Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-01
JOUR- HOUSEHOLD
CONDUCTED By LIZZIE OTHOMAS

This week has been a strenuous
one on this place. There has been
a demand for cedar posts, and the
storm laid low many beautiful &C.
dar on this place, and the folks who
cut cedar must have their full
share Of nourishing food. Then the
man with the gasoline engine came
to saw the big trees into blocks to
be split for the stove and for win
ter fires. It would take a truly lazy
man to work around a gasoline saw
and not hurry. Somehow that little
popping noise keeps people moving.
The usual routine must be changed
when this sort Of work is before
one. This farmer brought in green
corn. We had Irish potatoes and
onions in the cellar, meat and lard
in the smokehouse, butter and eggs
to be gathered daily, nice meal made
from corn The Farmer selected for
the purpose.
The garden has not been much
this year. None in this county has
been a success, but we can get toma-
toes and beans. That sort Of bill Of
fare, calls for nothing to be bought
except coffee, flour and sugar, and
of course, seasoning. It takes hard
work, constant attention and ever
lasting looking after details, but it's
worth lot to be able to go to sleep
and rise in the morning knowing that
the merchant does not own mort
company does not mean borrowing
nor going in debt.
A woman to whom I was talking
said, TITS very we'll for you to talk.
suppose you had only half as much
meat as your family needed and that
corn was sure to give out, what
would you do?"
1 told her that would do as I've
always done. would use it as
economically as possible and would
try to make it last q month longer
than the estimated time by using
the least desirable pieces first. Those
who really tried to conserve the food
supply during the war learned that
two or three kinds Of meat at one
meal is seldom necessary. And it is
well to sometimes compare prices.
For instance, the family is fond of
salmon, and it has been high, but
and half as many eggs scrambled in
1t? That makes a nourishing meal,
Is a change-we need changes-such
change is healthy and makes that
short supply of meat last at least
as many meals longer, If you keep 1t
3 th IS 1 5see whea sas Sesf
my husband would send somebody
to the stove to cook that meat, no
matter what was on the table"
could say nothing to her, but I tell
you that right then I learned why
that family has such a struggle all
the time.
Sometimes we must buy things
even at what we know are exorbitant
prices, because there are other things
depending on that one. I had to
pay 1925 for small barrel of lime
It was an extravagant purchase, OF
SO thought some, but hogs and poul-
try must have it. Health demands
sanitary surroundings, and a barrel
Of lime, even at that price beats
sick hogs and poultry, to say moth
ing of the health of a home. 1t is
not what we want, but what we
need that is to be called necessity
Learn the difference and let this fact
sink into your inner consciousness
You are not fooling single person
when you put on style and talk big
while owing the grocer or having to
borrow when unexpected company
comes. A husband and wife should
be partners in saving as well as
spending. It is not just to either fo'
one to be extravagant and keep the
other forever under a burden. It's
hard for a mother to see her chill
dren dressed in last years clothes
when their playmates are all be-
frilled and in the height of style
But teach them that honor comes
first, and 1t is not honest to make
debts with no prospect for payment