The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-04-09

few periods when the general
practice of thrift by the Ameri-
can people would result in so
much benefit to the country as
at the present time. The condi-
tons brought about by the war
in Europe ought to awaken the
public to the importance of thrift
and the cost of extravaganza -
Governor Strong of Alaska.
The steps taken by the warning ma
tions of Europe to preserve the food
supply for their people is a big OBJ
iect lesson in the possibilities of
more thrifty living in this respect,
even in lands that are at peace.
1t is said that the kaiser and kais-
erin are cutting down the expenses
of the imperial household and teach
ing the German people a lesson in
frugality. The standard of meals at
court appears to be no higher than
that of many private families in Ber-
lin. Both at the front and in the
palace in Berlin the kaiser lives with
Spartan simplicity. A favorite dish
is thick soup, containing chopped
meat. The kaisern visits the kitchen
every day, giving orders and superin-
tending the cooking. "One cannot
live sumptuously while our brave
soldiers are making the greatest sac
rifices," she is reported to have said
While across the water many men,
women and children are on the verge
of starvation, and in our own coun-
try there are many needy ones, the
statement is made that the average
American family wastes enough food
in one week to keep a Belgian or a
Pole alive and in health for two weeks.
What will open the eyes of many
of our housekeepers to their extrava-
gance? Shall this lesson of the
great war go unlearned? Do not
these housekeepers know that waste
is their badge of incompetency? The
really scientific cook wastes nothing.
Stale bread, cake, left-overs of meats.
potatoes and other vegetables. cold
cereals, macaroni, etc, can all be
made to reappear in forms quite as
appetiZing as their original ones. SO
say successful honsekeepers, at any
rate. Husbands have not been heard
from on this point
''ln the interests of good taste.
household economy, scholarship and
social relations" says the Spokane
Spokesman Review, Mothers will do
well to push for a reform in the
extravaganza in school girls dresses"
What became of that movement to
help the south by wearing more cot
ton dresses?
Banks often Ike some of their own
medicine and try to save money. A
country bank about year ago in
stalled and waste-paper baling ma
chine, having found that baled paper
commanded a much better price than
loose paper. Now over half the jan
itor's wages comes from this source.
The Scientific American SAYS:
The fact that the loss from
leaking water faucet is small should
not lead us to neglect small leaks,
because by disregarding them we
tend to become slovenly in all things
Furthermore, small leaks do not re-
main small The constant leakage
of faucets wears small passages
through the seats and makes tight
ness impossible. The next thing.
then, is a new faucet with the ac.
companying plumbers bill, which is
VIGOROUSLY not small"
According to the United States de-
partment of agriculture, the waste
produced in the process of canning
salmon is estimated to be from % |
to 90 per cent of the original weight
OF the fish and over $4,000. 900 is the |
value of this waste annually on the
Pacific coast. The department sug-
gests that canneries might advantag-
eously dispose of their waste by
manufacturing it into fertilizer or
fish meal for poultry or cattle feeding.
A report comes from Puget Sound
that some of the big canneries are
investigating the proposition, and one
Or two of them have already signi-
fed their intention of erecting plants
to overcome this waste and add to
their profits.
The more of this kind of waste
we practise in the United
States from now on, the better it