Morning journal and courier., 1890-07-23

healthy. but well dressed. cut down their
fathers suits for the older boys, spongtng
and turning them. When can no longer
remodel my gowns for myself I can always
get kilt or coat out of them for the younger
children. A. package of dye will readily
change the color to any new and desirable
shade. One year buy for myself q black
silk, the next Henrietta cloth of some FASH
ionable shade, and which can renew at any
time BY dyeing black. By this means
have always two handsome street costumes.
Ny husband get one new suit a year, for
which he pays $S5. His other wearing sp-
parel brings his clothing bill up to $50, and |
he always makes q good appearance. re-
move my street costume the moment / come |
into the house. always wear soft fannels |
for house dresses-white In summer, dull, |
warm shades in winter. These are not
expensive and make over beautifully for the
children.
The shoe, stocking and hat bill for the
boys found the highest Of all, but $50 q
year covers our clothing expenses. might
| remark in passing that find 1t very salts
factory to buy the best grade of bslbriggan
hosiery, white or cream, for my husband and
| self, and bright colorsd stockings for the
| children. These dye fast black, and find
| them stronger and the color more durable
| than the most expensive grades of black cot
ton or Isle thread stockings. We have now
$3.50 left for table expenses. "Two hundred
Il huu uOliaIb Iot tue taUief near YOU
| exelaim. "Why, that is but generous meat
allowance!" Yes, We live on So week and
live well. / am sure there is not q more ap-
| petiKiug table set anywhere.
| PLENTY OF HEALTHTUL FOOD.
Ny children have never been sick for one
day, and their rosy skins and strong white
teeth give evidence of nourishing food. We
have an unvarying rule of meat only once a
day. Our butchers bill never exceeds SO
per month. We buy the cheaper pisces of
meat and cook them In a ssvory way, ex-
cepting our roasts, which are always of the
best. A roast of five pounds makes us three
dinners. The second day the meat is cut
from the bones and made mp into meat pie,
Icroquettes, or, If rare, we often slice 1t thin,
fry quickly in butter, spread. on neatly
trimmed toast and pour over all a rich gravy
made of cream, Drowned -four and seasoning.
| The third day the bones are cracked, vege-
table added and rich consomme is the re-
suit. We use great many oysters, CLAIMS
and fsh in their season. Our breakfasts are
always of fruit, cereals. brown bread or muf-
fins, gems or the like, with honey from our
bees, coffee Tor the adults and plenty of good
rich milk for the children.
For ten months during the year we have
from our beautiful AlderneY, which we have
named Butterfly, all the milk We can use.
} Butterfly gives eighteen quarts of milk daily
in the spring, averaging from sight to nine
In the wi1ter. We have fresh eggs the
whole year Though and plenty of spring
chickens for table use. Our garden, which
! my husband spades up in the mornings q
little at time and together we plant and
keep weeded, yields an abundance of sufa-
cient vegetables, 80 that during the summer
and early autumn we can be really extrava-
; gent and have Eve or six different kinds of
, VERSAILLES at the MONDAY dinner.
Our suppers are ft for a king. though
suitable to PEASANTS purse. A pudding, q
? salad, berries or other ripe fruit in season,
3 canned fruit during winter, with delicious
Q cream, suoh as no milkmsn ever supplies;
& chocolate, cocoa or tea, and cake; with
O cream, butter and eggs of our own cake ID
s reduced to q minimum of expense, and in
II its ever changing forms is always q part oi
+ our evening meal.
< Ny letter is long, but I must tell of on
9 summer outing. Ny husband 10 the forth
nate possessor Of big tent. This we pitc'
on different parts of the jersey coast duriu
successive sessons-not with the "maddin
throug," but off by ourselves in . quie
q nook. There we have an ideal summel
is With gun and rod we find the long days q
1. too short, and come back after two month
with o fund of health and happy mem
a. ries. During these two months "Butterny
is is rented out at ten dollars per month. Oh
II vegetables are sent down twice q week, ar
vs there is no accumulation of big black deb
to take from our summers pleasure.