Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1913 — VALUABLE SCRAP BOOK [ARTICLE]

VALUABLE SCRAP BOOK

THAT ALWAYB USEFUL COLLECTION OF CUPPINGS.

May Be Very Easily Made at Home— Appropriate Classification Will Save Time When Special Rec-’ . > ipe la Called For.

There are several ways to keep clippings, but the simplest for the average housekeeper is to put them in books under appropriate headings. Buy a large blank book or make one from heavy yellow paper, which can be bought by the wholesale, cut in any desired size. A little broader than the ordinary magazine Is a conyenienF size to handle. Cut the pages for thumb indexing, but instead of having letters represent the Index make the spaces a little broader and put department heads. Thus for a recipe book have the different groups alphabetically arranged, as Aspics, Broths, Biscuits, Cakes. Custards, Drinks and so on in as many divisions.as may be convenient. It will be not only cheaper, but more satisfactory to make the book and bind it between cardboard covers. These should be punched with three or four holes and covered with either crash or a thin oilcloth that is easily kept clean. At small cost the paper can be punched with similar holeft, and the pages can be tied into the covers. In this way new pages can be added to each division as is necessary. Instead of making a conglomerate book, it is well to start several. One on household hints, house furnishing, laundry notes and cleaning recipes would prove a boon in every home. In such a book one of the divisions could be classified advertisements that most women think they will test some time, but never can remember where they are to be found when wanted. Another book on health and beauty clippings, care of the sick and nursing notes will prove useful, while no gardener who has ever had a classified collection of good garden clippings could ever be induced to part with it- T