The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1874-02-07
Waste in Housekeeping.

| ing people, but they are not economical
Our housekeeping is proverbially wasteful
allowing leakage at every point, sufficient
in the aggregate, in many households, TO
support a European family. Some writer
! 1--WE know not to whom to give the credit, }
has made the following extensive. but by
no means complete enumeration
Much waste is allowed in cooking meats
Unless watched. the cook will throw out
water in which meat has been boiled
without letting it cool to take off the fat
or she will empty the dripping pan into
the swiIl l-pal. The grease is useful in
many WAYS.
AraiH bits of meat are thrown ont
which French cook wouid convert into
an excellent hash.
Flour is slf,.d IN was.cful manrer, OF
the bread pan is left with the dough stick
ing to it.
Pie-crust is left over, and laid by to sour,
instead of making few tarts for tea.
Vegetables are thrown away which
would be nice if warmed over for break
fast.
Cream ia allowed to monld and spoil,
mustard to dry in the pot, and vinegar to
corrode the castor.
Good knives are nsed for cooking in the
kitchen, silver spoons are used TO scrape
kettles, and forks for toasting bread.
Tea, roasted coffee. pepper and spices are
allowed to stand open and thus lose Their
strength.
Dried fruits not cared for in season be
come wormy, and sweet meats are opened
aud forgotten.
Vinegar is draw in basin. and permit
ted to stand until both vinegar and basin
are spoiled.
Soap is left in the water to diss olive, or
more used than is necessary and the scrub
brush is left in the water.
Barrels and tubs are left in the sun to
dry aud fall apart; tins put away without
being properly drie,: and rus,ed.
Molasses stands open and flies take pos
session.
Apples decay for want Of looking over.
Pork spoiIs for want Of salt, and beel
becaGse the brine wants scalding.
Ashes sre thrown out ca'eIessly. endan
sering the premises. and being wasted.
Clothes are being whipped to pieces by the
wind on the lines; fine cambrics are rub
bed on the washboard; and Iaces are torn
in starcl @g.
Table linen is thrown careless'y down
and aipped by mice; is put away damp
and Dni!dews or the fruit stains are for
gotten and the stains washed n, OF 'set."
Table napkins are used to wipe dishes,
and tea pots are melted on the stove.
Lard is not we'll tried out. and becomes
rancid, and rats destroy the "soap- grease
Bones are burned that might be broken
up and thrown into the compost heap.
Old shoes, woollen rags. and accu,nuls
tons are permitted to lie round loose in
stead of being composted for your tavorite
grape vines.
Sugar is spilled around the barrel, cot
fee from the sack, and tea from the chest
Wooden boxes are used to take up ash
es, then the box is pushed aside and for
gotten. Many family has been made
DOuseesS anu HoWc!esS III uiSnt py SuCA
an inadvertence.
Each Of the above is trife in itself
and yet in house where all these triiles
were "happening'-just imagine what a
place it would be. In these and many
other ways careless and inexperienced
housekeeper will waste without needing
nay, even without knowing that she
wastes. On the contrary, because she en-
tertans but little company, buys no fine
clothes, makes her own dresses, and cook:
| plainly. she may imagine that she is an
exceedingly economical women and very
superior hoasekeeper.