SPIN FOR VICTORY

Southland Times, Issue 24498, 28 July 1941, Page 7

SPIN FOR VICTORY

SCHOOLGIRLS’ EFFORTS On Saturday morning in this column the Women’s War Service Auxiliary made an appeal for spinning wheels. In other parts of New Zealand similar efforts have been made to relieve the shortage of wool for comforts for men h the forces, and the ancient craft of spinning has been revived. Many girls at the Dannevirke High School now spend much of their lunch hours in spinning. They are a small section of the larger “Tiki Knitting Circle” in the town ’ hich has “adopted” a North Sea minesweeper and her crew of 30 men for the duration of the war and knit and spin clothes for them. Much of the High School girls’ work, fine work, too, has been done on hand splindles made by the boys’ woodwork class. The girls, specially since the wheels arrived, have taken with commendable enthusiasm to this ancient craft and the varied operations that the preparation of the wool involves. Already balaclavas, socks, pullovers and sea-boot stockings of their spinning are on their way to the North Sea. KEEPING FIT RIGHT FOODS TO EAT In these times when greater calls are being made every day on our physical strength and nervous energy, we can help ourselves to keep fit and stand the extra strain by eating the foods mentioned in the following diet: It is suggested that this list, which appeared in the New Zealand Nursing Journal, should be kept in a prominent place in every home and that there should be a periodic “check-up” of the diet with it. PROTECTIVE FOODS Milk; eggs or cheese; vegetables, fruits, specially raw; butter; meat; fish; Marmite; Bemax or wheat germ; yeast. These are the foods rich either in first-class proteins or minerals or vitamins, all of which are necessary for the growth of the young and the maintenance of health and well being in the adult. SUPPLEMENTARY FOODS Cereals; fats; sugars. These supply energy for work and play and for sustaining warmth, but do not promote growth and do not maintain good health. TO KEEP FIT YOURSELF If you are aiming at optimum nutrition and want to keep fit, check your intake of protective foods by asking yourself whether each day you have taken the following protective foods:— One pint of milk; one orange or some other raw fruit; one egg or some dish made with egg, or one ounce of cheese; some porridge or brown bread or marmite or wheat germ; an average helping of meat or fish, including liver once a week; plenty of vegetables, including one green.