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meringue, and spread on top; now the
yoIk of the second egg is beaten with
a little milk or cream and sugar and
spice, into q sauce, or instead Of the
cream the juice left from some can
ned fruit is used; and here is a sauce
for the dessert. We eat it. Delicious!
What dainty eXtrayagant things these
foreign people use. Instead, we
Americans would have thrown away
the CHIEF part Of this dish, and would
have provided for dessert a huge pie,
more costly, and not half as whole
some.
The foreign economist has nearly
all her vegetables scraped and not
peeled. The parings take away a
fourth Of the food.
Often also vegetables are cooked in
their skins. This saves the waste Of
the phosphdtcs and starch in the boil
ing water.
She remembers perhaps the most
rourisling and richest part of the
food lies close to the skin or She Was
simply taught she cannot afford to
pare it. The careful housewives eyes
are all owe her household; waste can
not go on undiscovered. In foreign
countries the shops expect to sell in
Titles; exactly what is needed for use
is bought.
How have these foreigners learned
50 much better economy than we?
Trouble and sorrow bring always,
in n way or another, their compen-
s%ations.
They have been scourged by famine,
by plaques, by ravaging armies, by
shameless taXations, and they have
been forced since their earliest times
to save every particle that could be
turned to any use.
America must learn this lesson of
economy, for the noblest land cannot
endure the drain of waste. If people
could only be taught that economy is
Titles and of individuals, and of every
day and not a thing of masses and of
s%pasmOdic efforts, then a true idea
would begin to tell upon the Habits
of our domestic life. It's effects would
be seen in general and national pros
perity; for the thrift and thriving of
the individual is the thrift and thriv-
ing Of the nation.
Our foreign household economist
knows the value of three things
charcoal, evaporation and piece of
muslin. A bit of muslin tied over
pots and jars will keep out flies and
dust and will admit air to aid in pre-
serving things. Charcoal kept near
meats or other food absorbs in itself
the germs of decay, and aids in pre-
serving what is placed upon or beside
it. Evaporation aids like ice in lower
ing the temperature. The American
thinks this is all nice to know, but to
put it into practice seems penurious
a saving rather beneath people. That
is because we do not look at it in the
right light.
Christ the Lord of all, who could
command food for thousands at a
word, did not think it beneath Him to
set his apostles to gathering up
scraps Of fish and bread, which he had
produced at so little effort and cost.
He showed his power in providing his
liberality in bestoWing his carefulness
in saving. Did he not do this alto
gether for u sakes? To give US a
lesson of, that economy, without
WAlcn JLH human race CdiioC De
maintained?
All that is-The bread on your
table, the meat, the egg, whatever
We use is the ultimate product of
Christ's creating skill, and the result
to us of his knowledge. What divine
Chemistry in fruit matured for our
tables, Economy is a high Christian
duty, that nothing be lost.