WAR AND WASTE.
[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECIAT01:1
Sin,—In your last issue you say that " it is essential that no bread should be thrown away," and suggest an appeal to the housewives. May I suggest that it is the men, not the women, who are wasteful ? Hare you any idea of the appalling waste which is going on at the soldiers' camps? I can assure you that the farmers or contractors who remove the waste have kept in some cases over one hundred pigs this winter with the good food, chiefly bread, which is thrown away. A few inquiries in the neighbourhood of any of these camps will prove the truth of my assertion. Why should the women be urged to use up all odds and ends while men throw away whole loaves uncut P—I am, Sir, Ac., AN ENGLISH Housewiwn.
[We apologize and crave leave to amend our plea. We trust that the women of England will force all men under their control—and, as Cicero says somewhere, which of us is not ?—to be less wasteful. As to the camps, a deputation of women would easily frighten the regimental authorities into better order.—En. Spectator.]
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