Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-11-14
How Two Bright Women Made
Tidy Sums of Money at Home.

The using up of left-oyers is something
that is daily study TO every housekeep-
or If things are being wasted there X
sufficient cause for worry, and usually
she sets about remedying the evil Bur
there is an element of newness about one.
woman's methods.
Her care for the left-OverS has brancbpd
ont TO include the corner grocery. with
its fruits and vegetables After two
wears trial she has found out that her
thoughtfulness pays.
at worried me-" she said, ''to see The
vegetables and fruits at my grocer's
wither and dry up. to be finally thrown
away Nobody wants to buy vegetables
that are not quite fresh and so all the
time a big waste is going on.
II thought the matter over and finally
determined that | would make him !.
proposition. 1t was this, that he would
allow me to take all vegetables and fruits
that were not fresh enough to bring the
best prices and preserve or pickle them
on shares. He was to dispose OF them
in his shop
''He was quite willing and now for two
years l have been making as many
pickles and preserves as | have the time
TO give to the work. All of his left-overs
are sent to me, and l make them up and
send them back to be sold at a fair price
His store has gained the reputation of
having homemade pickles and preserves
and since there is always a demand for
such things, he is pleased not only TO
have his unstable fruits and vegeta bles
saved, but to sell the preserves and
pickles.
Last year my share of the profits
was S135. When you consider that !
made no investment except my own fine
and labor, | think that you will agree
that l did pretty well. But you must re-
member that | do not go for n summer
holiday, but remain in town during the
summer and go away at the season when
there are the fewest vegetables in the
market.
AT present l make the Teft-overs'
from six groceries. and l could get as
many more had | the time. The yegp-
tables l use are not decayed or much
withered. | fake them always on the
second day, some varieties on the evening
of the first, and in that way they are rs
fresh as those used by the usual pre-
servers.
The grocers Furthermore are com
PEELED to have fresh supply. and they
themselves say that when such fact
becomes known in their trade it is of the
greatest benefit"
The soup kettle should play promi
rent part in every household according to
culinary writer's. 1T does, literally, in the
household of another woman In this
case it is the scraggy bits of meat and
the good soup bones from the butchers
shop that arouse her saving zeal.
These are made into stock. put ND in
jars, labelled neatly, then sent back to the
shop to be sold on somewhat the same
share and share alike plan that has
proved so remunerative to the woman
who looks with such pride at her rows of
preserves on the grocerS' shelves.
There are any number of persons who
are only too glad to buy soup stock. 1t
saves them work besides a large amount
of gas or other fuel. BY not having the
stock ready, they often throw away
many things that could otherwise have
been used in making soup.
With the homemade soup stock in
sight at the butchers shop for sale at
very moderate price, the question takes
on different aspect, and soup becomes
daily friend. ''The work is not disagree
able,' says the woman who claims to
have discovered this particular field. "and
from the meat that used to be wasted |
now make several hundred dollars
year. "-Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.