Arizona republican., 1909-08-23
DOMESTIC SCIENCE.


| tematically apportiOn the materials re- quired for each days consumption.
 Otherwise there.are pretty sure to be small extravagances indulged in, seemingly insignificant at the time, but making a big sum total in the course of a year.
 A storeroom should be light and well ventilated. It nfay be large or small as the requirements of the fam fly or available space warrants, but light and air it must have. Food stored in dark, musty place not only becomes tainted in flavor but also un wholesome.
 The Shelving.
 The shelving should begin high enough up from the floor to permit a barrel to stand beneath the bottom shelf and should be ample as to width, that the stores may not be crowded. Cover the shelves with white table oilcloth, tacking it neatly in place. With care, such covering will last in- definitely and it's advantages over pa per are manifold. At least one shelf should be fitted with a hinged screen that opens upward and outward. This arrangement will be found invaluable when it is necessary to protect food from the stray fly, which despite win dow and door screens manages to creep in.
 The Emergency Shelf.
 Another shelf should be set apart as an emergency shelf and kept stocked with such articles as canned soups and meats. boxed cakes and crackers, choice extracts, olives, potted cheese and similar supplies which can be de- pended upon for a hurry-up meal or when an unexpected guest arrives.
 Other Necessities and Conveniences.
 A zinc-topped table filled with draw CTS, is almost a necessity in a store room. 4 pair of housekeepers scales will pay for themselves many times over. A table of weights and meas Ures should be pasted in a conspicuous place so that when giving out sup plies. there need be no loss of time in searching through cook books for such information.
 A memorandum with pencil attached should be kept in one of the table drawefs. In it an accurate account of dAl DuItlldStSs udlC pl DuItlldStS anu cost should be kept. Only those who have adopted this method realize what a money saver it is. A memory jogger book or slate should be at hand to daily note what stores need replenish- ing. To the non-methodical house wife, who buys at hap-haZard, this will seem a useless waste of time. This because she fails to appreciate that housekeeping is a business, and no business succeeds unless put upon d systematic business basis.
 In Caring For Supplies.
 Supplies should never be left in pa per bags. It is neither tidy nor wholesome. Such foods as cereals and dried fruits should be stored in glass jars and as they are apt to become wormy when kept too long. should be purchased in small quantities. Sugar should be stored in wooden boxes or pails and kept closely covered. to pro tect from dust and ants. Tn fact all stores which can not be washed before eating. should he kept under cover.
 In the case of such foods as butter and milk this precaution is of double importance because lnere IS greater danger of food contamination owing to their absorbent properties. Flour is also highly absorbent and should not come in close contact with other foods. When flour is bought by the barrel, elevate the barrel so that there may. be free current of air beneath it. to ward off the danger of the flour on the bottom of the barrel becoming musty.