We have all heard of gingerbread houses or gingerbread work upon them, but the meaning is not half so literally intended as a remark I heard when old Mr. Stick-tite was building the fine view four-story Sticktite House at Jimsonvale Junction. It was said he built that house with money saved by drying the broken pieces of bread and crushing them to use instead of cracker meal to bread-crumb fried oysters and fish and other things. No doubt but that particular was but one tangible point seized upon to represent a life full of small saving ways, by which wealth was acquired in the long run. But I don't see where the harm was in that. Mr. Stick tite had the depot eating house and he had a large oyster trade besides and he was not the man to give grounds for the cutting sarcasms which are flung at rail-road eating-house sandwiches, bread and rolls. When they became dry - really, dry and hard - he, instead of palming them off upon helpless travelers took them off his counters and tables and even out of his show cases, had the dark crust shaved off and spread them on trays in a warm place over the oven to become dry enough to crush; then, to keep the boys and girls out of mishchief between train times, he made them roll and sift the dried bread so that it looked like corn meal or cracker meal. And some of them could easily save their wages that way. It does not take long to use up a barrel of cracker meal where there is a considerable trade in fried oysters or in a hotel where veal cutlets and fried mush are breaded every day. As our price list of groceries shows cracker meal costs exactly the same price as new crackers, or seven dollars a hundred, so a hundred pounds of crushed dried bread is worth just that amount.

But is it as good? is the question.

Yes, if selected and freed from crust before crushing.