AS NINETEEN REGARDS ECONOMY. 
A LTHOUGH only nineteen, I know how 
to economize somewhat, and I’ll tell 
you how. I do not spend my time and 
strength going up and down stairs, or to 
the garden or elsewhere half a dozen times 
for things which, with a little forethought, 
can be brought in two or three trips. If I 
go down cellar for apples for sauce or pies, 
I get the vegetables for dinner, thus saving 
time and steps, and “ time is money.” I 
sweep the living-rooms every day, the cham¬ 
bers generally once a week. A dust cloth 
is kept in a handy place both up stairs and 
down. Receptacles for soiled clothes should 
be in all bed rooms and one behind the pan¬ 
try door in which to put soiled napkins, 
dish wipers, etc., is a great convenience. If 
you often have company to tea it is a good 
plan to have one or more kinds of cake in 
reserve for such occasions; thiscau be baked 
on days when you are not rushed with other 
work, and kept in a cool place : cake keeps 
nicely in our cellar with a pan turned over 
it. If you make layer cake, the filling may 
be made fresh the day it is to be used. We 
make sugar cookies which every one likes 
and they will keep good ever so long. 
A practical painter told us that the best 
way to wash paint or graining is to add 
about three spoonfuls of milk to a basin of 
warm soft water; it leaves paint clean and 
the varnish as bright as when new. I tried 
a few drops of coal oil in tepid soft water 
for washing windows, and was very well 
pleased with the result. If you use common 
red brick for scouring, just add a little soda 
and see how much easier it is to keep the 
knives and forks bright. To take bruises 
out of furniture, first wet them thor¬ 
oughly with tepid water, then lay five or 
six thicknesses of moist brown paper over 
them; to this apply a warm—not hot—flat¬ 
iron till all the moisture is evaporated and 
repeat till the sunken places have risen to 
the surface. 
We make it a point not to throw away 
anything that can be used: all the pieces of 
bread and cake are made into puddings, 
corned beef into hash, etc. 
In wearing apparel I have to be very 
economical. On an average I have one 
good dress, two pairs of shoes and one hat 
each year. My hats have to last two 
seasons, but as I can trim them over if 
they need it, I do not mind wearing them 
thus. In order to keep “ in style,” I make 
and remake my dresses, which is a great 
saving. When making a new dress it is 
my aim not to cut up the cloth more than 
is absolutely necessary; this makes it 
easier to make it over in good shape. I 
have just made over a dark blue dress in 
which there were some faded places. I wet 
a piece of the goods in some darker blue 
ink and rubbed all the lighter places, 
which made them like the rest. I save all 
my dress and hat trimmings for future 
use, trying always to select at first colors 
that will not fade. I consider it more eco¬ 
nomical to get one good article than three 
or four cheap things. I have found that 
brown kid gloves do not wear as well as 
those of other colors; they are more apt to 
tear or crack. For a good “all-around” 
glove, tan color or black is preferable; 
for summer wear I get silk gloves, and 
after the fingers have become worn, I cut 
them down Into mitts. 
Just a word about shoes; never get a 
shoe that is too short; better get one that 
is too narrow if it is long enough; and 
never wear your shoes with buttons off or 
unbuttoned; it spoils the shape and looks 
sloyenly. Use as little blacking as possi¬ 
ble because it injures the leather. 
Connecticut. JULIA. 
will make a child as nice a cap as can be 
bought for $1.25. The ribbon and niching 
will cost only a trifle. 
Home-made socks can be bought here for 
50 cents, factory socks for 30 cents. A home 
made pair will wear two years with some 
mending and the third year can be footed, 
while a factory pair will wear on our men 
only three months and they cannot be 
footed. Which is the cheaper ? 
While visiting a friend, having nothing 
else to do, I observed how many unneces¬ 
sary steps she took in doing her housework. 
Going upstairs to sweep, for instance, she 
forgot her sweeping-cap and made an extra 
trip down the steep stairs after it. 
This winter I made such a pretty book¬ 
case out of a dry goods box, that I must 
tell The Rural readers about it. 
It Is three feet four inches high and four 
feet wide, and midway is a shelf. A casing 
four inches deep was placed around the bot¬ 
tom; a piece of moulding covered the 
edges. Inside and out it was stained with 
black walnut stain, which was made by 
adding one tablespoonful of raw umber to 
one pint of thin glue water. This stain, in¬ 
stead of being put on smoothly, was gently 
spattered on with a sponge, and the clouded 
effect produced is very pretty. The outside 
was varnished. This was given to a brother 
for a birthday present and is just large 
enough to hold his books. 
What a wasteful scene it is in a poor 
man’s smokehouse — that pile of dried 
up ham bones 1 The meat is cut off from 
ours, and the bone cooked the first thing ; 
and how we do enjoy our boiled dinner ! 
We always see to it that our hams are 
smoked when just salt enough, for there is 
nothing so disagreeable as to eat either 
meat or butter which is too salt. We use 
only one-quarter ounce of salt to the pound 
of butter. farmer’s girl 
NEW KODAKS 
waiting for daylight, as some people do, is 
nearly as bad as lying in bed until sun-up. 
In our family, and I presume it is the 
same in all families where The Rural 
goes, the clothes cost more in money than 
anything else. 
Last week I made a little brother, aged 
five, a pretty suit, the like of which could 
not be bought in any clothing store for less 
than $5. An older brother had bought the 
suit, a fine navy blue wool, and had worn 
it until it had become too shabby, then an¬ 
other brother wore it about the farm, and 
at last I washed and turned it and made 
the suit. To begin with, the only whole 
part about the coat was the back, a space 
between the collar and the pockets of the 
front, and the upper parts of the sleeves. 
The trousers had no back part and the bot¬ 
tom was a fringe of worn-out cloth. Many 
a housewife after looking over it, would 
have pronounced it fit only for carpet rags; 
and it would have made a lovely stripe, 
but a carpet with many such stripes would 
be pretty costly ; for a stripe made out of 
such cloth would represent $5, or the price 
of a boy’s suit. Many a piece of goods that 
goes into the average carpet is too good for 
that purpose. Our rule is: that which 
will make nothing else may go into the 
carpet rags. We spend no time in making 
striped carpets; all our small, new and old 
pieces are put into a hit-and-miss carpet. 
It is prettier, and more economical than 
the striped. A chain of either one solid 
color or of striped will give it a handsome 
appearance. A rag carpet for a large room 
costs us $5, and when made of natural 
colors, looks well as long as it lasts. 
Quite an item is saved by making those 
little skull caps for the boys and buying 
eider down or plush and making Puritan 
caps for the girls ; half a yard of 80 cent 
plush or half a yard of 50 cent eider down 
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