San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-10-05

en'ifo'y on 'no 'hcome and the taste n,
the parties. In my parochial visit.
find many families of culture and ;.
tinement living we'll ona dollar a a.
families of six or seven persons A..
the same number of people will lead
life of miserey, although their proos,a
bill averages $50 to 800 month ana
half that amount goes to the insatiob,.
butcher. American women mala
great mistake when they use meat ..
the foundation of a meal. The CON
sumption is 30 per cent greater than y
should be, especially among people q,
sedentary pursuits. Besides increasing
the animal passions, it is the cause :,
three-fourths of the spleen and nina
tenths of the diseases. Billiousno..
and the most a,ute cases of inaamms.
tory rheumatism would be entirelv
cured by abstaning from meat diet
It may be well enough oncea day, but
deem it a positive injury oftener.
"Then woman are so ignorant about
going about things. They neither up.
derstand how to buy nor how to econo.
mize. Steak and roasts are the very
dearst kinds of meat, yet they are the
choice of nine out of every ten house.
wives. Where there are children stews
are infinitely better; they go further
and quite as nutricious. Instead Of a
heavy breakfast, wife can accustom
her family to dish of nice dry-boiled
oatmeal porridge with cup OF coffee
and a roll The coffee may be of the
best Old Government Java, and instead
of dropping q cupful into the pot, one
teaspoonful for each cup will suffice
provided, of course, the cook under.
stands how to make it. For dinners
15.cent soup bone will make an excel.
lent broth for the first course. If the
meat be cut of, minced with potatoes,
onions, bits of hard-boiled egg and eel.
cry tops, and baked in pie crust, an
excellent second dish will result. Fiji.
teen cents worth of bananas cut up in
cream, with white biscuits, cannot be
as desert. Canned mackerel,
Goldfish, whitefsh in season. tripe small
breads, liver and kidney may be used
with noticeable economy and gener'
ous allowance for a nice desert. Oh, l
could make you up most tempting
bill of fare at go cents day, notpr
sing Palmer House menu, but one
equally clean and we'll prepared"
"Do you imagine a family can live
comfortably on SIS week?" asked the
writer.
eyes, and save money-as said be-
ore, if the wife can manage. Ii
7oung woman, instead of studying art,
and other fashionable non.
ense would spend two terms in acook'
ng class, she would be better prepared
or the duties which she considers in
married. life so arduous. If she only
new the value and savoriness OF drip
,ings, fat and leftover remnants OF
neat for frying, several dollars a montn
ould be saved on lard.
Gas for furniture" she continued,
m strong advocate of home made
rticles. If necessary, could impro-
Use chairs, ottomans and footstools
rom barrels, soap and cracker boxes
have built my own bedsteads, wash
lands, sitting and bedroom lounges
hat would defy detection. If our htIle
rides had more taste they would scofn
hop curtains and find more beauty
nd finish in 20-cent drapery OF
retonne or dotted Swiss than dozen
air of SIG blinds. A pine table, rec
angular in shape, costs about 81 oO'
nd soft dimity drapery will hide TIC
sceptacle for shoes or medicine oo''
es beneath. Marble top tables pro-
ounce cold, hard and an enemy W
ozyness. I do not hesitate to forOia
ne in my home, and as for mantleSl
i've preference to my own WOODEN
lelves draped with felt ormomle clo!n.
In the course of further conversahon,
le lady expressed her opinion taas
mily comfort depended less upon tns
mily income than upon the ability u
10 housewife to make the best OF VIVA.
Ie could obtain. No young man. sue
ought, need have the slightest len
marrying whether he earned SlO OF
90, provided the woman he songI'