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mE =m mm WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1917 BULLETIN ISSUED TO HOUSEWIVES TO SAVE Government Completes List of Art- icles Women Should Save to Help Conservation Program. ECONOMY TO WIN WAR Food Saved in United States Will Help Feed Big Armies. Charts are given herewith of the recommendations made by the United States food commission for the guid- ance of housewives. The hope is ex- pressed that this chart will be hung "in every kitchen and its suggestions of wartime economy carefully fol- lowed. The recommendations will recommend themselves as both wise and feasible. In fact, most house- holds are already practicing such economy, in spirit if not in the form suggested. It is quite possible that many housewives will find that they can add to these suggestions and it certainly is advisable to study and compare them with present methods. Here are the suggestions: Save the Wheat. One wheatless meal a day. Use corn, oatmeal, rye, or barley bread and non-wheat breakfast foods. Order bread twenty-four hours in advance, so your baker will not bake beyond his needs. Cut the loaf on the table, and only as required. Use stale bread for cooking, toast, etc. Eat less cake and pastry. Our wheat harvest is far below normal. If each person weekly saves one pound of wheat flour, that means 150,000,000 more bushels of wheat for the allies to mix in their bread. This will help them to save democracy. Save the Milk. The children must have milk. Use every drop. Use buttermilk and sour milk for cooking and making cottage cheese. Use less cream. Save the Meat. Beef, mutton, or pork not more than once daily. Use freely vege- tables and fish. At the meat meal serve smaller portions and stew in- stead of steaks. Make made dishes of all left-overs. Do this, and there will be meat enough for everyone at a reasonable price. We are today killing the dairy cows and female calves as the result of high prices. Therefore, eat less, and eat no young meat. If we save an ounce of meat each day per per- son, we will have additional supply equal to 2,200,000 cattle. Save the Fats. We are the world's greatest fat wasters. Fat is food. Butter is es- sential for the growth and health of children. Use butter on the table as usual, but not in cooking. Other fats are as good. Reduce use of fried foods. Soap contains fats. Do not waste it. Make your own washing soap at home out of the saved fats. Use one-third ounce less per day of animal fat and 375,000 tons will be saved yearly. Save the Sugar. Sugar is scarcer. We use today three times as much per person as our allies. So there may be enough for all at reasonable prices, use less candy and sweet drinks. Do not stint sugar in putting up fruit and jams. They will save butter. If everyone in America saves one ounce of sugar daily, it means 1,100,- 000 tons for the year. Save the Fuel. Coal comes from a distance and our railways are overburdened hauling war material. Help relieve them by burning fewer fires. Use wood when you can get it. Use the Perishable Foods. Fruit and vegetables we have in abundance. As a nation we eat too little greenstuffs. Double their use and improve your health. Store pota- toes and other roots properly and they will keep. Begin now to can or dry all surplus garden products. Use Local Supplies. Patronize your local producer. Dis- tance means money. Buy perishable food from the neighborhood nearest you and thus save transportation. General Rules. Buy less; serve smaller portions. Preach the "Gospel of the Clean Plate." Don't eat the fourth meal. Don't limit the plain food to grow- ing children. : Watch out for the wastes in the community. 2 Full garbage pails in America mean empty dinner-pails in America and Europe. , B. E. Gage, Major. D. E. Allen, Secretary. Hints for the Home Gardeners Edited by Farm Battalion Officers M. E. Barker, Treasurer. N. F. Webb, Statistician. D. E. Ambrese, Publicity L. M. Dean, Publicity. ARDEN crops are growing better now, but weeds and grass are also growing faster, and the gardener must hoe faster and oftener. Don't let the weeds out your plants. The writer sees some gar- dens that look sickly. All they need is a small dose of "hoe-cake," re- peated every day for a few weeks, and a cure will be effected. Now is the time to spade your radish, lettuce and onion beds, pul- smother verize thoroughly and sow turnips. Be careful not to sow too thick. Mix seeds with wood ashes, one part seeds to three parts ashes, and broad- cast very lightly. If the soil is heavy, it would be better to sow in drills, so the ground can be cultivated and kept loose. Sow Onion Seeds. The writer has a strip of ground where parsnip seeds failed to come. He is going to thoroughly clean the ground of weeds and grass and make it a fine seed bed, and broadcast it with onion seeds, within a few days, after soaking the seeds about 48 hours. A late fall may produce fair sized onions; but, failing in this, it ought to let at least to make good bottom sets, which will be worth more than eating size per pound. We believe it is worth a trial. Market Problem. Most of our village gardeners planted only enough of the "small stuff'--such as radishes, lettuce and onions, spinach for their own use. It has therefore been thought that no effort will be made to provide a mar- ket for these things. But, the plan of the market for the most substan- tial vegetables, as potatoes, cabbage, carrots, beets, beans, is under consid- eration, and will be reported upon in due time. The local merchants are being consulted as to how best to handle the market end of these things. Also instructions and plans for storage will be published. It is desired that the people plan to store and keep, at least for home con- sumption, if not for the spring mar- ket. While the market has been, somewhat glutted with the early and more perishable vegetables on ac- count of the excess of production, and people have been unable to find a market for their surplus. We do not anticipate any difficulty of this kind in the marketing of the later and more substantial products. A committee is considering this mar- keting proposition, and will report at the next meeting, when some plan will be decided upon. Plant Now. Gardeners can, with reasonable safety, now plant early green and was pod beans, early beets, early carrots, early sweet corn, white sum- mer radishes, winter radishes and early turnips, according to the expert gardeners. Also, early cabbage, Savoy cabbage, early red cabbage, cauliffiower, self-blanching celery, Kohlrabi and rutabagus, may be transplanted. Ravinia ND why Ravinia this year, of all years, when there are so many imperative demands? "Because," an- swered the loyal and enthusiastic number, "We shall need, in this year of concentrated effort, some relax- ation." And, verily, as the weeks go by, there is great temptation to re- lax ones tense nerves at Ravinia, a place to which one can go and, for an hour at a stretch, think, very nearly, of nothing, except the music and action which delight ones ear and eye. To much in the self-like reason for attendance upon our old pleasure ground. But, this year, Ravinia furnishes an example of a larger economic problem. Before the curtains parted on the opening night, when the first | act of "Pagliacci," one who called himself "the Prologue" applauded be- fore the curtains and sang, "Lignori, Lignori! We are but men." Indeed, artists are but men and women and have, like the rest of us, to live. It is better that we, who heretofore have encouraged them to live for our entertainment and inspiration, should not too quickly forsake them and their art. To some of the men of the orchestra we have listened for twenty-five years. But, be they of the original or the more recent per- sonnel, their work is always a joy. Of the work of the singers, certain bits linger insistently in the memory or this season's performances. The clarity of the colatura work of Miss Macbeth and the sweetness of Mr. Harold's notes in the first act of "Traviata;" the dignity of Mr. Adkin's "Athaniel," for the vocally and dramatically; Mme. Beriza's singing of the Thiam usic and her commencing interpretation of the role; the charm of Miss White's "Susanne;" Miss Mason's vocal beauty in the roles of "Nidda" and "Michaila;" the humor of Miss In- gram and Mr. Scott in Martha, and Mr. Scott's unmarkably thrill in the drinking son; and, last but not least, that delightful comedian, Francisco Daddi, with his excellent vocal method. Educational opportunity is another argument for Ravinia, With its early hour of closing, a family party can, with a clear conscience, include the older children. For the younger tots, an increasing effort is being made to give, on Thursday afternoons, programs suitable for children. The work of the singers has been most helpful in this. Thurs- day, August 2, is the date set for the Children's carnival. Monday, this season, is set aside as "Wagner Night." Great care has been taken in preparing these pro- grams, which will be appreciated by lovers of Wagner. WOMAN'S CORPS WILL OPEN NEW WORK SHOP Headquarters for Wilmette Women in This Division Are Opened in New Store Building This Week. TO ASSIST BUSINESS MEN Women to Help New Trier Com- mercial Association. The headquarters of the Woman's Corps of the Wilmette Home Guard have been moved to the store form- erly occupied by Miss Brehm. The building has been loaned for the use of this division by J. M. Brown, the owner. The Woman's corps will assist at the field day to be held under the auspices of the New Trier Commer- cial 16: at Skokie playfield. The association has offered an unsolicited donation to the Woman's corps of a part of the pro- ceeds. : The woman's committee of the State Council of National Defense, which has taken up the registration of the women in Illinois, is asking the co-operation of clubs and socie- ties in this work. The local unit has decided on a mass meeting for Wil- mette women, in order that they may understand the data wanted by the council. Miss Grace Packard, in charge of the work rooms of the corps, will assign materials and work for all women desiring to assist in the war work. Mrs. R. J. Mulvey, in her re- ports at the weekly meeting held on Tuesday, states that many calls for materials were received last week. Mrs. R. E. Ward reports that the following articles were finished by the women and shipped to the Chi- cago headquarters: one helmet, two pairs of socks, three comfort Kits, nine hospital shirts, eleven wash cloths, two wristlets, ten sweaters, thirteen scarfs, twenty-two convales- cent robes, twenty-nine pairs of pa- jamas and forty-four surgical sponges. association on August RRR Economy Classes. The Home Economics department, under the direction of Mrs. W. D. Lawrence, reports a very successful program was held at the Central school on Monday. Twenty women attended a demonstration, which was given by Miss Loy and Miss Lillian Smith. GARDEN PRODUCE SENT TO CHICAGO FOR POOR Wilmette Church Collects Vegetables Each Tuesday for Missions. The members of the Presbyterian church of Wilmette have been send- ing their surplus of garden vege- tables to church every Tuesday. Deacons of the church pack the fresh products in cases and send the cases to settlement houses and mis- sions in Chicago. The conservation of food and this charitable work is being taken care of by the people in shipping their surplus foods to Chicago, where the poor people are unable to enjoy home gardens. The committee in charge of this work invites everyone to help and vegetables left at the church on Tuesdays before 12 o'clock will be delivered to the Chicago social workers. EE CHURCH PEOPLE INVITE SOLDIERS TO WILMETTE Dinner Party and Special Services Have Been Arranged. The Christian Endeavor society of the Presbyterian church will en- tertain a group of soldiers from Fort Sheridan Sunday afternoon and eve- ning. Dinner will be served at 5 o'clock for the men, and a special musical program has been arranged for the evening services at 7:30 o'clock. Dr. J. M. Wilson will speak on "The Way of Peace," and Mr. Porter and Mr. Eilert will assist in the musi- cal entertainment. REEEEE Texas Gains. Incomplete registration figures from Texas, incomple because in that great state many evade regis- tration in that great stateoWecen tration, show that on Januarq 1, 197,687 cars and trucks were regis- tered. The registration January 1, 1916, was 137,867, and the increase 44 per cent. Texas estimates of the to- tal number of cars in the state place the figure at 215,000. Speakers Billed. Prof. George Dahl of Yale uni- versity and Rev. Edgar L. Williams, field editor of the "Standard," will preach at the Wilmette Baptist church during the absence of Rev. F. C. Stifler. ' Our Amber GLASSES Protect your Eyes from Sun Glare BORSH & CO., Opticians 118 South Dearborn St. CHICAGO Wilmette 195 TELEPHONES Chicago Central 948 McLaughlin & Kerwin Prodacers of SAND and GRAVEL Pits at Gross Point, Ill. Morter and Washed Torpedo Sand 29 S. Lasalle St. CHICAGO During the absence of Rev. F. Stifler, pastor of the Baptist church] the board of deacons will conduct} "church clinic" in August. Even] Wednesday evening meeting will held and "Diseases Fatal to t Church" wil be discussed. "Church Clinics." Painters & Decorator J. F. ECKAR 736 Elm St. Phone 484 REAL ESTATE LOANS Phone 162 I can place three good [i First Mortgages of i from $2500 to $5000 [ren at 6% interest, for ow= [i ners in this vicinity. P. W. Bradstreet Winnetka ; : We have bargains in desir! able homes and vacant in| all North Shore towns. Leif us send you a list of prop-| erty for sale or rent in your| favorite locality. | SEVERAL FINE FARMS| Chicago income property North Shore PROPERTY | | | | _or sale near Waukegan at attractive prices. ---~--to-exchange: RaBEE OTIS BUILDING - CHICAGO TELEPHONE MAIN 4724 m---------------------------------------- FOR EXCHANGE A new brick home in Kenil- worth, 10 rooms, 2 baths, hot water heat, sun and sleeping porches; beautifully wooded lot and near lake. Will exchange for modern home in Winnetka. PAUL SCHROEDER & CO. P. 0. BLDG., KENILWORTH PHONE WINNETKA 768 7 A 2 2 2 2772277720207 0777 Winnetka State Bank Capital $25,000.00 Surplus 5,000.00 3% on Savings Deposits Officers and Directors HENRY P. CROWELL, President of Quaker Oats Company VICTOR ELTING, Attorney. LOUIS B. KUPPENHEIMER of Kuppenheimer & Company Wholesale Clothing JOHN R. LEONARD of Bridge and Leonard Grain Commission Merchants. CARLTON PROUTY, Attorney. WILLOUGHBY G. WALLING, Capitalist HENRY R. HALE. Cashier. 2% LLL E0777 777 777 Fd 7777 Fd ddr zzarzrriiiiiaiizizididdididds 2 Ze 2d 727277707 e a TT TT TY TTT IN "A CHICAGO CITY A > TICKET OFFICE 137 South Clark St. VACATION JOURNEYS CLOSE TO HOME + JF CORES of delight- ful summer spots await you along the electric line. For in- stance, there is a pretty & Diamond Lake near # Area -- take the North Shore Electric train to Lake Bluff Junction and ride to Area. Close, convenient connec- tions with Pere Marquette steamers at Milwaukee for udington, Manistee. Frank- fort and Michigan points. The beautiful Wisconsin lake couutry is reached by connections withT. M. ER. & L. line running to Wau- kesha Beach, Pee- waukee, Delafield and Oconomowoc. Low rates of fare save you money. pe [@ Phone tral