The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-06-12
inexpensive HOuskeeing For
Those Who Enter WedlOck
Lesson in How to Buy Groceries and Meats for Family
of Two and How to Furnish Small Home.

last three days. It can be served hot
the first day, cold the second and made
over the third time into curry or
some other preferred dish. Save the
gravy from the first day for this make
over.
A porterhouse steak is expensive. l
know, but if you can get the first cut
where sthere is little or no thin end,
it makes a delicious dish for two per-
sons. OF course, I do not recommend
roasts and porterhouse steaks as
steady diet. but there is no reason to
exclude them entirely. A shoulder of
lamb with the bone removed and then
stuffed makes a nice roast and is not
too large. If you market freesh. small
scraps can be picked out and bought
cheap to make into stew.
Calves liver at % cents a pound
sounds expensive, yet 10 cents worth
with a slice or two of bacon lastly
cooked will be ample for a breakfast
for two persons and will taste mucn
better than the tougher bullock's liver.
Lambs kidneys and bacon make an
kidney cut and stewed with seasoning
and served on toast will more than
make a dinner for two, the cost being
about Is cents.
Chickens for fricasee may be consld'
cred an economical investment as ev-
cry scrap may be utilized.
In furnishing your home | should
advise getting few good articles rath'
err than many in a cheaper grade. In
deed, persons of refinement do not
crowd rooms nowadays; it is consider
ed in much better taste to buy only
what is needed. These pieces may be
as handsome as one pleases. but FUR
niture is not bought nowadays sim
ply to be looked at.
The craftsman furniture mot the
mission) is appropriate for small
homes, in DINING and living rooms es,
pecially.
In the latter should lay a good rug
add a couple of comfortable, roomy
chairs, a neat but substantial table not
too small for service: a bookcase and
if YOU can AFFORD it and have room
for it, lounge. Later you may aoo
an extra couple of small chairs and
stand for fern.
Pretty cross stripe curtains are Ell
fective for living rooms. with linen
sash curtains of scrim and lace.
In the dining room there could be
sash curtains of any pretty, lnexpens'
i've stuff that comes by the yard, toppec
nv a gathered or pleated valance.
The floor should be covered with
crex rug and the furniture plain but
on smart lines Nice dining room fur
niture is not cheap, but you might gel
table and chairs and yait for the SIDE
| board if you feeel~ you have spen'
enough on this room.
The bedroom floor could be covered
with a colonial rug The bed may be o.
of brass and enamel and the furnish
ings in any kind of wood you prefer
White enamel is little trouble to keel
clean and wears for years.
A bureau. a chiffonier and couple O
chairs are all that is really necessary
A small table may be added.
The kitchen may be furnished Will
linoleum on the floor thought II o
hard finish no covering is necessary.
There must be kitchen table u
cost about $3.50. Pots and pans AM
dishes may cost little or much ou
what | do advise strongly is to get al
cooking utensils Of thoroughly goo'
quality.
think you may spend $500 in fur
nishing. which sum with all the llttl'
dainty pieces of needlework your brid
will bring, should make your hom'
pretty.