Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1892-08-18
HOUSEHOLD DON'TS.
Detroit Free Press Household.]

Be little lazy whenever you can.
IL Don't forget to be careful in lit
tie things. There's no one for
whom | feel sorrier than the hard work
ing man whose wife keeps dropping his
earnings into the leaky we'll of eXtrava-
gance.
Don't forget that pennies make dimes
and dimes dollars and that by careful
ness you can save little fortune by the
years end.
Don't let soap lie in the water; don't
leave dish towels for mice to destroy
don't throw out water in which you had
cooked meat without skimming off the
grease for soap; don't throw out nice bits
of meat that could be minced or fried
with bread crumbs and an onion; don't
leave the bread pan with the bread stick
ing to it; don't let the piecrust you have
left over sour before you use it; instead
of that make some little tarts for tea.
Don't throw away any food that could
be warmed over-some things are better
for their second cooking. Don't leave
wooden or painted buckets near the stove
to be ruined. Don't scrape kettles with
good knives or silver spoons. Don't let
rust get so thick on your knife blades
that brick-dust won't remove it. Don't
let cream stand around in cups or the
like to sour or mold. Don't forget to put
the cork back in the molasses jug, or to
cover the sugar key. Don't omit to
scald your milk pans and pitchers well
once day. Don't keep vinegar in tin,
for both tin and vinegar to be spoiled.
Don't keep garbage on hand until it sends
its death warning through the house.
Don't let vinegar weaken on your pickles
nd lon3t Of la,
cheese mold-throw it out if you cannot
use it up when fresh. Don't let bread
grow musty-make it up before it grows
past using into pudding and bread cakes.
Don't throw away bag of soft, stale
crackers. Put them in a big, shallow
pan and let them get crisp again in
moderate oven. Don't burn old bones
make soup of them. Don't throw away
your wood ashes-make lye to make soap
of. Don't put your clothes on the line
and leave them to the mercy of the winds.
Don't dig with one side of your broom
until it looks freakish, or use your best
broom to scrub with. Don't kill yourself
washing when little washing powder
or ammonia will help you so willingly.
Don't use napkins or tablecloths to wipe
dishes with-don't.
Don't let the ashes choke up your
CRATE and so burn it out don't keep big
fire in the range when you've no need of
it. l have had domestics who kept a
blazing fire from meal to meal with no
use for it during the interim, because
they were too lazy to build another fire;
whole dollars fell into the bottomless pit
in the buying of coal for those fires. Pm
wiser now.
Don't make beds too early in the morn
ing. I'd rather be little slow with bed
making than too smart. Don't sleep in
a room without good ventilation. Don't
expect dishes to wash themselves-.jump
right at them and get them out of the
way before it's time to set the table
again. Don't forget to put water into
washtubs, pals, ETC., between Mondays.
Don't make yourself iron the day after
you have washed. Rest for a day.
Don't awaken anyone with loud scold-
ing or sudden pushings. Call softly and
bring the wandering spirit back to its
earthly tenement with caressing little
pats and gentle tones. Don't find fault
with anybody at meal time. I've par
taken of breakfasts that were torture
to endure-of dinners that were horrible
to remember-of suppers that were an
agony. Don't spoil this pleasant van
foreground, where good humor should
preside, where jokes and ijests and merry
gibes should rout all thought of anything
unpleasant, where discord should find no
fOothold and the dinner of herbs tastes
Don't think you can bring the whole
idiotic as that-and don't borrow trouble.