The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-06

or much butter. Two dozen eggs
were all We consumed between De-
cember and March 1. We stop
ped eating buckwheat cakes be-
cause we were using too much
strip and butter, and believe our
health has been the better for 1t.
Only once this winter did we buy
fine cut of beefsteak, and that
was for an emergency. We never
buy fine roasts or any expensive
cuts of meat. Flank steak, boiling
pieces and pot roasts are our usual
selections. We only buy meat once
a week, though this amount gives
us two or three meals. With care,
cheap cuts can be made as tooth
some as the expensive ones.
Two kitchen tools have proven
OF greatest economy-the food
chopper and the fireless cooker.
We can buy the very cheapest
round and flank steak and with our
food chopper fix it for loaves and
other viands fit for any table. The
cooker bakes beans cheaply and
anything that must be stewed or
baked, for it keeps the gas bill low.
Constance herself bakes pie and
the less rich pastries. Because
of our slight consumption of 1t, we
found it no economy to bake bread.
We have kept our health good by
eating salads in moderate quanti-
ties.
Our gas bill hasn't ben over rs
cents any month this winter with
gas at $1.75 per 1000, yet every cold
night We have had an open fire in
our living room. Early In the win
ter l bought one of those new big
incandescent electric lamps for 80
cents and installed it in our living
room. 1t has given us a beautiful
light and is apparently in as good
condition today as when l bought
it. Yet our electricity bill hasn't
been over $1.15 any month this win
ter.
Constance has taught me to wear
things that have been fixed over.
So now l cheerfully get my hats
cleaned and reblocked, my shoes
half soled, my clothing repaired.
Before l was married I had false
sense of shame to do such things.
But when the girl a fellow has
courted tells him he looks just as
well in repaired clothing as in
new, he is apt to believe it,
AS for Constance's clothing-I
don't know how she does it, but
she buys less than l do, but al
ways has more and better-loOking
clothes than l have.
She has taught herself to be an
expert needlewoman. Each spring
and fall she patronizes a Sewing
school," paying S. for 10 all-day
lessons" The school" simply
amounts to this: The pupils"
make their own clothes, under the
critical direction of expert dress
makers the teachers This
spring Constance is adjusting to
the present styles two old suits of
hers, buying, perhaps. S. worth of
suits, $40 She expects to take
second term of lessons" and make
herself number of summer
froCks.
Neckties are an expense to any
young fellow who must appear mod
erately we'll dressed on his job.
Ties are costly. and they soon grow
dirty. But mine do longer service
than most. For Constance rips
them up, washes them, turns them
inside out, stitches them up again,
and their second life is usually
longer than their first
But our experiences are just IL
Illustrations of how We follow the
two rules of low rent and not vast
ing. Every one must work out
their own experiments. But If all
kept these rules high prices and
high rents would tumble.
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