The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-10-25
6 Waste Not, Want Not"

: The young housekeeper often thinks
that because she cooks plainly, spends
little for dress and INDUCES in few lux
uries, she is really very economical.
just let us mention few ways in which
we find her in error. How often she
goes to the kitchen ill-prepared for the
work to be done. How much better to
have a common dress, expressly for the
purpose, than to spoil valuable one
that is worth a dozen such. A large
calico apron, with sleeves, is an inn
portant adjunct to a lady's wardrobe,
If she is ever actively employed in her
domestic arrangements, for it can be
readily donned or laid aside.
1t is the little foxes spoil the
vines;'' the thousand and one little
leaks that often tell SO disastrously on
the husbands pocket. As it is not what
we read, but what we remember, that
makes us learned, so it is not what is
made, but what is saved that makes one
rich. .,-1e....
The dry bread is cast aside, and it
can be used in a score of ways; the
broth from boiled meats is thrown out
without utilizing even the fat that rises
on the top when cold; bits of meat are
thrown out which should go into the
stock-kettle or contributed to a good
stew, or be otherwise warmed up for
breakfast; flour is sifted in a careless
manner and spilled, and the dough left
sticking to the sides of the bread-pan,
or, perhaps, scraped off with silver
knife or spoon; more paste is made for
pies than is needed. and is laid by to
sour and become worthless instead of
being made into tarts or patties for to-
morrow; little cake or muffin batter
is left to spoil instead of being baked;
cold pudding is thrown into the waste
pail, when, by steaming, it could be
made las good as new for another
meal, or, like rice pudding, used in
other forms; vegetables are discarded
because cold, when they could be nicely
warmed up for use; dish towels are
lost, and table napkins are used in their
place; soap is left in water to dissolve
and waste, and the scrubbing pail is
set upon the carpet without even a
newspaper under it; in using Bath
brick, rotten-stone and whiting as
much again as is necessary is gotten
out and carelessly scattered; the scrub
bling brush is left in the water
to soften, and the pals and other
wooden-ware left by the fire to scorch,
or in the sun to fall to pieces; chamber
pals are allowed to rust for the want
Of coat Of paint; tin-ware is not dried;
much less secured, and the iron-ware
is left damp to rust; the carving-knife
is used, by the cook, in hot fat. and the
temper taken out of the steel; silver
spoons are used to scrape kettles, the
iron ones laying unused in the drawer
silver forks are used to toast bread, the
toaster hanging within arms length,
the rinsingS from sweetmeats and
skimmings and preserves are thrown
away, when they make excellent vine
gar; mustard is allowed to dry up in
the pot, and become unfit for use be
cause too much was mixed, or for want
of the cover which lays alongside; .
few drops Of vinegar spilled on thu
caster corrodes it; tea and coffee CAMS
tiers are left open for the strength t.
escape; spices are left uncovered K
lose their favor and become insipid
] the stopper islost from the molasse'