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Show jjet Cms"11 'ves ome uae Infor-i Infor-i Bdtion to Housewives and the f' Ladies in General, i ij TEKT LATEST PAEIS PASHIONS i,f resorption of Two Toilets Eeoently Seen in the Gay City of "Paree." , ' The bes, way to"keep'vegf bte fresh? '. .. . If the greengrocer who is in the habit Joeing his entire stock on trestle-,r trestle-,r outside his store door, trusting to ,,u trade to sell the most of it. before it comes unsalable from the effect of sun i dust, would follow the plan pro-sed pro-sed by the writer some years ago, and slow degrees gaining' favor because reduces the percentage of loss from ' i, he would gratify his customers mensely in addition.' The simplest J to make is Place the bulk of his rning's purchase of perishable goods the coolest and darkest part of his nje, A dark cellar is the best of all inn for this use, unless he has an ice j large enough to receive the vegetans, vegeta-ns, if not the cases. A cold room of urge would be incomparable. Only s largest dealers have such rooms, t the vegetables in their original ses in a cool, dark place, sprinkle em with water, and only bring them I :o the light in quantities as required r sale. If at night any remain unsold ikthern over, throw away the injured rtions, again Bprinkle them with cold iter and leave them in the dark. By is attention given to them night and )rning they will keep good several ys. if possible put that small quantity of th which serves as a sample in a glass w, after first trimming off all defective rts and washing the vegetables in cool iter. Then, iuclosinif them in the case. ey will look fresh and inviting. If housewives all over the country laid follow the example of many of j pupils, and make it a condition of ide thut their dealers shall keep their netables somewhat in this way, they 11 soon prove the advantage of it to e tradesmen's satisfaction. Tho points be noted are freedom from air, dust, at, decayed parts and keeping the lit and vegetables in a cool dark ice, One portion of the ioe box racked '. or the vegetables wrapped in a large )th, will keep them from contact with her foods, except always that nothing ould ever be put into the same ice box th either milk, cream or butter. An tirely separate box must be kept for cse articles if they are to be in the best edition. To return to the idea which I have ng advocated of one person buying for veral neighboring families. If every housekeeper would inform rself toward night aa to supplies on nd, the requirements in quantity of f dry groceries and, for the temporary pply of such perishable foods as milk, am, butter, fre'sh meat, poultry, fish, ?etables and fruit, the buyer could ike the round of her customers during r evening, make up her market list, lire before 11 o'clock, so as to t add be at the market before 6 m. At any hour between 4 and a.m. the vegetables and fruit are -itiful; the meats, poultry and fish n be bought later, and the dry grocer-i. grocer-i. such as sugar, tea and coffee, at any nvenient hour. The goods should be hveredin bulk at the buyers' house d distributed from that point accord- to her orders. Just such purchases t being made in several places as the suit of the first inception of the work me three or four years ago. Success tends upon the way the thing is un-rtaken.' un-rtaken.' ' equally, does the success of the i for inducing dealers to take the st care of food supplies while they are sang through their hands. That the <h of the family greatly depends "D this goes without saying in these ys when housewives give so much JR?ht to the government of their lit-tingdoms. lit-tingdoms. Juliet Corson. |