Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1913 — VALUE OF CARD CATALOGUE [ARTICLE]

VALUE OF CARD CATALOGUE

System Makes for Efficiency tn Hous* work and Also Is of Great Aid to Economy. •

Few women outside of business and academic cfrcles realize the convenience . of the card catalogue system. One energetic woman who had been a very successful secretary, made an efficient housekeeper and homemaker because she remembered in her married life the devices that bad helped her in business. She had a number of catalogues to indicate tile state of her household supplies—linen, etc. —but the most interesting of all was her card catalogue cook book and menu index. It was just like a library catalogue, being composed of a couple of little drawers in a little cabinet filled with cards on which were typed recipes. These cards were grouped tinder appropriate heads and made readily accessible through a number of guide cards headed, Dinner, Soups, Entrees, Salads, Meats and Desserts. When faced with the awful problem “What shall we have to eat today?" she sijnply ran through her cards for the meal in question and often found the recipe for a dish she had quite forgotten about. For use as a cjok book, this arrangement Is much more convenient than the old book form. The collection of recipes grows rapidly too, as it is so easy to paste on a card a newspaper suggestion or a recipe from a household magazine, and slip the card into its proper place where it does not get lost, as loose papers have a habit of doing. The catalogue outfit is quite inexpensive and the utility of the scheme will certainly repay the original trouble of making.