Show COMMENT FOR FORTHE COMMENT G L THE J HOUSEWIFE HOFE you will pardon tile the t fer ter being a s mam I t Ican I can cu hardly be considered nd as a a housewife h But the tile text tat of some of the letters letten upon aDOn tIM the Household Id Economy 7 subject seems a au del t excuse for Interfering to ta other toll folks business bum and putting my oar to In I J else ahm hope that my remarks may be bs of benefit to at I least ut a f few ew ef o those abase u 11 struggling housewives bo tv with whom I II n nTo To 1 am a and aDd father of two twe healthy boys boy tea ten and twelve years old two this fins girt Ririe P four and aDd six abt years 1 old We V have baY also a number of or tefa dop birds and ud chickens TIM The chickens are We Were W Ware sere are re people and are st between the tho quality of a good pod porterhouse steak and aid andone aidone one from frog the tho chuck AU All the t e articles placed on OD our air table are n Plain substantial goods of the t o vary best bat quality My Ky family is now DOW living in ts the tile country and when I and aM my ly mybo bo boys a sit lilt down dOWD at table said and commence an a attack upon a of f potatoes I am afraid raid the offset effect would somewhat disconcert d if it it t altogether paralyse tile the t e correspondent who w o only one ODe peck peek each week Six large loaves loavel of lead good bread would jut just keep beep us ua on OD the verge e of starvation lion tion for tor two days These two articles arUe bread and DC potatoes arc aie our staple food but it is It absolutely necessary that they be bo supplemented by t generous quantities of beet beef beet pork pout mutton mut ap gg and ad bacon b cos etc washed down by liberal quantities or ot ottea r tea coffee and aDel milk u and garnished by relays NIn of e fruit wit d salad lad and other commodities s swe We Wo do 40 a considerable amount of outside work and exer exar exercise cise and find ADd the tM food rood we eat Is Y necessary to tota preserve the stamina ta dna required for tor such work We w could not Me get pt along Without It ItI Our expenses ex for tor 1 or twelve months average for tor provis provY pro ion I cna soaps p oils 01 Is and aDel other necessaries b Right JUab here hen be I t want wot to say 1 that 1 I believe R M 1 to be for any woman man a or angel to supply auppl a table tab for tor four per PM peron bona on any such sum awn aa u four or five Ave or 01 six alx dollars doDan ars a week wHIt and feed teed them the in Ja Ins a substantial manner If 1 were WeN obliged to buy my meat by icy the tb thirteen opts cents worth my potatoes pota by the peck etc ece etc e eta paying PA the market price for each cb article all the year ear 1 round I you could not supply a amy UI Db my family JamIly as I 1 am at present doing doln for tor less Laos than ten tea dollars doIi ra raa a w We W buy 1 u In large larso quantities goods gooda of the t a very VerT seat beat quality qu at a tune time when the market la Is I at its lowest Last Lut sea aes son lion we ve bought twenty bushels bushel of potatoes at thirty omits They will be all gone before the new crop arrives ant We bu buy the highest beat grade of flour at four tour dollars dollar dol sod and fifty cents we wo use UN about eight bt barrels a year We consume co nearly a barrel a month during a scarcity of potatoes We buy sugar Bugar by one hundred pound sacks Backs two each year Beans Beana peas peu oatmeal and cornmeal etc by the peck pack bushel or hundred pounds pound We W consume tarp large quantities of these theae articles Canned goods we buy by 1 y the case cans Plea Figs dates pru prunes s and other dried fruit la tD packages Fresh fruit by y the barrel burrs or wholesale wl who basket Makei Salt alt by b the tile barrel barreI Boap by the box Headlight oil by the th barrel banel etc eta 5 o you have hae begun to think thick k that we must be vegetarians ta Yet we use four hind bind quarters quarte of beef beer at six tents cents per M d two sides aides ad of pork at ten teD cents centa two or three carcasses care of mutton mut mutton ton at eight cents elente een about pounds of salt It pork pound 1 of lard ant one ens o cuss case canned salmon 00 sad and ad a scattered gean of canned toaster and other delicatessen deU About one hundred pounds of 01 butter In ten tea pound Iota lota cost coat costIng Ing tn about bout sixteen teen to eighteen e teen cents centa I am alft looking forward f to Ie the t I time when I ean sun afford to buy my say satire entire years year staple supplies aup w for tor one ono shipment Owe Our expenses u n will wUI then amount to per par annum un for ter the tM same amount of goods Now I dont doat expect that everyone Is to In a position to buy 7 fifty dollars worth of groceries at one time UlDe or if ha he to Is that he has baa the convenience for storing aton them But I do think that thata a good deal of Improvement could be accomplished along 11 that thew lines i DeS Let these good pod little housewives approach their bus hus 1 bands anda In a businesslike way and get set them to ID the tIN plan of buying c wholesale If It some philanthropist would de do deNote Note ote a portion of his hla wealth to erecting public cold storage houses boules in popular places pw where people could store atoN goods GOda in quantities in small 1 rooms roo charging eq a monthly er or I yearly Nearly y arly rental it would prove a great benefit to city I The Th weekly weakly wages system and the u baW of buying b quantities Is the cause Quae of the working world class living living in thIs way Every Ever time they y purchase t e Just juat ea of ot a certain food tood for tor one meal an as allowance of 0 ten tea per seat oeM should bould be allowed for tor waste te Some of ot your our correspondents seem fearful lest then their lords and masters mute should happen ha D ac across ross the ef t A X M or But Bt If tt any aDY of them should happen across this letter letterI I would like Eke to say sa Boys Boy don dont t he be meant A woman cant eAt feed teed yon you and aDd the tile children children on four dollars dollan a week wed No not m Is f the best of times ue Be reasonable And If It Us te bank account Is Y not net large h enough enoh to allow of her ber drawing ad tum at least last t knock knoek your Our heads beada together and help belp her ber Form a Trust Its Ifs fashionable Consolidate your means aryl and thus thua reduce f fI expenses The writer of this excellent letter has baa touched lightly Ug Uc upon I the one weak spot in a system in the main maiD admirable The Thep people p who need most to practice economy see are N as U a rule of Wide vide ide application not DOt in a position to buy fifty dollars doll worth of or groceries at a time Furthermore and this point our correspondent guards sua by a tribute to his bIa thrift which me rte e have not room to publish the common species of hireling is Ia tempted by b an ample amp supply of or provisions to wastefulness Anne cried one oar mistress espying six ala fins fine potatoes at atthe atthe atthe the bottom of the pan pon of ot dirty water and parings the maid was U emptying into t the Those This are perfectly good why did you throw them away Faith and nd why I n Theres a three thIM barrels barN at e them In the cellar Taint Tain t worth a while Ue to be carrying g those few tew back It 1 t is b a representative anecdote and sadly true 1 Buy by b wholesale who when what you foa can Moral No o 2 Having dons done tide this take tab care can of the tM t e stoves stases at r elf Another paragraph sacrificed 1 to OM t a Tot i peso gave tn na n the writer opinion o that the u mm urn who deles last I IIan Ian lars a week wish to his wife for deserves to es be Ye i e tea upon peanuts and aDd liver 1 w wI WRITE to ask If It you nu or any of your Oar sisters could ten tell me I how bow to make a silk aUk waist waIR presentable p that is Y worn under nadir the arms anu It is good pod every other way not DOt a break or 01 son ssu anywhere II except under UDder the arms I am stout tout and aDd all mr waists waist go ao In hi n that way wa before beleN they are an soiled aoUd or l worn won sad and I cannot afford afro to throw them away I mend them as neatly as asI asI I can an but I always feel teel that someone is Ie noticing the paten do donot donot not feel at ease or dressed In them M w Uthe If U you JOu could sug suggest gest t some Borne way of trimming that would hid the patch a I be be very grateful and I J think all of my stout will feel f felY Vary verv elY much obliged d to you Ou If u you can help them out In tn their trouble DAILY Y READER My Ingenuity fails talla to conjure up a style of 01 trimming that can be tarried carried across from front to back close CiON under the tM tJI t arms arias If you are a clever needlewoman n you 01 can caD put Jaa In ba a a neatly neat that It wise will pot not be I four fret feet away ay when the seams have been t pressed pressed But I 1 re aa refer atei for fer sad and deter rr to tile the members of 0 over our Family Circle CInI HAVE cleaned black laos lace to tD a very simple pIe way tow bola by aMend a I Mend friend who learned It from a Preach French Is laundress dress Writ out of ot cold eold water two towels or 01 two pines pies of ot white cloth Lay the lace on D one ate being to pick out die iM f pat pattern t tern Cover Cown with the other an sod iron with a very hot bat iron Ins The be dirt will show OB on this the ese and aM the lace wU will w III he be stiffened slightly My 17 she aIM aloe oswe moved awed I Into tato a house bow that tbt had bad bedbugs In la It They were to In a wooden partition Parts parta arts green n into very hot bot water and a abrush tea II brush to It washed tile t e partition As tJI M Mr s baton dropped on the Poor glee then UMa washed till the tM water before putu putting down dowD a carpet w no DO IDO more baga Care t taken a to 80 not art the the it 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