The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-02-15

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handS. and . Tin can or earthen jal Tor
your bread ana cake II you keep both
IN the same Jar they won't dry. though
e you have q spice cake your bread
may taste Of II. Never keep crackerS
With the bread. because they grow
soft. scald the jar every week and let
Il sun an hour.
When you prepare your OUTFIT Il you
are hard up let your Kettle be a pail
into which yoglean set smaller one.
Agate ware Is lar more satisfactory
than tin. Ny experience would teach
me never to buy anything Of tin again.
A small sheet-iron spider you VIII
want. You can toast bread 70 perfec-
ton on this over your kerosene stove.
Put the bread into the pan when the
latter Is cold and let Il heat With the
pan Il you like your toast crisp al
through. II not, heat the pan and then
put the slices Of bread IN Il, II covered
It toasts quicker.
Probably you viii have TO use a kero-
sene stove, aS tandtadies are ayerss TO
supplying gas for stoves, and Il you
have to pay extra fol-. Il you pay twice
as much for Il a. It 10 worth. Ny kero-
sene bill Is never over fifteen cents a
week, rarely that, and roast and boil
meat and vegetables, make bread and
cake and have a real honey time with
many friends. II you can AFFORD It get
one of those two-hole stoves which
have a stand and burn with a blue
fame like gas. They heat much more
quickly than the other stoves and are
not 50 likely to smoke. Have an oven,
so that when you get tired Of bakers
bread you can stir up some biscuits for
yourself. II you cannot AFFORD that
kind Of a stove get two two-burner
stoves, which are better than one stove
with three burners because you can
cook two things at the same time. The
only advantage of a chaGng dish over a
kerosene stove and spider is Its
beauty. Alcohol is the dearest Of fuels
and one Of the most unsafe. Whatever
you can cook in chaang dish you can
cook equally well with the humber
equipment at one-third the cost.
OF course, you do not want your
room to smell of food and. II when you
have finished cooking you viii put over
your IRE a dish Of vinegar with some
mixed spices, It never will. Fit the
amount Of vinegar and spice to the odor
ofifood you wish to kill Let them boil
half an hour. They form one OF the
best disinfectants known, and your
room viii have a delightful and invlg-
Grating fragrance. This win destroy all
unpleasant scents, even such as onion
and fried fish. There really Is no ex-
cuse for unpleasant odors about ones
house or rooms, II this fact about the
vinegar and spices was more generally
known and used there would not be so
many stuny houses.
II you live in one room you Just be
doubly careful to give IT much freah air
and sunlight or It will prove unhealthy
for you. The life Of the air is soon alb
sorbed when. one IS much in the room
and It must often be renewed. The
failure to open the window will result
in the light housekeeper having head
ache as the reward Of her labors. The
spiced vinegar is a specific for head
ache. probably because 1t sweetens the
air There is no reason per Sc why
light housekeeping should not be as
healthful. profitable and pleasant as
any housekeeping ard it certainly is
more economical and homeiike to one
with an instinct for home than board
ing ever can be. The light housekeep-
er's fayorite song III she keeps her
house property always is. BE It ever
so humble there's no place like home"
I'D. NJ. Morrell in the American Kit
chen Magazine.