Buy skimmed milk for milk soups and desserts, because it is a substitute for meat 

 and costs about quarter the money. 



Eliminate meat from the diet of small children. The normal child will thrive 

 better on milk, cereals and eggs in place of meat. A child's appetite is what the parents 

 make it. Do not feel sorry for the child whose breakfast is oatmeal and milk, and 

 whose supper is bread and milk with a bit of biscuit and jam; the child is well fed. 



The housewife who prevents a dollar's worth of waste has earned that dollar, iust 

 as surely as did her husband in office, workshop or farm. 



An ignorant and untrained servant wastes more than an intelligent buyer can save. 



Constant watchfulness and the careful training of helpers are the only safeguards. 



The untrained mistress cannot be expected to prevent waste. Her ignorance is as 

 costly as that of ignorant servants. 



AVOID WASTE 



MISS B. M. PHILP, Lecturer, Macdonald College, Quebec. 



We women have responded well in providing necessities for the men at the front* 

 but there is an equally urgent duty before us in seeing to it that the resources of our 

 country are husbanded and conserved in order that we may stand the heavy drain and 

 strain upon us. The women of France have given us a wonderful example of what 

 can be done by thrift and resourcefulness. The women of England are learning the 

 lesson, but we in Canada scarcely know the rudiments of economy. Life has been too 

 easy for us. Nevertheless we have shown what we were capable of in Patriotic work, 

 and if we will we can prove equally successful in the checking of extravagance, in 

 increased productiveness and in the conservation of resources. 



Let every woman begin at once to examine the channels through which her money 

 goes. How much is spent on necessities, how much on luxuries? Let her learn to do 

 without the latter by stopping them at once or by degrees. Study the amounts spent 

 for the necessaries of life. Are they wisely spent? Do we secure value for our money? 

 If not, let us not rest until we do. The physical necessities of life may be grouped under 

 the headings: shelter, food, clothing. Shelter includes rent or its equivalent and the 

 running expenses of a home, such as light, fuel, taxes, laundry, repairs, wages, telephone, 

 etc. Study each of these outlays carefully and see if there is waste anywhere. Learn to 

 economize in light by switching off the electricity when not in use and doing with fewer 

 lights. In the matter of fuel much is often wasted by not understanding the furnace or 

 range and burning much more coal than one gets return for in heat. Learn to run the 

 furnace economically. If we can make a ton of coal last a few days or a week longer 

 than before we have accomplished something in the way of economy. Turn off the 

 gas directly instead of leaving it a minute or so after the food is cooked, and make use 

 of the simmerer more frequently. Repairs are often made necessary by carelessness 

 in handling. Learn to take care of furniture and equipment and insist that the other 

 members of the family do likewise. Even the boisterous small boy will respond to the 

 appeal when he realizes that he is thus helping to win the Empire's battles. Dry out 

 the bars of soap so that there may be less wastage, and do not leave it lying in the pan 

 of water you are using. Utilize the soap scraps in making melted soap for laundry or 

 other purposes. These are just a few of the ways in which leakages occur in the running 

 expenses of a home. 



In the matter of food the chief causes of waste are (1) Poor cooking, resulting in a 

 loss of food value or rendering the food unpalatable so that much is left on the plates; 

 (2) Buying more of some commodities than can be used before spoiling; (3) Buying staple 

 goods in too small quantities and losing the reduction in price for quantity; (4) Buying 



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