Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1918 — Good Work for Mush. [ARTICLE]

Good Work for Mush.

Did it ever occur to you what the word “ipdy” really means? It’s the Anglo-Saxon word “hlafidge,” “hlaf meaning “loaf’ and “dlge” meaning “kneader.” So that a lady, in the original understanding of that title, is simply a bread-maker. How far we have traveled in these sophisticated and still brutal modern times from the sense of that term! But just as war in its offensive and defensive movements reverts to many mediaeval practices, so In domestic particulars wo -are going

back to first principles. We used to consider first our Important relatives. Now we do a good deal of thinking about relative importance. The big question today is not “Who are you?” but “What can you do?” Jay Cooke, 3d, the federalyfood administrator for Philadelphia, says that if we’re going to shove 75,000,000 bushels of wheat to the allies in four months we must — each of us—get along with two loaves of bread, Victory bread, a week. It’s easy enough if we turn to the substitutes we have plentifully at hand. Eat

mush —but don’t talk it. —Philadelphia Public Ledger.