Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-02-12
SAVING THAT COUNTS
SMALL ECONOMIES CUT DOWN
HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES.
Housewives Part Is to Make Small In
come co as Far as Possible, and
Thought In That Direction
Is Well Expended.

It is the small economics that make
big savings possible, and the house
wife who scorns the pennies will never
possess many dollars. Nowadays big
salaries are not so common as we
should like to have them. and the aver
age man must struggle along as best
he can on Just a living wage. In these
hard times il is the wife5 part to
make the small income so Just as far
as she can, and only by strict atten-
tion to the TRIES as well as to big
expenses. can she put by any money
at all
The man whose vic has been
brought up on the old adage. Look to
the pennies and the dollars will take
care OF themselves" nay well thank
his luclsy stcrs that he captured such
2 prize, for such women are rare, in
deed. in these days OF thrietless, care.
less housewives. Such q woman. who
lives up to her belief that "a penny
1~ed is a renny earned" is indeed
teo better half Of any man
After all. the poor husband can only
-iag in the family earnings He cam
-3, make them stretch over all the
aonsa hO.d expenses VITA a little to
ere 10 bank foF rainy days. That
mo wi.es share .n Che partnership
.-- often it is The hardest
housewives. vou.s IS the mart 20
arve here and Di-ch there, that the
weekly stipend nav be enough to pro
vide for your needs II your husbands
salary seems all too little. look about
you to see where you can lower ex-
3enses. Since the salary cannot be
enlarged, the household expenditure
must be minimized.
. Waste not, want not is another
a-0verb which might well be adopted
IS q motto by the American housewife,
or it is well known that in no other
country in the world is there so much
waste in the household as in America
Even our thrirtiest housewife, one
no would be considered a model as
:ompared with others, would be
unazed could she be transported into
lie kitchen of French woman. For it
s IN the Kitchen where the greatest
taste goes On, ana It is. there where
5e French housewife displays the
81 st thrift
Our model houseleeper would be
Considered extravagant by the average
'aasant woman OF France or Germany.
Il these countries the women utilize
,"ery bit of food that comes into the
ouse. In the poorest homes as well
$ in the homes of those who have
jnfortable means. there is always to
e found huge pot on the back of the
tOve, or in the peasants kitchen hang
: on a hook in the fireplace. This
the potage pot. or soup pot and
..to it go all the scraps which are
LEFT over-meat, vegetables, bones,
everything
Another pot, kept near at hand, is
for fats. When the soup is skinned,
the fat IS thrown into the other pot.
Bits of tat from meat, drippings, the
fat left IN roasting pans. all fat lex
cept mutton or lamb tallow), is thrown
into the fat pot, where it is melted
down, made into clarified fat, and used
in place of lard. No French woman
would think of buying lard, in fact, she
would be rather Mortified at the idea,
for the homemade, clarified fat is con,
sidered, and is far superior to the lard
sold in the shops.
The casserole dish, too, comes from
this land of provident housewives.
When there is the will to save, the
way usually is found, and the casserole
is one of the results. We American
women should take a leaf from the
note books of our French cousins and