Arizona republican., 1917-02-04

Fireless cookers and steam cookers
are great fuel savers. When cooking
with wood range there is no end
to the fuel economies. When cook
ing in cold weather save fuel oN cook.
ing in large quantities.
In ArizoIGy summers never cool;
more than YOU expect to eat at one
meal.
Arizona tempers the wind to the
shorn Lanh or just the opposite. by
giving us an abundance of fresh fruits
and vegetables just when their cool
ing effects on the systems, the house
and the cook are most needed.
Make your meals of salad, fruit,
lemonade, bread and butter
Bake your own bread. except in
summer.
save all rice water and water from
peeled potatoes. This. if poured off
INTO stone or earthen vessel viii
Keep Tor several DAYS and will be OF,
hand for emergencies. bread making,
soups GRAVES, etc.
Save every scrap of grease. The
surplus grease from fowls is fine for
all sorts OF kitchen uses Gravey and
bacon fat saves much butter
If we Dear in mind that we should
eat to live rather than live to eat,
our pocketbooks would be fatter and
our hospitals leaner.
Don't use eggs when they are 60
cents dozen. Do without.
Use sal soda instead of expensive
cartoons OF preparations to break
Phoenix water.
Nanish me soles of the children's
shoes with leather varnish once a
week and they will double their wear.
lsc the unWCrn portion OF YOU
htt hon nd Ia frstc
and .hildren's rompcrs.
Buy best material good patterns
and make your own clothes
Refrain from buying things you can
do without and thus increase your
bank account
Thrift in time. good tools: in the
kitchen and ABOUT the house; change
OF occupation Tor rest,
In addition TO these suggestions.
Mrs. Biz dford read a paper on Thrift
in the Kitchen" which will be of
more than ordinary interest TO the
hOCsekeeper treated as it has been by
The clever league member:
Thrift as opposed 10 liberality III
spending is good thing for the
individual or single family but as
society Is II present organized, it is
certainly bad for society at large. as
it cuts down the volume of business,
throws workers out OF employment,
and sublracts from the general pros
pcrity.' said Mrs. Bradford.
If practicd suddenly by any large
group OF people it may even produce
Il panic
Moreover. IS wages tend 10 the
level of the cost of maintaining ana
.4lSine a family the more thrift that
people practice. the smaller viii be
their income. This is 4 fact well
recognized by the labor unions OF all
countries. who bitterly resent the en-
trance OF workers whose standard OF
living is low. IS these OF a low stan
dard drag down the wages Of the bet
teg living natives to their own level.
Thrift is decidedly not sociai
virtue at present. Further more, when
the necessities OF life are in the hands
OF trusts, as soon rs n people have
adopted one economy. the price OF the
newly -accepted commodity tends to
1ec0me as high as the former luxury
which is superseded. Witness the
story Of round steak. This was for
-.ioily vals cneap and rejected by all
but the poorest families. Uncle Sam.
out Of the kindness Of his heart
nired experts to tell the American
people by bulletin Just how to serve
round steak SO that it would be
tender and palatable. AS soon as the
lesson Vas well learned the people
demanded much round steak, and the
benevolent meat trusts raised it to the
price Of other good steak. However,
when all is said and done, there come
times when tle American housewife
finds herself confronted by condition
and not 4 theory. The money Is not
there. or IS there only in a limited
qCantlty mouths must De Ied' the
taiAily maintained IN state OF healtn-
W nat can she 10
Regardless OF the needs OF society
as Whole' she mas 70 ADOPT e3oho
MES. for hei more fortunate nelgh-
3ors TO practice thri1t IS to rob them
selves OF lie unless indeed, they are
thrifty IN some one department in
order TO Apply the saving to other
forms of enriching life
When one starts to practice thrift
IN the Kitchen, two prehminarles must
oe attended, to-the housewife must
give fuff reign TO ner scotch Soul r
not to De ashamed nor apologetie,
also she must secure the cooperation
pf her family They must talk Over
prices and substitutes, and al be
shown the advantages OF the proposed
changes All must enter enthusiastic
ally icto the game.
"One Of my favOrite economies
have been unable To use to any eX-
tent in my family. because some OF
them refuse to substitute rice for
potatoes, when the latter are unrea-
sonably high.
However the elimination of waste
is scientific and the most far reach
ing of our economies. If certain
dishes do not lend themselves readily
to warming or to combinations, be
careful not TO cook too much There
is no reason for the housewife to b.