The skilful cook : a practical manual of modern experience / by Mary Harrison.

  • Harrison, Mary.
Date:
1909
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Credit: The skilful cook : a practical manual of modern experience / by Mary Harrison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HINTS TO YOUNG HOUSEKEEPERS. She looketh well to the ways of her household. Proverbs of Solomon. Take care that you know definitely what sum you can afford to spend on your household expenses, and make it a point of conscience never to exceed it. Market -with ready money, if possible; but, if it is more convenient to pay by the month, or quarter, never make that an excuse for letting your bills mount up to double what you can afford to pay. With accounts, carefully kept, it is quite possible to regulate the expenditure to the income. Never order tilings at random, but inquire the price of everything before purchasing. Take every pains to know how to judge of the quality of meat, groceries, &c., so that you may not be imposed on. Never be ashamed to say you cannot afford to have this or that. To be poor may be a misfortune, but it is not a fault; and, indeed, to be rich is often a far greater misfortune. The discipline of poverty, and the self-denial it involves, will often strengthen a character which the luxury of riches would enervate. Cultivate sufficient independence of character to enable you to form your household, and regulate your expenses according to your own means, and not according to the in- come of your neighbours. What does it matter if some may sneer at your thread-bare carpets and frugal fare ? The approval of your own conscience is of far more importance than the friendship of the vulgar-minded. Above all things keep your accounts most strictly. Without this you are