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Show I Woman's Department ; Vegetables Just Before the Stores Olose-lEs a Me 1 to Pay Cash and Demand Bargains Why Many i Women Fail to Save Pried Mush a Wholesome Article. m & fierc Is a story that will Bet you IJ9 I nil guessing A man and wife, on fcjrJ $15 a. week, rear a family of four ljjj chlldron, buy two houses for $1,100. fSkl put In sewers, electric wiring, fence Ml? 'he grounds and make other improve-! improve-! ments all in six and ono-half years. My You cannot do it, Is the first rc-2t rc-2t sponse. A fish story, you will say. ! Fake, will cry another. Yet the lady -ff has glvcn us al! thc 'formation nec-IT3J nec-IT3J essary to look up the matter and lU$ Slvcs 0. J StUwell as reference. The .1 "Standard is convinced that the storv J is true Just read it and then you ) people that eannot make both ends I meet with leas children and more JJAi money, get ready to economize: iMjj Editor Standard: It takes an cn-tjjjj cn-tjjjj terprlsing newspaper sometimes to m help us sec ourselves as others see M us; so I found when my friends urged I rae to enter tho contest. I shall have 1 to begin at tho beginning to tell my : story properly, in order to lot others oth-ers seo what ca"n bo done with a "J small salary, If one goes the right ijgl way about it. 1 married my present RJj husband six and one-half years ago. fig Ho had ono child, I "had two. Ho K was getting $15 a week and we had 1 a chance to buy two small houses J right in town for eleven hundred and tj fifty dollars, pay like rent, with ln-jJJ ln-jJJ tercst S per cent. As I had tho Ml liousohold furniture, we did that. One 13 j house was rented for $7.60, which Helped us pay the interest. We began be-gan right away to improve the places by papering and painting each house, putting In water, putting up fences and gates. We built two coal houses and other buildings, dug a cellar, put i in lawns and lights for both "houses, jJjy my "husband doing all tho work him-?Sf him-?Sf solf nights and early mornings and on Sundays, with the exception of the It' lighting. Then we bought a piano. Ir Then a baby was born. My daughter It took vocal and Instrumental lessons, If paying for her own tuition. We l bought a range and several other W pieces of furniture. And now today we have our property all paid for. II have never at any lime gotten moro than $15 a week from my husband, hus-band, and very often less. Now I have two children at home and am getting $10 rent for the house next door. I pay $2 for phone, $1.50 for lights, $i for milk and cream. $5.70 for Insurance. Our taxes have been from $27 to $33, and one year $35, this year $37, water rent, $14.50. I pay cash for all I buy. 1 keep a few "chickens, which cost 35 cents a week to keep. I get eggs, enough to cock with at this time of year, PI but have had plenty to eat all sum-iij sum-iij mer. In the first season I watch J3 the markets and try to Get at the p stores sioout closing time so that I & cet my small fruits for a good deal '& , less than if I ordered over the phone 3' 'in the morning Consequently I 5! have my cellar full of pickles and If catsup and fresh fruit, jellies and jams enough to last till the return of m tho fruit season. 'j I make it a point to buy all Ogden a made goods. My one extravagance Is '2 butter. I buy three pounds of Blaneh-51 Blaneh-51 ard evcrj week. I buy the best I can. S Always use cane sugar. I economize on meat, not using the best. I get a rump roast at 35 or -10 S cents or a leg of mutton or lamb at 50 or 60 cents and roast It with pota-S pota-S toes for Sunday, have It cold for sup-A sup-A per and on Monday as it is wash day 1ft Then I fix it up for Tuesday, cither S in hash or stew with dumplings, or gf grind it and make a nice little meat & turn-over with a rich crust. We seldom If ever have a dinner without a dessert I mako a nice sal- 1 ad dressing which only costs about 15 wj cents for a quart, or 10 cents in tho pf summer, and it keeps Indefinitely. jjjj I buy my groceries In small quanti-jv quanti-jv titles so that I can pay cash from z2 wek to week, the weeks that I do not have to meet the light, telephone yh and insurance. 2 T put vegetables in the cellar or buy ; ono or two articles of clothing. I on-g on-g tertaln my club and wo go to a placo 3. of amusement once a week. M Hero are some of my meals: m Sunday Dinner. 2 Roast Beef. Potatoes, Gravy. 3 Creamed Carrots. Celery. ! rf Lettuce Salad. sh Apple Pie. Cheese. Hot Rolls. I i Coat about 40 cents. I Supper. 91 Cold Sliced Beef. Pickles. m Cheese. til Apple jelly. Cake. $3 Preserves. Bread, Butter. ft Peacb. Jam. f4 . About 25 cents. ' Breakfast. m Sliced Bananas, Cream. Mother's Wheat Hearts. Milk, Cream. h Toast Tea. A Cost about 10 cents, ifc Monday (Wash Day) Dinner. Sk Cold Beef. Fried Potatoes. Celery. ii Sliced Parsnips. Chill Sauce. Boiled Rice. Pie. Supper. Cream Toast. Cheese. Fruit Bread. Butter. Milk. Grape Jelly. Breakfast. J Cream of Wheat. M,ilk, Cream. Baked Apples, Cream. Toast. Tea. Tuesday Dlnnor. Meat Patties. Baked Potatoes. Cream of Celery. Rice and Raisin Pudding. Bread, Butter. Breakfast. Rolled Oats, Cream, Milk. Fresh Canned Peaches, Cream. Hot Biscuits. Butter, Honey. Supper. Fried Cheese on Toast, Baked Apples. Cake, Jelly. Bread, Butter. Milk, Tea. Wednesday Breakfast. Cream of Wheat Sliced Oranges, Sugar. Sago Cream Pudding. Corn Bread. Supper. Hashed Kidney on Toast. Cheese. Cookies. Milk, Tea. Thursday Dinner. Vegetable Soup. Soup Meat. Celery Baked Potatoes Macaroni, Cheese. Boiled Suet Pudding With Ralsius. Lemon Sauce. Friday Dinner. Baked Beans, Pickled Pork. Creamed Potatoes. Spinach. Hot Biscuits. Honey. Preserves. Saturday. Fried Salmon. Celery. Baked Potatoes Scalloped Tomatoes. Hot Rolls Light. Honey. Butter, Minco Pie Salad Dressing Boiled. About 1-4 pound of butter; put In a pan set In another of boiling water; when butter is hot stir in flour till like batter; stir free from lumps, add boiling water, stirring all tho time; beat up yolks of 2 or 3 eggs till thick add to same with 3 tablespoons of sugar, 1 salt spoon of white pepper, 2 teaspoons of salt. Mix two teaspoons tea-spoons of dry mustard with vinegar and mix nil together and whip with egg beater, adding vinegar till it tastes right and -should be of thc consistency of custard. Put in wide mouth bottles and thin with milk or cream. Will keep for months In cool place. "ONE OF THE MANY." |