Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-09-07
LITTLE ECONOMIES.
TO ACCOMPLISH THE SMALL
HOUSEHOLD SAVINGS.
'ney VIII Aid the Thrifty Housewife
IN Making a Few Dollars Go
Round-Making Use Of
Left-Overs.

soap bark left over after cleaning
dress goods can be used to advantage
IN washing floors. 1t is especially suit
apie for nice kitchen floors that do
not need a scrubbing brush.
The boiling soap and water in whic.
clothes have been boiled Is good for
washing cheap kitchen floors this /. are
not oiled. II the clothes have been
properly washed beforehand, such wa
ter Is quite clean, 1t having been used
only to give the last touch Of white.
ness to them. Bits Of O that are
TOO small to s should be laid aside
Tor laundry days, when they can be
melted and put In the wash boiler,
n 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 n
laundry water, for watering the roots
OF plants. OF course, water in which
soda or strong soap powder has been
melted cannot be used.
Instead of throwing the melted ice
n salt water left in the freezer after
freezing cream down the w~astepipe or
sink, pour it on young weeds that are
springing up in the garden path. There
Is generally a quantity of salt, often a
pint or more, left in the bottom of the
freezer. If there are no weed9 70 kill
put 1t on an old plate, and, when dry
use 1t again in freezing cream.
Leftover coffee grounds make a
good fertilizer for plants. As they are
rather strong, use only a 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
backing. 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 to lay the dust.
Egg shells a 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. If anything, more wholesome
than the rice itself. If it is boiled I'M
til thick after taking out the rice it
can be used to advantage in thickening
soups and sauces. One cook book
recommends making it into a jelly or
blanc mango, after sweetening and
fiavoring 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 a brilliant blaze
and will ave time as well as kindline
wood.
One woman who has always had en-
luck with her flower garden or
ders all the SCOT that is taken from the
chimney to be utilized around plants,
especially roses. 1t makes a good fer
tilizer and Ear be used to keep OF
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 oma will
not save pea pods for soup, as some
frugal French housewives are said to
10, because pea pods do not make good
soup. The ways of using articles or
1inarily thrown away which are given
here are of actual advantage. They
are triies, it is true; but the familiar
quotation, "Trifles make perfection
perfection is no trifie," applies to
household management, If it applies to
anything.