GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Decembkr, 1917 



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DO you need 

 a new morn- 

 i n g dress ? 

 Please don't 

 think me rudely 

 inquisitive. I 

 merely w a nted 

 to suggest that 

 you leould not do 



better than buy one of the " Food 

 T'niforms," sometimes called 

 Hooveralls. The uniform is trim, 

 servioeable, becoming, easy to laun- 

 der and to put on, for it fastens 

 with only one button. It makes an 

 ideal morning dress, and is equally 

 useful as a coverall apron to slip en 

 over your best street gown to go to 

 the kitchen and get a meal. The front 

 is reversible, thus prolonging its useful- 

 ness before it needs the tub. On the 

 sleeve is the insignia of the Food Admin- 

 istration as shown at the head of this 

 page. T shall have to admit that the neat, 

 detacliable, white pique cuffs are nearly al- 

 ways detached from my uniform, for I am 

 the kind of woman who gets into her work 

 clear up to h.er elbows. The uniforms can 

 be ]iurchased ready made for $2.95. Wear- 

 ing one helps a woman to bear in mind tlie 

 sajdng current in England, " Nothing we 

 can do can equal what the boys at the front 

 endui'e." 



Whether you wear the Food Uniform or 

 not is a matter of personal preferenice and 

 convenience; but I earnestly hope every 

 Gleanings family has a Home Card hang- 

 ing in a conspicuous position in the kitchen, 

 and a card in the front window showing 

 you are a member of the Food Adminis- 

 tration. Is there a woman who can hesi- 

 tate to sign the food pledge when she tliinks 

 of that bereaved mother in Evans\'ille, Ind., 

 the mother of our first American hero to 

 die in the trenches in France? Then there 

 are the mothers of the two other boys who 

 gave their lives at the same time; there are 

 the mothers, wives, or sweethearts of the 

 seventy men who gave their lives on the 

 transport Antilles; and iierhaps even more 

 deser\nng of our sympathy are the mothers 

 of the twelve American boys who were tak- 

 en prisoners by the Grermans. We mothers 

 whose sons, undei" the age of conscription, 

 are still safe in school, should be willing 

 to saicrifice to the limit to hast'en the end of 

 the war and stop this horrible sacrifice of 

 the youth and hope of the world. And we 

 liave not yet been asked to make any real 

 sacrifices. AVe are asked to " Eat plenty, 

 wisely, without waste, and thus help win 

 tlie war." 



L"t us now consider how we can carry 



OUR FOOD PAGE 



Stancy Puerden 



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out the request 

 to make Tues- 

 day a meatless 

 and Wednesday 

 a Avheatless day. 

 Some have said 

 they ]ireferred 

 to make some 

 other day a 

 meatless day. Tliat is your privi- 

 lege ; but I believe it is wiser to take 

 tlie day requested by the Food Ad- 

 ministration for two reasons : In the 

 first place, if every one aiccepts 

 Tuesday as a meatless day, as a mat- 

 ter of course, you will not have t» 

 make apologies to your guests; and 

 as the hotels and restaurants are asked to 

 observe tlie same day, no member of the 

 family will be apt to spoil j^our meatless 

 plans by eating meat at a iDublie eating- 

 place. In the second place, Friday has 

 always been observed as a meatless day by a 

 large jjart of the population, and you can 

 u.sually get fresh fish at tlie markets. There- 

 fore if you observe Friday as a fish day you 

 can have Iwo meatless days half a week 

 apart.. As one Avriter puts it, "United, we 

 eat ; divided, we starve." 



When I began to plan these menus I had 

 in mind a meatless day, a wheatless day. and 

 sugarless day ; but after writing the menus 

 for the meatless and wheatless days I f nmd 

 they were both sugarless. To tell the truth, 

 our town has been so nearly sugarless for 

 some time back that I have become quite 

 expert in planning sugarless meals for the 

 Puerden family, and I doubt if the members 

 of the family have even noticed the differ- 

 ence. The Food Administration says th's is 

 the time to draw upon our stores of pre- 

 serves, jellies, and sweet canned fruit to 

 help tide us over the next few weeks until 

 the beet and cane sugar begins to move. It 

 is al'-'o the time for us beekeepers in every 

 way possibe to substitute honey for sugar. 

 Mr. Puerden suggests that we observe an 

 eatless day a week. It might not hurt some 

 of us grownups to have seven eat-less days 

 a week. Now, Mr. Editor, I put that hy- 

 ])hen in myself. The proverbial fall'en 

 angel of the printing-office, the proof- 

 reader, the editor, or some other meddle- 

 some person persists in sprinkling my copy 

 with hj'phens. It sometimes takes me as 

 much as fifteen minutes in a single month 

 to remove superfluous liy]>hens from the 

 proof. I am monthly expecting to see my 

 maiden name tied to Puerden by a liyphen 

 at the head of this department. .lust to 

 illustrate how muf h harm a misplaced punc- 

 tuation mark may cause, some misguided 

 person inserted an interrogation point in 



