The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-09-04
LITTLE ECONOMIES.
TO ACCOMPLISH THE SMALL
HOUSEHOLD SAVINGS.
They VIII Aid the Thrifty Housewife
In Making : Few Dollars Co
Round--Making Use Of
Left-Overs.

Soap bark left over after cleaning
dress goods can be used 10 advantage
in washing floors. Ii is especially suit
able for nice kitchen floors that dc
not need a scrubbing brush.
The boiling soap and water in which
clothes have been boiled is good for
washing cheap kitchen floors that are
not oiled. II the clothes have been
properly washed beforehand. such wa
ter Is quite clean. it having been used
only 70 give the last touch OF white
ness 70 them. Bits of soap that are
too small to use should be laid aside
for laundry days, when they can be
melted and put in the wash boiler
thus saving the cutting up of a new
cake OF soap.
A practical book on gardening. re-
Gently published. directs the country
housewife TO save every particle OF
soapy water. such as dish water and
laundry water, for watering the roots
OF plants. OF course. water in which
soda OF strong soap powder has beer
melted cannot be used
Instead Of throwing the melted ice
and salt water left in the freezer after
freezing cream down the wastepipe OF
sink, pour II on young weeds that are
springing up in the garden path. There
is generally quantity Of salt. often q
pint or more. left in the bottom of the
freezer. II there are no weeds to kill
put 1t on an old plate. and, when dry
use it agar in freezing cream.
Leftover coffee grounds make
good fertilizer for plants. AS they are
rather strong. use only little around
each plant and mix well with the
earth. Liquid coffee left over in the
coffee pot after breakfast is much bet
ter than water to mix with stove
blacking. 1t will make the stove shine.
Alum and various articles are recon-
mended for this purpose, but leftover
coffee is the best, and does not cost
anything, as it would otherwise be
thrown away.
Tea grounds should be saved, and
kept where they will not get mouldy,
to use when sweeping 10 lay the dust.
Egg shells can be saved and used in
settling coffee. as they are much bet
ter for this purpose than anything
else.
The water in which rice has been
boiled is. II anything, more wholesome
than the rice itself. If 1t is boiled un
til thick after taking out the rice II
can be used to advantage in thickening
soups and sauces. One cook book
recommends making 1t into a jelly or
blanc mango, after sweetening and
flavoring it properly.
Everyone knows that the water in
which potatoes are boiled is excellent
in making or renewing yeast.
The country housewife should save
all cornhusks and nutshells for start
ing the fire in the cook stove. When
well dried. they make brilliant blaze
and will save time as well as kindling
wood.
One woman who has always had en-
viable luck with her flower garden or
ders all the SCOT that is taken from the
chimney to be utilized around plants,
especially roses. II makes a good fer
tilizer and can be used to keep off
bugs.
It is foolish to indulge in miserly
economies If they take up valuable
time or are of no special advantage.
For instance, a sensible woman will
not save pea pods for soup. as some
frugal French housewives are said tc
do. because pea pods do not make good
soup. The ways of using articles or.
dinarily thrown away which are given
here are of actual advantage They
are trifles. it is true; but the familiar
quotation, "Trifles make perfection
and perfection is no trifie," applies to
household management, if it applies to
anything.