The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-03-08
LIGHT HOUSEKEEPING,
Mlnts From m Experience In Its
Delights and DISADVANTAGES.

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Mlnts From m Experiencs In ITS
Delights and Disadvantages.
Light housekeeping as usually con-
Quoted means living on bread and tea
or working twice as hard to produce a
given result as IL one were really keep
Ing house Properly managed, how
ever, 1t may mean homemaking, and
here are some hints, given In The
Kitchen Magazine, from the experience
OF one who has tested the delights and
disadvantages Of light housekeeping
for hve years. She says: 1t Is such
pleasure to me to have company when
please, without having to ask some
unwilling landlady If may; nor is 1t
without its pleasant side that can
eat what, when and as please with
out having to depend on some ones
convenience.
She who Is to be light housekeeper
should choose her room wisely, for on
that depends half her success. Let it
have the sun and two closets, If posi-
BILE. If there are not two closets, have
one corner of the room divided off
either for the kitchen part or for
clothing. Have the kitchen part liber-
ally provided with shelves. Make your
kitchen arrangements as complete as If
you had family. Why should you use
q bottle for a rolling pin and drawing
board for a bread board just because
you are cooking only for yourself?
Yes, know we all do that when we
begin. I did, but, having grown tired
of 1t, l found the rolling pin luxury
not above my reach. For a long time
made hashes with a knife and fork
Now have small sized chopper, one
of the machines. 1t saves time, and
really, you know, there is no reason
why you should treat yourself any
worse than your neighbor. You can
buy these conveniences few at time
and feel much more respectable using
the proper tools for any work.
Make every inch of space count in
the kitchen. Put up screw hooks and
hang all which can be hung. Have a
mop and wire dishcloth to save your
hands and tin or an earthen Jar for
your bread and cake. If you keep both
in the same jar. they won't dry, though
II you have a spice cake your bread
may taste Of 1t. Never keep crackers
with the bread. because they grow
soft. "
when you prepare your outfit, If you
are hard up let your kettle be a pail
into which you can set a smaller one.
Enameled ware Is far more satisfac-
tory than tin.
A small sheet iron spider you will
want. You can toast bread to perfec-
ton on this over your kerosene stove.
Have an oven so that when you get
tired Of bakers bread you can stir I'D
some biscuits for yourself.
The only advantage of chafing dish
over kerosene stove and spider is
its beauty. Alcohol is the dearest of
fuels and one Of the most unsafe.
Whatever you can cook in a chaGng
dish you can cook equally well with
the humber equipment Mt one-third
the cost.
OF course you do not want your room
to smell Of food, and IL when you have
finished cooking you viii put over your
fire a dish Of vinegar with some mixed
spices 1t never will. Fit the amount
Of vinegar and spice to the odor of
food you wish to kill. Let them boil
for half an hour. They form one of
the best disinfectants known, and your
room will have delightful and invig-
Grating fragrance.