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ARTHUR J. COLLINS & SON, Box40, Moorestown, New Jersey 
Btfnerican Agriculturist, February 1923 
Planned Menus Save Time 
Care of House Plants—An Inexpensive Stylish Dress 
P LANNING menus, of course, re¬ 
quires a little time and careful 
thought, but my system “kills two birds 
with one stone.” Friday night is my 
“planning night,” and I use the cheap¬ 
est corresponding cards I can get. On 
one side of a card I write the day’s 
menus and on the other side I write the 
recipes included in those meals that I 
do not bother trying to remember, so 
that I need not waste time with the 
cook book. I first look in my pantry to 
see what I have on hand, and then, 
after planning the meals for a whole 
week, I know just what groceries I need 
for that week, and can have my order 
ready for Saturday’s dealing without 
that bothersome forgetting of needed 
articles. That is one “bird,” Now for 
the other; 
I use white cards for every day, pink 
for Sunday, and blue for “specials,” 
such as harvesting and threshing grain. 
I write the menus with ink with the ex¬ 
ception of the day and the kind of 
cereal, cake, pudding, or pie. Those I 
write with lead pencil so they can be 
erased and used on other days with 
other kinds of cereal, etc., if so desired. 
By planning them that way, if you are 
sick, tired, or have something extra to 
do, you need only to know what you 
have on hand, select your cards accord¬ 
ingly, and behold! your meals are 
planned for a week, you can write your 
grocery order, and two worries are off 
your mind. 
Use Colored Cards 
When you have your collection of 
menu cards the “man of the house” and 
children will delight in helping select 
the menus for a week’s meals. I shall add 
a few words of warning here. Do not 
let the “menu system” be a tyrant. If 
my husband makes an unexpected visit 
to town, and brings home a steak for 
dinner, he gets it no matter what is on 
the menu for that meal. Or if the chil¬ 
dren express a wish for a different des¬ 
sert, and I know it in time and have the 
ingredients, they get it. A little stray¬ 
ing from the beaten path once in a 
while will not hurt the system, pro¬ 
vided you know it in time — especially 
in the matter of desserts. 
I never write the kind of preserves, 
jellies, and pickles on the cards, but 
just keep in mind the following rule: 
“Never repeat the same flavor twice 
at one meal.” For instance, if peaches 
are in the dessert, do not have peach 
preserves. As for pickles, do not serve 
very sour pickles with poultry and 
game, or very sweet pickles with pork 
and sea food. — Catharine R. Groves. 
CARING FOR HOUSEPLANTS 
BERTHA ALZADA 
* Improper methods of watering plants 
result in more fatalities than any one 
thing. Sometimes it is too much water 
and sometimes too little, but the effect 
is much tfie same, though the chances 
for life are entirely with the dry plant. 
The plant kept too wet will have the 
roots injured beyond much chance to 
save them, while the roots of the other 
in the dry soil will be sturdy. Such 
plants quickly recuperate when given 
right conditions. 
The right way to water plants is to 
examine the soil, water only when 
needed and then soak the whole ball of 
earth fully. To tell when the soil is 
dry enough, dig down a little, and take 
a large pinch between the fingers. If it 
will not stay in a solid mass, water is 
needed. If it does not crumble readily 
when you tap it, you will not water 
it yet. 
Where plants have been hurt badly 
by overwatering, the soil can seldom 
be made to give results. The best plan 
is to wash the soil from the roots gently 
and pot in new soil, and then keep on 
the dry side for awhile until it shows 
signs of recovery. Water will not help 
a sick plant, though the soil must not 
get dust-dry. Keep just at the point 
where the soil crumbles when pressed 
and tapped. 
Plants stunted from being kept too 
dry will need good water only. When 
the ball of earth gets dry and hard, as 
it does when watered often in small 
doses, it is hard to soak it up. The best 
way is to set the pot in a tub with two 
inches of water in the bottom, and let it 
take its time to soak through to the 
top. You may have to put more water 
in the tub, but if you can make it soak 
up in shallow water, it is better, as 
there is less danger of washing soil out 
when draining it afterward. 
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