South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-11-28
WHEN ECONOMY
IS EXTAAVAGANCE
In. Furnishing of Kitchen, in
Buying Supplies and in Pre-
pairing Food Many House
wives Have False Ideas of
Saving.

In the furnishings OF the kitchen a
woman has the chance to eliminate
many false economies. 1t is a mis-
take to buy cheap saucepans and large
bowls of china of earthenware. for they
are not only heavy and clumsy but are
easily broken. Never buy even at a
low price a single breakable dish for
kitchen use. Use granite for refriger-
ator dishes, the same for mixing bowls
and buy other utensils of aluminium.
copper or iron, according to the size of
Your purse.
An erroneous economy, which is
widely practiced in the family where
gas is used for cooking purposes, is
the purchase Of meat which cooks
quickly 10 save the use OF the fire
For example n steak an inch thick
will brOil in 10 minutes. The steak
however, is the most expensive cut
of the beef pound and a half or
two pounds of round steak, put twice
through the chopper and made into a
roll, Will bake in so minutes. The same
amount If made into a steak will broil
in , minutes. \ good steak costs
about ST. the roll of chopped steak
35 to 40 cents. So to save two cents
worth of gas you have spent about So
cents.
OF course. it is a false economy in
small families 10 make dishes that re-
quire longtime cooking unless these
dishes are made when the fire is used
, for other purposes. For instance, a
loaf OF brown bread at five cents will
answer for n family of four two meals.
| II would take six cents worth of gas
or coal TO make the bread leaving out
the time and material. III is true that
the home made food might taste bet
| ter but where economies must be con-
sidered, the purchase of longtime
foods and those in season is always to
be considered.
The haphazard buying Of supplies
represents a false economy practiced
! in many homes. The economical
housekeeper does not live from hand
TO mouth. running 10 thee stOre at the
| last minute. for q bit OF this or a can
of that But. on the other hand, if
the housewife purchases in quantities
and does not look well to the storage
OF her supplies. the loss will Overhaul
ance any saving intended. 1t is cheaper
in a large family 20 buy apples by the
barrel; but If they are not looked over
almost daily and the specked ones uti-
| lied it is cheaper to buy a peck at a
time.
During the canning season many
housewives are tempted 10 buy fruits
| Just on the verge of decay because
they are cheap. This is a decidedly
| false economy. The waste of such
fruits and the loss in having TO do
them up Immediately far overbalance
the difference in cost OF buying even
less quantity Of good fruit. 1t is not
true economy 10 try To do up all the
fruit needed on one day for OverwOrk
is very apt 70 induce a woman to
throw away the ripper portions that
might be made into marmalade or
fruit butter. In counting up the ma
terials. the value OF those used and
the left-overs thrown away the prob
ability is that more has been paid than
would have been for good fruits at
another time.
In many homes il is the practice TO
try and save the ice in the refrigerator
by wrapping it up in newspapers and