The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-01
CHAPTER VI.

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THEM-TRIFLEs DO NOT EXIST IN HOUSEKEEPING
MANAGEMENT--A SERVANTS ALLO OwANCE-HoW
TO EXPEND TWENTY SEVEN sHILLINGs WEEK
THE ORDERING OF SEwING.w oRK-No BUTTONS
OFF sHIRTs-HOw To WASH SMALL THINGS.
My stay was not greatly prolonged with
Bertha. ] returned home, taking with me a
strong healthy girl, about eighteen, to whom
my children had been intrusted on my arrival
at her house. My husband had spent the last
ten days with US, so that we went back with
renovated health and spirits, and with some
considerable attainment OF experience in house
hold matters.
Bertha a one. ! remarked, "How different is
my income to yours"
'You forget how much more we have to ac-
compllsh with it, Yours is enough Tor all
reasonable puI poses; you cannot dress expen-
sively, nor keep company, nor command the
services of Cwo domestIC5-whch is no great
luxury after all. A lIiead of mine has ten, and,
not having housekeeper to see to them. her
lie Is perpetually worried with their contentious
and chickering's. You can pass through life very
happily if you Will only try, but TO do so plea
sanity you must be able to assist Yourself, and,
above all, the economy of little things must be
scrupulously adhered TO. Nothing must be
wasted. 1t would be quite impossible to give
you rules for every or any course OF action
to be adopted - your own Judgment must
guide you. You are more skilled IN domestic
affairs than when you first married, but there
is wide room Tor Improvement little Mllly.
You must acquire a more competent know
ledge OF coUkir g than you have, so as 10 enable
YOU to make the best use OF everything. You
must be your own housekeeper as 1 am. You
have seen me daily attend Elizabeth in the
kitchen, who, without any assistance and drec.
ton, would be as incapable OF sending up a
dinner properly cooked as the girl you take
back with you. l have given out to her every
day all the ingredients necessary for making
puddngs and pastry. IT | had intrusted her to
help herself to the sugar for the tarts, she
would have wasted by putting IN too much,
aud even an ounce too much OF this alone
would amount to twelve shillIugs year; the
same by butter, eggs, and milk, corn-hour, or
arrow.root You must learn the right proper
tlons OF every ingredient or material in cooking,
or the waste Will be pro0lgious, and the money
will insensIbly melt away. When Elizabeth
came first she told me she could make admira-
BILE Corn-hOur Duddlngs.
" How much do you use ! asked.
lone packet will make two puddings,
ma'am.
II stared at the girl with astonishment
g. '0ne packet will make eight good pudiings
each pudding must have one egg and pint and
half of milk said |.
"'Why, that quantity would be lost in the
saucepanP
"'Have no saucepan at all, then-using one
is q wastelul way Of making your pudding.
Weigh the corn-hour, put IT into the dish, CRATE
into 1t little nutmeg, and then mix it with a
little cold milk, just MS you would II you were
making starch. Make pint OF milk boil, ther
pour 1t on the cold mixture, stir II up well, bea
up one egg and two ounces OF moist sugar witt
pudding, mixing it well altogether, and bake 1t.
elizabeth succeeded well after this ana al
once sixpence was saved from waste. This fac
alone Will show you how waste is insensibll
made. A manufacturer makes his experiments
ana, if success crown his Efforts he en1eavor
to produce an article at the lowest possible cos
consistent with excellence. The same principle
should be carried out in the kitchen. Vast
benefits no one, but on the contrary, the ser
want or mistress Is greatly demorallzed by tn
habit Of wasting; TO such an one there is rege
enough. You must not mistake me, Milly;
half pound of butter would not be deliberatel
thrown away; but have known many servant
waste more than an ounce at time either D
making melted butter badly, or through care
lessness burning it,, or by using too much. Six
pence a week in loss goes theIe-twenty-sl
shillings year. Again, in the simple article G
frewood, Bridget was famous waster OF tina
article; although in your nelehOorhoOd it
rather an expensive ltem in housekeeping
enough was always heaped on to light one fir
that would amply suffice for three. You ma
smile, Mily, but it IS in little things that none
melts You would look at siXpence twice beior
you threw it away, bur this Is constantly don
in small matters "a kind OF waste whereby il
comes are silently diminished, You will lear
this in time"
81 shall learn many things in time, Bertht
but shall never learn to be niggard.n
''To be saving il not to be ngoardly
YOU come home weary and wetfooted and wi
take no proper stimulant, nor have fire
warm you, because of the expense this is to
piggardly. III you viii not allow your servan
proper lood, fire, and washing, on account of Il
expense, or prevent them from having prop,
fire o cook by, or necessary materials to us
this is to be niggardly and wasteful at the san
time. But to take care that they have sutficiel
ior their use, and no more, TO see that the fire
lowered after the cooKing is over, that candl
are not dared away, or gas lighted at imDrop
times, that soap is not left soaking in the wate
or clnders thrown away, or wood wastetul
burned, is no nIggardliness, but right and tr
economy, and by caring for which you
iustice 70 yourself. and act rightly towards yo
servants. IL is all very well for people who ha
more income than they need to permit waste