There is the waste due to thoughtless extravagance in supplying our tables, a common fault of which the majority of American people are guilty. Thus at every meal in the home, or public eating place, the average individual invariably insists on having a great deal more than he needs, often more that he can possibly eat - the remainder is thrown away.

From the Independent we take the following:

"What is needed is the individual cultivation of the custom of taking no more food on the plate than one expects to eat, and then eating it all unless it proves unpalatable or excessive. If this practice were universal, we should have enough to put up a palatial postoffice in every hamlet, pension all descendants of all the soldiers, build the biggest navy in the world, and carry out any of the schemes of social improvement urged upon us".

Even in times of peace the world's needs are great enough to demand conservation of resources in every way possible and the "Gospel of the Clean Plate," so impressed upon our minds in times of stress, should never be forgotten in times of prosperity, and the admonition to "gather up the fragments that nothing be lost," should be a rule of daily living, however abundant our supply.

So we find that Food Conservation means body conservation and health; that the need for food economy can have only a most beneficial effect upon the American home, and that the educational value of the present Food Campaign will prove to be far beyond estimation.

The problem of feeding the family with the least expense, the least food waste, and the best results in a sufficient and balanced food supply thus becomes one of fascinating interest; one that makes of the housewife a scientist as well as an artist; raises home keeping to the dignity of a profession, and will in time of the greatest prosperity do more for the nation in conservation of resources and in race betterment than can in any other way be accomplished.

The woman of the land, the housewife, the mother in the home thus becomes in this way, as well as in many others, the power that rules the world, builds the nation and shapes the future destiny of the race.

"Much food is in the tillage of the poor; but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment".