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Show Economizing Fuel. One of our girls writes me that I should stir up the "head of the family" in the matter of providing fuel ! jr the summer months, when the whole family fam-ily will be kept busy from seedtinii to harvest. The stirring should have been done some time age especially on the part of the gude mon, for by the tir.ie this gets into print the busy .season will be well begun. But, if the supply has been neglected, it is not yet too late to "get busy" about the fuel pile, whether coal or wod, and it will be better still, if gas is not available, to supply the housewife with a good gasoline gaso-line stove one of the latest improved 1 kinds, from which there is little dancer , of explosion through careless handling. Our girl says she would not so much mind the cooking and laundry la hot weather, if she did not, half the time, have to go out and hunt up fuel to work with. A great deal of the work requiring a hot fire could, if the fuel was at hahd, be done In the early hours of the day, leaving the lighter work to fill in later. But when a woman has to hurry breakfast, with the least possible pos-sible supply of fuel, and then, hefore she can go on with the heavy cooking and baking go out and hunt up the necessary fuel, often having to chop or saw her own wood that is too much. It is extravagance of time, fuel and the strength of the woman. There Is little chance to lessen the heat of the kitchen during the hot hours. Men that are so Indifferent to their own interest in-terest should be made to eat cold meat scraps, baker's bread and pies, and wear their clothes without ironing. That might not seem much of a punishment pun-ishment for a time; but let him try it especially the "store" bread and pies for a few weeks. I think the fuel would be forthcoming. A housewife gets what she demands no more, and if she "puts up" with such treatment, the heal of the family is generally perfectly per-fectly willing to be relieved of the fuel question, knowing that if the "lord" will not provide, the wife will, and It would do him good to go hungry awhile. Try it. Nothing will stir such a man like hunger. |