THE SAME OLD ADAM

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3048, 9 April 1917, Page 3

THE SAME OLD ADAM

AND EVE'S: "I TOU>YOU SOI" It seems to take Englishmen a long time to reafise that they cannot adequately meet the great emergencies of the times we are living in without the advico and co-operation of women. The recent food regulations which were brought into force in Britain show that even now they are as prone to rush into action affecting the welfare of the whole people without consulting the women whose special provinces they are attacking without first of all consulting them. The upshot of it all is usually, as in the food • restrictions, that they have to , acknowledge ■ the .error of. their ways and seek women's co-operation. Discussing the food restrictions that have been recently inposed upon . the people of Britain, "The Queen" says: —"The food"restrictions have under-, gone some modifications, which show pretty clearly to any who can read between the Unes that the authorities have been doing what they had better have begun by doing—consulted the opinion of women. The announcements -as to bones bought for soup, and the.purchase of suet or.frying fat, bear on the face of them the. evidence of- consultation with practical house.kcepers. , It was also satisfactory to hear, at the meeting at the Adelphi Theatre, that the Food Controller is enlisting the assistance of women in Ins department. It is. quite obvious that such a step was necessary. One had only to. talk to. a few men, at the. time when the food "regulations were first issued,..to realise how vague were their ideas on the subject. One actually heard men.talking of the sugar allowance as though no sugar appeared at their meals except in sugar basins, for use with tea or coffee, porridge, or stewed fruit. Many were genuinely amazed when they were reminded that sugar is an ingredient in most of the puddings they eat, and they began to be plaintively aware that they might, all unconsciously, have devoured their weekly fib. by perhaps Thursday, and be left with none for their for the rest of the week. Other"men, too, were equally ready to forget that they ate flour in any other form.than that of bread. .