M then, have one hundred cooks IL
,3 instead we had some form of COM
M munity kitchen requiring ten cooks
N for several hundred families, buying,
u food at wholesale lots and reducing
"a the cost of delivery and rent, YOU
N can see how much better and
# cheaper food would be.
VI But we have then. the problem
n Of the man who says" laughed Mrs,
N Welzmiller. "'my wife always cooks
IA the meals for the children and my
x self
~ How he loves TO see her over
Athf hot stove--her place being in
LII TIM home! But then, maybe, he
n never saw her anywhere else, so how
"A can he Judge? Home might be a
M brighter place II she were to have
u some spare time for getting
"A acquainted with her family after the
a the kitchen drugery were lifted
VI from her Vfe.
M many premature graves. And the
IN grave stones tell how a happy lie
~ was taken up on high or how
some one may at last rest In peace
& "All this sort OF slavery has no
~ economic value.
N Can any son say what his moth
~ er's services have been worth from
81 a money standpoint? No. Think OF
~ all the meals she has cooked for
III him. II she charged even 10 cents
M apiece Cor them the sum would
E stagger him. Then there are the
q shirts she has washed and mended.
III the sums of money she has saved
"a him with her carefulness and In
III genuity.
Men resent the word drudge,
81 but II they could be made TO see
Hnow much could be saved and what
y Aonvenience the kitchenless home
with community cooking would be-
the lesson would take root.
wv Even now few women bake
2bread and cake or make soups Tor
~ he simple reason OF economy. Most
.men would like these home made
5-Edelicacies. A community kitchen
Mould provide them.
W II know OF an inn up In the
'tf fountry where the system was tried
n connection with the regular hotel
fervice. Persons in outlying homes
nd cottages were supplied with 2l
neals a week for s5 The expert
-ent was highly successful.
i8 Miss Jessie Bancroft. teacher
IN physical training in the New
~ ork public schools. operated a CO.
a peratiVe kitchen during the war
Hmes. II covered sSvestment and
as a war emergency measure. She
found it possible---even wise to
1--we the overhead shared by some
Qter enterprise such as a tearoom.
Yh then the only large expense
as the delivery. Miss Bancroft
carried her experiment far enough
r believe that sound and favora-
PIE opinion could be based upon the
esults."