Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-12-15
H O U S EHOLD HIN rs

How many people will subscribe to the
opinion that miserable housekeeping Is
the chief source of sQualid poverty To
begin with. a woman can keep her house
clean II she Is as poor as the proverbial
church mouse; water Is cheap and plenty,
and elbow grease is the best soap In the
world. Yet in the homes Of the very poor
dirt and filth are generally the one luxury
found In the matter Of preparing food or
buying the cheaper nutritious articles nine
tenths Of womenlxind are as ignorant as
though 1t made no difference physically or
financially what one ate. just so the ach-
ing void is filed with something. Again,
half the housekeepers either do not know
or do not care about setting forth made"
dishes prepared from the scraps left over
so that they will be appetizing. hence the
scraps are thrown away. Such ignorance
is criminal. A woman who knows how to
save thesscraps has proved the old saying,
"a benny saved Is two pence earned and
can make her husbands or her own earn
ings go as far again as the woman who
buys fresh food for each meal rather than
take the time and trouble to arrange ap-
petizing dishes from the left overs"
In the kitchen of the careful woman not
a scrap of bread, 4 bit of meat, spoon
full of potato, q drop of milk, ever goes to
waste. She knows to the yolk of an egg
just how much Is needed to make a cake
for four people, or an Omelette for SIX,
and she does not throw in the extra one
for good measure, for that would be waste
full. and. besides. make the omelette or
cake a failure. The extra egg will cost
cents only, but 1t viii make a sufficient
dressing for salad an addition to
school lunch, an appetizer for sick MEM
Der of the family. clear the coffee for two
or three days. finish the recipe for pan
nf ah nf q
chops. and though 1t does cost but
cents, II the use Of 1t extravsgantly emp
ties the egg basket IL may leave her In the
lurch just at time when she needs just
one egg. and has to prepare a much more
expensive dish just because one egg Is not
obtainable in time. So it is with waste
everywhere in the culinary department.
The woman who dislikes the study of do
nestle economy commits crime when
she marries.
Here is an oyster dish that is delicious.
Make a thick gravy of pint of cream, in
which two tablespoonfuls of flour and two
of butter have been mixed; season with
pepper, salt and mace. Add to this two
dozen fresh oysters. that have been
steamed in their own liquor. stir them up
and serve hot: You will like it immensely.
A housekeeper who has been at the bust
ness longer than she cares to tell says
that the way to bait a trap for rats is to
use fresh oyster, and that it never fails
to do the business.
Never salt before cooking any meat
that you are going to broil or fry; 1t draws
out the juices which constitute the nutri-
ment Of the meat. Never stick a fork in a
piece Of meat that you are roasting, broil-
ing or frying, as that breaks the outside
soaring and let's the juice escape. The
whole method of cooking beef, unless for
the express purpose of extracting the es-
sence, is to retain all the juices. You
might as well eat sole leather as a piece
of steak or a chop that has been sailed
before cooking and speared full of fork
holes in turning.
woman hates to get her nice, new
shoes wet, because it spoils them 80, but
with care the wetting will not hurt them
much. AS soon as you can remove the wet
shoes do so. and rub them well with a soft
rag, to get some of the dampness out and
to take off all the mud then rub them
with a cloth satura ted with kerosene Get
as much of the oil into them possible
and then fill them as full of dry oats as
you can and set them aside for a few
hours. when apply another coating of kerr
osene. The stiffness will have disappeared
and the shoe will be in good shape when
you want to don 1t again. Never try to
put on a low shoe unless you have shoe
horn; you will be sure to stretch 1t out of
shape in the back and make 1t ill-fltting.
Keep the buttons sewed on your shoes and
good strings in your laced boots. unless
you want the men to say you are q
SLOUGH" Have paste patch put over
the first sign Of a break in your shoe. and
they will keep in shape and last twice as
long Buy good Shoes If possible Cheap
shoes and cheap gloves are a snare for the
unwary. They get out of shape, are ILL
fitting and do not wear well. 1t Is false
economy to buy cheap foot or hand shoes.
The very incest way to serve turnips,
which should always accompany roast
duck, is to peel and boil them whole till
they begin to grow tender; then lift out of
the water and slice crosswise; let the
slices be about an eighth of an inch thick
Put the slices in dish, sprinkle with salt