The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1907-02-01
POINTS OUT WASTE
EXPERT SEES FAULTS IN MOD
ERIN HOUSEKEEPING.
Women Of Chicago are Said to Spend
an Enormous Amount NeedIessiy
-OId-Fashioned Methods Got
the Best Results.

Chicago housekeepers waste nearly
5000, 100000 every year. The exact
figures, taken from commercial reports
and the percentages of waste calcu-
lated by domestic science experts,
show that $193, 100000 is lost annually
by careless buying, unscientific cook
ing and other domestic extravagances-
The School of Domestic Science
sums up the causes under several
heads. Among these the half-dozen
following are selected by the Chicago
Tribune as the most prominent:
1. Buying provisions by order and
telephone instead of seeing them.
2. Buying prepared foods.
3. Buying fruits and vegetables out
of season.
4. Taking goods as offered by deal
ers instead of insisting on quantities,
brands and cuts wanted.
5. Loss on delight, wrappings and
attractive glasses, cans, ETC., in which
food is put up.
cuts of meat and how to cook least ex-
pensive things to bring out food values
and good taste.
''The thing which the average house
keeper figures upon as most import
ant now is her time," said Miss Ly-
ford of the School of Domestic Science
when she buys SO as to save this
she has to figure against 1t not only
loss of money, but loss of nourish-
| ment. Again, you have to figure If it
isn't better to spend more money to
get more nourishment
OF the gain in the old-fashioned
plan of going to market instead of Or
dering by telephone or by the order
speak too strongly. Said Mrs. Wag-
ley, the secretary:
ct is matter of fact that your
roast will cost more If you order it
than it does if you see it weighed.
Your butcher may prove perfectly hon.
| est and you may have him for years
and years and not find a fault il you
go get your things yourself. The min
ute you begin to order, however, the
| total of your weeks bill will be higher.
Another advantage of going is that
your butcher does not happen to have
the cut you want, you simply and
| out any talk or argument about it.
Many housekeepers do not do this.
| but it is the most logical thing in the
| world to do. You ask for certain
| thing, he says he hasn't it., You say
nothing, but go to another place to
get what you have decided upen."
One of the things which Mrs. Wag'
| ley considers is absolutely indispen
sable to see cut is hamburger steak,
which she says should be cut off as
| wanted and put through the grinder.
| The kind that is ready prepared in
variably will have scraps and trim
mings put in it.
One reason for the common habit
| of ordering is given by a housekeeper
in the fact that in the majority of mar
| kets the fresh goods are not brought
| out until nearly noon, and this leaves
| the housekeeper no time to market
| but in the middle of her day. To this
| is attributed the crowding of markets
| just before dinner, when it takes an
almost impossible tome to get waited
| on.
It is on the buying of ready-made
foods that the greatest loss is believed
| to be found, both in money and nutri-
| ton Says Mrs. Smith:
"Ready-made cakes, pies and almost
! all ready-made foods are only an imi
tation. They look beautiful and appe-
tizing on the outside, but did you ever
| eat anything in your life bought in
| this way that was not disappoint-
ment? In too many cases they are
| made of materials that we would not
employ in our homes.