The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-10-02
LITTLE ECONOMIES.
TO ACCOMPLISH THE SMALL
HOUSEHOLD SAVINGS.
They Will Aid the Thrifty Housewife
in Making a Few Dollars Go
Round-Makine Use Of
left-Overs.

soap bark left over after cleaning
dress goods can be used to advantage
in washing floors. 1t is esp ecially suit
able for nice kitchen floors that do
not need 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 0.
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 or
sink, pour it on young weeds that are
springing up in the garden path. There
is generally quantity of salt often a
pint or more, left in the bottom of the
freezer If there are no weeds to kill
put it on an old plate, and when dry
use it again in freezing cream.
Leftover coffee grounds make a
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
backing. 1t will make the stove shine
Alum and various articles are recon-
mended for this purpose, but leftover
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 can be saved and used il
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
recommends making it into jelly or
blanc mango, after sweetening and
favoring 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 we'll 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, 1t makes a good fer
tilizer and can he used to keep off
bugs.
1t is foolish to indulge in misery
economies if they take up valuable
time or are of no special advantage.
For instance, sensible woman will
not save pea pods for soup, as some
frugal French housewives are said to
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, "Trfles make perfection
and perfection is no trifle," applies to
household management, if it applies to
anything.