The Osceola times., 1883-06-30
How to Live Cheap.

1t has been said, and with more than
single grain of truth, that in nearly
every family in this country enough food
is wasted to keep family Of the same
size and means in Europe.
This waste begins in careless or un.
skilled buying, and ends, after the waste
of unskilled cooking, In the well filled
scrap bucket. The following hints and
suggestions will be found worth con.
sidcriHg. If faithfully brought into prac-
tice many family that now finds il
difficult TO make both ends meet will
discover the way out Of trouble and em-
barrasment.
The art of living economically and
well is an accomplishment which our
people know little about; and vet it is
one on which the question of indepen-
dence may exclusively turn.
The family of limited means which
| turns the scraps of broken victuals to the
best account, takes advantage of the
markets by avoiding the high priced ar
ticles, and limiting itself to those which
are cheaper and nearly as good and suf-
fers nothing to be wasted, will live com
fortably and save enough to secure a
comparative independence in the course
of wears, while another family in a ST.
milar situation that neglects these little
lessons will remain poor and depe ndent.
| 1t is not what man earns, but what he
saves, that decides the question of indie
pendence in this country.
The art of living includes the minor
arts of buying, marketing, cooking, serv-
ing, furnishing, and the other little de
tails which the Germans and French ex-
eel in, and which Americans too often
| hold beneath their notice. With a p,ac-
teal knowledge of these a family may
| live well and save money on the same
| stipend which another will entirely
| squander without securing an equal ,e-
gree of comfort.
The variety of food articles in this
country is so great that there are few oc-
casions when a thrifty housekeeper may
not be able to secure a comparatively
cheap dinner, even when many staples
are high. Ii is true, when meat and po-
tatoes are high families of small means
find it hardship. But there are thous-
ands of persons in the community per-
forming no hard manual labor who do
not need meat and potatoes three times
a day, nor even once day. Soup-the
art of making which is one which every
family ought to acquire-may be pre-
pared with few bits of flesh and bone
and vegetables at a trifling cost, and
when skillfully made goes far toward
compensating for the absence of meat.
Oatmeal which is nearly always cheap,
is wholesome, nutritious, and abundant
in the properties of muscular fibre. Corn.
the cheapest of all grains raised in the
country Possesses capacities for transfer
nation into food which are strangely
nc Elected. 1t may be eaten in the form
o. bread, meal porridge, hominy, or grits.
in each of which it presents different at
fractions. Eggs, during larger portion
of the year are cheap and always palat-
able and nutritious the lower grades of
died fruits are rarely expensive; and all
through the summer and part of the win
ter the markets generally abound in
certain kinds Of vegetables that NAV be
had at triiling cost.
We are not limited to one or two ar
ticles of cheap food in this country. Our
soil and climate are generous bevond
those of other lands in yielding variety
OF life-sustaining products and little
systematic experimenting in buying.
preparing, cooking, and saving will en-.
able any thrifty family to live in comfort
even when high prices place neat and
potatoes almost beyond their reach"