Women and War Work

ht to realise that we

of the Board

and scrape and scrape, you will go in old clothes, and old boots, and old ties until such a mass of treasure be garnered into

t of the Boar

food question assumes gre

avy absorb the service of vast numbers of the available ships. We have moved 13,000,000 men since war broke out, and the supplies and munitions they have needed, to our many fronts. Ceaselessly we move the wounded. We have to bring into Britain half our food. That we have done this, has been due to the British Navy and the Reserves-the patrols and the mine sweepers-the Fringes of the Fleet-and not least, the merchant seaman. About 6,000 merchantmen have been killed by the enemy, some with diabolical cruelty. These men are torpedoed and come into port, and go for another ship at once. On the ship on which I crossed there were seamen who ha

eople want everywhere, is a simple drawing of a merchant seaman, and under it t

ion are the countries that will win, and the food problem wil

Public Trustee was chairman of an Official Committee, which organized large Exhibitions in London and throughout the country. These Exhibitions had stalls showing food values with specimens, had exhibits of the most economical cooking stoves and arrangements, and exhibited every manner of time and labour saving device. They had wonderful exhibits of clothes for children made from old clothes of grown-ups, of marvellous dresses and little jerseys and caps and scarfs made from legs of old stockings. There were charming dresses and underclothing made of the very simplest materials and decorated artistically with stitching and

en, Miss Petty, "The Pudding Lady," being a specially attractive demonstrator. She was called "The Pudding Lady," first by little children in London in the East End, where she

e babies and the children. Lectures on vegetable and pota

t dinners for a family at a small cost-for the best weekly budgets of different small incomes-for the best blouse and dress made at

nt of the Board of Agriculture, of which the Women's Branch is doing the work of placing women on the land. It not only works on the producti

and most interesting experiments made. The glass bottles necessary have been secured by the Department, and are sold by them to those doing the conservation at a fixed price. Last summer the Sugar Co

body dealing with all food problems of s

y country and a Food Controller deserves the help, sympathy and support of every good citizen. No Food Controller, no matte

gulations. The price of the four pound loaf (and it must be four pounds) is

y most people felt to be stupid as it meant a run on staple foods-and it was abandoned by Lord Rhondda. We had meatless days, which also have been stopped. We found it difficult to do, and impossible to regul

five ounces of meat (before cooking) can be served at any meal. These regulations are strictly enforced, and the duty of seeing all the regulations are carried out, and all the work done, devolves upon the Local Food Control Committees

l maize), barley, rice-flour, etc., are added. We expect to mill potato flour this year. Oatmeal has a fixed price, 9 cents a pound, in Scotland, 10 cents in England. No fancy pastries, no icing on cakes and no fancy br

d sugar and margerine queues in our big towns-women standing in long rows waiting. It

had a busy and full time, but our people are quite well fed. Naturally enough, considering the hard wor

, and fined 40/- to ￡100. No bread must be sold that is not twelve hours baked. New bread is extravagant in cutting and peop

commandeered and the hoarder punished. Sev

er used in washing dishes are trapped and saved. The fats are used to make glycerine, and last year the Army saved enough waste fat to make glycerine for 18,000,000 shells. Fats and scraps for pigs, and bones, etc., ar

pend a certain amount on meals in restaurants and hot

rectors with him-Mrs. C.S. Peel and Mrs. M. Pember Reeves-in the Ministry of Food, and they help in the wh

y of dishes, and the purchasers come to the kitchens and bring plates and jugs to carry away the food. Soups are sold from 2 to 4 cents for a jugful, and other things in proportion. These are es

ned on sugar and we do not want to adopt more compulsory rationing than is necessary. Compulsory rationing, in some people's minds, seems to ensure supplies. It does not and where, under voluntary rationing, people

is the staple food of our poorer classes. They have less variety of foods and need more bread than the better-off people. Compulsory rationing may have to come, but most of us are determin

t down to, was three pounds of flour per head

ry, pledged people to cut down their consumption of grain by one-quarter in the househ

on of their grains by one-third and was almost identical in form, and copies signed by Edm

food with great success. Every head of a household knows that the maids can make or mar one's efforts to sa

the basis of rationing will, we believe, be worked out with

ing supplies, and it is in voluntary work of that kind, which is going on exte

ll beat the Kaiser," and another small boy said, "Boys should give up sliding for the war, as it wears out their boots," and another said, "We should not go to picture houses so much-once a week is quite often enough." One little child who had been coached at school returned home to see a baby sister of two throw away a big crust and said, "If Lord Rho

they get gifts of them send them to the prisoners and the soldiers.

rked enormous numbers of school gardens a

monstrations in villages and country districts on cooking and conservation. The Ministry issues leaflets of recipes and instructions in cooking and has a special Win the War Cookery

work is done by women though food cont

e by the school children. These are crushed and the oil used for munitions and

and backed by linenette. These are sold to the soldiers and sailors for wear under their tunics and are most beautifully light and windproof. The fingers of kid gloves are made into glue, of wash leather gloves into rubbers for household use. The big pieces of l

onservation, our people have learned much, and a