The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-12-26

Northwestern railway system said to
his auditor one day:
You have a young man named
Cunningham in your division, have
you pot?"
Yes sir"
well keep your eye one him."
why, he is one of my best men,"
Well he ought to be; | saw him
depositing money in a savings bank
the day before Christmas"
The Christmas season ought to be
a time of universal happiness. 1t
cannot be all over the world this
year. but here in peaceful America
it is safe to say that the great ma
jority of thrifty homes are happy
hes this Christmas.
If you are thinking of making
1915 a year of thrift consider these
five suggestions:
1. Pay cash. AS a general rule
you can get better prices by buy
ing for cash because you are not
paying for the bad debts of those
who buy on credit and fail to pay
their bills. Unrestricted credit al
ways leads to extravaganza. A cred
it account is not to be encouraged
in any family where any member is
unable to resist the temptation to
buy anything that captures his fan
cy.
2. Buy in quantities. The plan of
making ones cellar a storage plant
doesn't apply to vegetables alone.
April eggs can be laid down" by
methods well understood by good
housekeepers. So can June butter.
AS for apples, there should be a
barrel of sound ones in every home
this winter as they are cheaper than
usual.
A B~ellfOntaine, o., man who has
been in the grocery business for a
long time, attributes the present
high cost of living almost wholly to
the hand to mouth manner in which
people do their buying nowadays,
and the rage for purchasing every
thing in packages instead Of in bulk.
Undoubtedly there is considerable
truth in this contention.
,. Economy in Food. DR.. William
Brady says that the cheapest foods
are generally the most nutritious
and digestible. The waste of food
in the average American home is
APPALLING. We s%quander money on
fancy articles of low nutritive val
lie and we use little or no Judgment
in preparing what we "a with a
view to obtaining all the energy
there is in lit.
Meat is the costliest staple article
of food and most people eat too
much of it. Fish is cheaper and
just as nOurishing and digestible.
Other comparatively cheap and good
articles of food neglected in some
quarters include cheese, oleomargar-
inc, beans. rice, oatmeal, macarOni,
bananas, peanuts, peas, brown sugar.
corn meal, cabbage, onions and pota-
toes. If you are interested in foOd
values write to the United States de-
partment of agriculture at Washing
ton, ID. c., for farmers bulletin Nos.
SO. 121, 142 ana 1872.
4. System. A h~ousekeeper says:
Il have found it wise to plan my
meals for a eek ahead, planning
each meal with reference to the 9TH
ers. | always do this planning be-
fore Friday or Saturday marketing,
so that any staple | need may be
bought at that time. By this ar
rangement l can use left overs much
better and have a much more salts
factory table. I have found since |
began planning my meals for a week
at a time there has been a noticeable
change for the better in my bills"
5. Buying Direct. With a view to
facilitating the early introduction of
his farm to table plan of reducing
the cost of living by making use of
the parcel post to bring farmer and
city consumer closer together Post
master General Burleson has issued
a statement setting forth the reults
of experiments in ten cities special
ly designated last March for trial
of the direct exchange between the
farm producers and city
The report says that results show
that the new service is welcomed by
the public and that it has come to
stay. improvements being made and
numerous inventions of new contain
ers being put upon the market guar
antee rapid growth of the PLAN