Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-02-04
HOW TO LIVE CHEAPLY.
Waste Makes The Chief Expense of
Housekeeping.

From Harper's Bazaar
Just as our furniture, our clothes, our brio
a-brac and ornaments have become more
snowy and various with the rapidly growing
wealth of the last twenty-five years, SO our
table expenditure has increased. No doubt
the choice Of food is wiser, and the cooking
Of it BETTER than it Yves a quarter of a CEN
turYs ago. There is less fragrant frying and
more sagacious stewing than in roseate
youth. But against this certain good is to
be- set the equally certain evil that our din
ners are more and more sacrifice to gluttony
or vanity. or both They cost too much both
IN money and in thought. The rich, of
course, may do they please the poor must
do as they can. But the great: host OF the
comfortable and well to do, who think they
cannot afford books and pictures, and travel,
and music and spend more on their palate
than these necessities would cost, are the Gull
prits with whom we have to DEAL
Probably no man is better citizen or more
exemplary husband and father for the ameli-
Grating influence of strawberries in March or
tomatoes in May. No woman is greater or
nament to her sex who makes of her lunch
cons minor dinner, in abundance and cost,
and of her breakfasts q minor luncheon. Not
to have wholesome, agreeable and even ele-
CANT table, if cne Gun afford it, is niggard-
illness. But to spend more upon the stomach
than ON the brain, to give the sense OF taste
pleasures denied to the higher senses of hear
ing and seeing, is a vulgarity. AS rule, it
is the waste rather than the necessary outlay
which makes the chief expense of housekeep-
ing. But that is a matter which the mistress
can control far more than she generally does
And it should be matter of honor for every
girl who accepts the pleasure, anu aicnities
vi m--..eu lie to accept also it's minutest re-
sponsibilities, and make herself faithful
steward.
We know of one housekeeper who resolved
that in this expensive city housekeeping
should be found cheaper than boarding, and
better, and she proved her fifth by. her works.
Her table allowance is l6ss than sig q week
for family OF five, including two servants.
Her dinners always include excellent soup,
salad, fruit and the after dinner superluity
of tea or Coffee besides the substantial course
of meat and vegetables, and dainty and
endlessly varied dessert. Her breakfasts are
excellent, tha luxury Of ciearii being always
supplied for oatmeal and coffee. The child's
early dinner is always fresh, sufficient and
tempting, and the simple luncheons are so
good that dinner becomes an insignificant frl-
ture event. This lady eivEs On hour day
to the composition of her bills of fare, per-
sonal review of the contents of ice chest and
larder, and a careful and minute instruction
of her slow witted but obedient kitchen maid
IN the duties or that day. Her husband re-
CARDS the bills of marketman and grocer with
complacency and rises up to call her blessed.
g can do it, she explained to despairing
young wife, because there is literally no
waste in lny kitchen not a bread crunlb, not
a teaspoonful of milk, not a pellet of drip
pings. 1t was very irksome at first. but now
! enjoy making two dishes grow where one
grew before You like to find good bar
gain, and this kind of housekeeping is the
best of good bargains. Besides il a thing is
to be done at ALL there is a certain high sat
isfaction in doing it admirably, that compen-
safes you for much wear and tear"
Their Name is Legion.
Legions of people have had their lives made mis-
cradle by Piles. This painful difficulty is often in
duced and always aggravated by Constipation
Kidney-Wort is the great remedy for all affections
Of this kind It acts as gentle catharc. promotes
q healthy action of the bowels, and SootEes and
heals the named surfaces. It has cured hundreds
of where all other remedies and applications
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Advice TO Mothers.
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for chill
dren teething is the prescription of one of
the best female nurses and physicians in the
years with never failing success by millions
of mothers for their children. During the
process of teething it's value is incalcllable.