be accomplished if we could enlist these conventions on the side of
economy. Why, for example, should it not be considered "worse form" to
take on the plate good food that is not wanted and leave it, than to eat
peas with a knife? How greatly did an alliance with Mrs. Grundy support
morality in mid-Victorian days! If we could turn social observances from
encouraging extravagance to promoting economy, it would go far towards
eliminating national waste.


FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 8: See _Economist_, July 13, 1918.]




Part IV

REFORM




CHAPTER XVI

THE FIELD

_Above all things, order and distribution and singling
out of parts is the life of despatch._--FRANCIS BACON.