The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-02-05
TALKS ON THRIFTA
No. 5l.-Thrift Makes Happy Homes.

No. 5l.-Thrift Makes Happy Homes.
Chairman Marvin Hughitt, of the
Northwestern Railway system,
said to his auditor one day:
You have a young man named
Cunningham in your division, have
you not?"
Yes, sir"
Well, keep your eye on him..
Why? He's one of my best
men"
We'll, he ought to be; I saw
him depositing money in savings
bank the day before Christmas
The Christmas season ought to be a
time of universal happiness. 1t can
not be all over the world this year,
but here in peaceful America, it is safe
to say that the great majority of thrift
ty homes are happy ones this Christ
mas.
If you are thinking of making 1915
suggestions:
i. Pay cash. AS a general rule.
you can get better prices by buying
for cash because you are not paying
for bad debts of those who buy on
credit always leads to extravaganza. A
credit account is not to be encouraged
in any family, where any member is
unable to resist the temptation to buy
anything that captures his fancy.
?. Buy in quantities. The plan of
making ones cellar 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 barrel of sound ones
in every house this winter, as they are
cheaper than usual.
A Bellefontaine, 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 everything in
packages instead of in bulk. Undoubt-
eddy there is considerable truth in this
contention.
3. Economy in food. DR.. William
Brady says that the cheapest foods are
generally the most nutritious and di-
gestible. The waste of food in the
average American home is appalling
We squander money on fancy articles
of low nutritive value, and we use little
or no judgment in preparing what we
eat with a view to obtaining all the
energy there is in it.
Meat is the costliest staple article of
food and most people eat too much of
it. Fish is cheaper and just as nour-
ishing and digestible Other compare
lively cheap and good articles of food,
neglected in some quarters, include
cheese, oleomargarine, beans, rice. oat-
meal, macaroni, bananas, peanuts,
peas, brown sugar, corn meal, cab
bage, onions and potatoes If you
are interested in food values, write to
the u S. Department of Agriculture,
at Washington, D. c., for Farmers
Bulletin Nos. 80, 121, 142 and 1872
A. System. A housekeener says: 81
have found it wise to plan my meals
for a week ahead, planning each meal
with reference to the others. I always |
do this planning before Friday or Sat
urday marketing, so that any staple |
/ need may be bought at that time BY |
this arrangement | can use left-overs, |
much better, and have much more |
satisfactory table. | have found since |
| began planning my meals for a week |
at a time there has been noticeable |
change for the better in my bills"
5. Buying direct. With 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 together, Postmaster-Gen
al Burleson has issued statement |
setting forth the results of experiments
in ten cities specially designated last
March for trial of the direct exchange
between farm products and city consul
mers. The report says that results
show that the new service is welcomed |
by the public and that it has come 70
stay. Improvements being made and
inventions of new contain
ers being put upon the market guar
antee rapid growth of the plan.