The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-10-23
LITTLE ECONOMIES.
TO ACCOMPLISH THE SMALL
HOUSEHOLD SAVINGS.
They Will 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
able for nice kitchen floors that do
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. If the clothes have been
properly washed beforehand, such wa
ter is quite clean, it having been used
only to give the last touch of white
ness to 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 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 or strong soap powder has been
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 it on young weeds that are
springing up in the garden path. There
is generally a quantity of salt. often 9
pint or more, left in the bottom of the
freezer. II there are no weeC so kill
put it on an old plate, and, when dry
use it again in freezing cream.
Leftover coffee grounds make ;
good fertilizer for plants. AS they arr
rather strong, use only little aroun'
each plane, and mix well with tn
earth. Liquid coffee left over in tn
coffee pot after breakfast is much bet
ter than water to mix with stow
backing. It will make the stove shine
Alum and various articles are recon
mended for this purpose, but leftove
coffee is the best, and does not cos
anything, as it would otherwise b
thrown away.
Tea grounds should be saved, an
kept where they will not get mould!
to use when sweeping to lay the dus
/. Egg shells can be saved and used
settling coffee, as they are much be
ter for this purpose than anythin
else.
The water in which rice has bee
boiled is, if anything, more wholeson
than the rice itself. If it is boiled u
til thick after taking out the rice
can be used to advantage in thickeniI
soups and sauces. One cook box
recommends making it into jelly
blanc mango, after sweetening al
! iavoring it properly.
= Everyone knows that the water
which potatoes are boiled is excelle
= in making or renewing yeast
:. The country housewife should sa
all cornhusks and nutshells for sta
ing the fire in the cook stove. VIII
well dried, they make brilliant bla
= and will save time as well as kindli
: wood.
! One woman who has always had {
= viable luck with her flower garden
= ders all the SCOT that is taken from t
- chimney to be utilized around plan
- especially roses. 1t makes a good f
= tilizer and can be used to keep
bugs.
I 1t is foolish to indulge in misel
- economies if they take up valual
y time or are of no special advantal
= For instance, a sensible woman "
~ not save pea pods for soup, as Sol
a frugal French housewives are said
N do, because pea pods do not make go
n soup The ways of using articles
dinarily thrown away which are Civ
here are of actual advantage. TIL
are trifles, it is true; but the famil
quotation, ''Trifies make perfect
y and perfection is no trifle," applies
F" household management, if it applies
anything.