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40 work. Suppose there are some stale rolls and a half loaf of very hard bread in the bread box. Make them into a bread pudding, or cut the bread into tiny cubes and toast them to eat with soup. You may get out the rolling pin and the bread board and crush them into bread crumbs. These can be kept in a glass jar, covered, for a long time and will help mother when she wants to roll her croquettes or meat balls. Another way of saving is to do as the French do, save all the green tops of vegetables that most people throw away, and use them in some valuable way. The tops of carrots, beets, parsnips, celery, and leeks may simmer in the soup pot on the back of the stove and make a most delicious flavoring for soup or stew.

We ought never to take off a potato’s jacket before cooking. The most nourishing part of the potato, the part that makes it grow, and us too, is next the skin. Lemon peel is better, grated, for flavoring than lemon extract. Orange peel may be dried, and grape fruit peel, too, and used for lighting the fire because they are full of natural oils. The cereal left from breakfast may be fried and eaten instead of potatoes with meat, for supper. And the girl who works in the kitchen in this careful way will find other ways of saving, too.

What can the boys do to save for Uncle Sam?