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Household Management 
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Economy. 
T HERE are three meanings commonly 
applied to the word economy. First, 
going without; second, using sparingly; 
and third, using to the best advantage. 
Transpose the letters of this word into 
two groups and you have co-( with) and 
money! Plainly economy means—with 
money ! Remember there can be no econ¬ 
omy where there is nothing to economize. 
Living from hand to mouth may, in some 
cases be a necessity, but it is never econ¬ 
omy. Many believe that in order to be 
economical they must be stingy, buying 
and using only the smallest possible part 
of the things that would make their lives 
happier and more complete. There are 
those who have an abundance of means 
by which they might enrich their lives 
and the lives of their family, but through 
false ideas of economy they save here, 
there and everywhere, stinting themselves 
on everything, narrowing their hearts and 
lives and losing the joy and contentment 
which might be theirs. A shining con¬ 
trast to these are the persons who having 
a limited income lay aside a small 
portion for the rainy day and use the 
larger portion for the brightening and 
ennobling of their own lives, and the lives 
of others. These are the truly economical 
people and the truly happy ones. 
New York. ethel d. mc nickle. 
The Housekeeper's Creed. 
WILL conserve my own resources of 
energy and time by having dry mop. 
duster, brush and dustpan on each floor: 
having matches and receptacles for burnt 
ones in each room ; having no dirt gath¬ 
erers under a mistaken ideal of decora¬ 
tion ; .having pencil and paper in each 
living room, to save a fleeting thought; 
having list in kitchen on which to jot 
articles to be bought, things to be at¬ 
tended to later, et cetera; having plenty 
of soft paper at hand in kitchen for wip¬ 
ing out greasy dishes, for lamps, and so 
on. The paper will do for lighting fires 
too. 
Putting my dishes away so that in 
order to get one I do not have to lift 
or move two or three. 
I will hang clothes on line to dry 
smooth, and will fold, when dampened 
by dew, as taken from line. Those that 
are not to be ironed I will take from 
the line while dry in the sun and put 
away. 
I will sort clothes on the horse as I 
iron, and keep those needing mending by 
themselves. This saves one handling. 
Will keep white and colored buttons 
in separate boxes with threaded needle 
and thimble in each box. This is a great 
convenience. 
Will put my spools of thread away 
number side up. 
Will label every box and bag as to 
contents, from attic to cellar. 
So far as possible will follow the same 
order each day in doing the duties of the 
day. The time thus saved will be spent 
in reading, music, or resting and thus 
preserve my disposition from being frayed 
by nervous strain. So shall I “serve with 
joyfulness and with gladness of heart for 
the abundance of all things, as the Lord 
thy God” directed. dora morrell. 
Maryland. 
Moving Made Easy. 
VERY Spring and Fall a large per¬ 
centage of our “great American fam¬ 
ily” undergo what is frequently called 
the “agony of moving.” Whether this 
moving is simply from flat to flat in the 
city, or from farm to farm in the coun¬ 
try, the hard work and discomfort are 
much the same. Rut moving may be 
greatly simplified if you will try this 
“work reducer.” Instead of getting all 
the furniture into a jumble in the old 
house, and moving it helter skelter only 
to leave it in wild disarray in the down¬ 
stairs room of the new home, use this or¬ 
derly method: On each door of the new 
house tack or paste a good-sized num¬ 
ber, as No. 1, living room; No. 2 on the 
dining room door, etc. Then before mix¬ 
ing up the furniture which is to be 
moved from the old house paste or tie a 
numbered tag on each piece. All living 
room furniture will be No. 1 and will 
be placed in Room 1 in the new house; 
dining room furniture will be numbered 2 
and placed accordingly. With this meth¬ 
od each article will “arrive” in the right 
room and will therefore only need ar¬ 
ranging. If the numbers are pasted on 
use a flour paste so that the paper can 
be easily removed from the woodwork by 
using hot water. MRS. G. o. volovic. 
New York. 
Saving in Time. 
Many women waste hours in churning; 
in Summer the temperature is too high 
and Winter too low for the cream. We 
have learned to avoid this waste of time 
by using a dairy thermometer and thus 
have the cream just the right tempera¬ 
ture before operating the churn. 
When making lye hominy we always 
use the washboard for rubbing the black 
end off the corn, but having a brass 
board this year we used the horseradish 
grater and found the work was accom¬ 
plished in less time. A food chopper will 
grind a pint of horseradish in a fraction 
of the time it takes to do this work with 
the grater. 
When time is lost in hunting the work 
gloves sew a brass ring in the wrist and 
hang on a hook when not in use. 
A cup of kerosene in a pail of hot 
soapsuds will save time when washing 
windows, walls or floors. Dirty overalls, 
wristbands and other articles that re¬ 
quire extra rubbing can be quickly 
cleaned with a five-eent vegetable brush. 
The brush is also a time saver in washing 
all kinds of vegetables and dairy uten¬ 
sils. When getting a meal put a pan of 
hot soapsuds in a convenient place and 
wash every utensil when used. 
It often saves time to make the pie 
crust the day before using and when 
chilled it is even better. Baking powder 
biscuits can also be chilled. 
Dustless dust cloths and mops save 
much time as no dust is scattered. They 
can be made at home by soaking a flan¬ 
nel cloth in paraffin oil over night, then 
hang out to dry. These can be washed 
many times in hot soap suds without 
fresh oil. Equal parts of coal oil and 
turpentine also make good dustless dust¬ 
ers. 
To save time on washday without in¬ 
juring the clothes the following recipe 
needs only a trial to convince even the 
most skeptical. One ounce of powdered 
ammonia, one ounce of powdered borax, 
one ounce of salts of tartar, one pound 
of potash to one gallon of water. Place 
in a jug and use one half cupful to nine 
gallons of water for white clothes, boil 
20 minutes, rinse well and only badly 
soiled articles will need rubbing. After 
white clothes boil towels, etc. This 
water will not fade the colored clothes. 
Neither will it injure any fabric or the 
hands. The ounce of powdered borax is 
often omitted as the other ingredients are 
sufficient for the purpose. M. c. b. 
The Bathroom In The Farmhouse. 
—If it is impossible for you to have a 
modern bathroom in your farmhouse at 
present, then do the next best thing. Just 
set aside a room wherein each one in the 
house can wash the entire body at least 
once a week. If you can’t get water 
piped into it perhaps you can get drain¬ 
age for water out of it. When necessary 
you can do without either, but a tub you 
must have. An enameled tub new or sec¬ 
ondhand is best, but tin will do or even a 
wash tub. Be sure to have a stove in 
the bathroom. If the room is small per¬ 
haps an oil stove will do. With a warm 
room and plenty of water the bath will 
become a pleasure. It is well to have 
the bathroom as near the kitchen as pos¬ 
sible, so as to be close to the hot water. 
It can then be used for the hand washing 
room so necessary to men on the farm. 
The walls may be painted or enameled 
some desirable color, and table oil cloth 
placed where the splatter comes. 
Nebraska. MRS. A. b. avalker. 
Cheap Kindling. —We have solved the 
kindling question by putting into opera¬ 
tion a plan which at once includes econ¬ 
omy and tidiness; it is by making burnt 
match sticks kindle our fires. We use a 
number of matches, for various things, 
and while keeping them off the floor, 
out of the waste basket and places where 
they might otherwise kindle an unwel¬ 
come fire, we accumulate them and make 
a proper use of them. Underneath or 
beside each match safe in the house we 
have a tin receptacle into which the burnt 
match, after we have taken the precaution 
of seeing that the tire is extinct, is 
placed. About once a week some one 
makes the rounds and empties each tin 
box; the match sticks being placed in a 
paper bag and tied with string. This 
bag of kindling is then put into a larger 
tin box for safe keeping. In aking a 
fire progress is enhanced by having one 
or two of these bags -f match sticks as a 
starter. a. p. w. 
Farm Women's Problems. 
NE of the problems of a farmer’s wife 
is to find the time to do many things 
she would be glad to. Truly I can¬ 
not think of any special problems we 
have. I was brought up in a small vil¬ 
lage, in Vermont, then lived for five years 
m a small city, then for three years in 
Boston, where I found the other half, a 
city man born and bred. We left the city 
10 years ago for the farm up here in the 
Vermont mountains, and 1 have never re¬ 
gretted coming. We have both poor 
health, had when we left there, but so 
much bettor than we would have been in 
the city. A farm is the place to bring 
up boys. We have had many losses, but 
none of our family. So our greatest 
problem is how to escape such losses, 
when they come so suddenly there is no 
escape. Truly I think the same problems 
confront village and city women, even 
harder than farmers. Giving health, wis¬ 
dom to do the right thing at the right 
time, and our fair share of the ever need¬ 
ful (which The R. N.-Y. is trying to get 
for us) and in my own private opinion 
there is no place like a farm. We are 
near a village, good library, schools (there 
is my greatest problem; I wish the 
schools were different, but as they suit 
the rest I suppose my say would have 
little weight) telephones, auto’s, all the 
“city comforts” in fact why should we 
complain? MRS. w. n. l. 
Vermont. 
UTiniAT in my judgment do the farm 
VV women in our neighborhood most 
need?” I should say first, and fore¬ 
most they should read more, or take more 
of the leading women’s magazines, or The 
II. N.-Y., all of which give in recipes, 
ways and means of cooking and serving 
everyday foods and their values, which so 
many women do not know how to cook 
and serve in a palatable way. All around 
us here, some have hot biscuits, coffee 
ham or bacon and pies every day through 
the Summer, hardly ever have much of a 
garden, because the men haven’t the time 
to make garden as it should he, as it takes 
constant work, which is too much on 
women. By far the most important means 
to get farmers’ wives out of the old 
rut is to make the men over entirely, so 
they may see women’s needs in the way 
of conveniences, in kitchen, bathroom, 
running water in house and washhouse, 
etc. Then again “Uncle Sain” might do 
well sending, or having a teacher, where 
needed in neighborhood, teaching farmers’ 
wives how to make good bread and cook¬ 
ing the proper foods which must nourish 
the women, children and men. Lots and 
lots of them do not know how to make 
bread, and buy baker’s bread, not know¬ 
ing of its little food value. I have asked 
many of them why not make their own 
whole-wheat bread: they would say “Oh, 
I can’t make bread.” If they only knew 
that in eating or having their families 
eat whole-wheat bread every day, there 
would he less doctor’s bills! By far 
what is most needed is that they read 
more, many of them not having a single 
magazine or paper coming into the home. 
Missouri. MRS. K. 
S EVERAL things come up to perplex 
us here, and the most alarming thing 
seems to be the scarcity, of d 01119 stk' 
help. My idea of this is that the compli¬ 
cated ways of living will have to be simpli¬ 
fied and that if a crusade is made against 
this and we can be helped to systematize 
and simplify our housekeeping operations, 
one great step has been made. We, as a 
class, do not understand food values, nor do 
we practice sanitation as thoroughly as we 
should. We do not give enough atten¬ 
tion to ventilation, particularly in bed¬ 
rooms during cold weather. Personally, 
domestic help and food values are my 
troublesome questions. We live on a 
large farm and I have three and four 
men to cook for, making a family of five 
or six; a large house to care for and 
am not very strong. I put out washing 
and ironing, buy bread and yet can’t do 
it alone more than half the time. Help 
at $5 per week seems a luxury not de¬ 
sired. I know there should be some more 
satisfactory way. If there were 1 cru 
sade against this complex system of 
housekeeping it seems to me it would be 
of general benefit to the great army of 
farm women, mrs. b. l. c. 
Ohio. 
SOUND MANAGEMENT IN THE SCHOOLROOM. 
