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Show WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT How $25 in Cash Will Be Given to Four Ogden Wives Who Will Tell How a Family Can Be. Supported Decently on ?2 to $3 Per Day Every Family With Small Income Interested in This Contest Learn How to Save on Sven a Small Income. True to our promise, hero arc the rules for the $25 In cash tho Evening Standard will give away to thoso of our people who are willing to tell of their successful management of their household affairs on a small salary We want those whoa who gel less than $S0 per month to tell how they manage their household affairs and just what it coBte. The smaller your monthly allowance is tho more eager are wo to hear how you make both ends meet. We' arc told that there are 500 families fam-ilies in Ogden with from two to eight In a family that have not more than 52 per day for living expenses, which includes xent, groceries, provisions, heat, light clothing and pleasures. How do such families live on $2 per day? For tha't information we are offering of-fering $25 In cash prizes. Juat tell the story plainly Don't pay any attention to spelling or grammar. gram-mar. Our editor will put your story In proper shape: it will just tell the facts. If you make 30 cents worth of meat 'do for a dlnnor for six and have enough left over for supper tell It, but tell how you make it go so far, where others use. a dollar for just the dinner meat Tell how you make a -hotter meal of "left overs" than the original meal itself was. Now, ladles . of Ogden, the Standard means to do you a service In starting this worn-ana worn-ana department and wo want you to help us help those of your sisters who will be aided by the publication of how to make the most of what Is at their service. We are offering the $25 in cash for the recipe for six rneab such as people must have who have only $2 to $3 per day for all living expenses and how those meals are prepared and what il costs per month to maintain the family. Here are th-' rules. Don't wait until un-til the last day, but send in the story at once. Rules for the Economical Living Contest. Con-test. First The contest is onlv for wives and daughters of subscribers of the Evening Standard. Second The word "family" means more than two, father, mother and children Thhd The prizes will NOT be awarded to persons giving the cheapest cheap-est possible diet, but to those giving tho most wholesome diet for the least money, all other points being equal. Prices named must be obtainable generally gen-erally bj Ogden people. Fourth The contest will close on December 3. 1912. with the publication publica-tion of the Evening Standard on that day. Matter Tor the paper should always al-ways he sent in several days before lis publication. Fifth Each contestant will be required re-quired to furnish a three-meal menu for each of two davs The first da"s menu may be handed to the Eoning Standard nn da before Saturdav, November 23. and the second day's menu before Saturdav. November 30 On December 3 at 2: '.50 o'clock p m at the Standard office, the contestants contest-ants will meet and select by a majority ma-jority vote three judges- to make the awards The menu for one. two or three or more meals at a time may be sent In for publication. All contestants con-testants must clip their own menus from the paper and paste same on white paper and marked "first dav" and "second day" and signed with the full name with proper address, and deliver same to the Standard office before . o'clock on December 3, 1912. ZIoro than one day's menu may be offered at a time, but only two menus of three meals each can be entered for the final contest, and the menu entered for the first day miiBt have been published before November 23, and the second day's menu must have been published before November 30, 1912. Sixth The four persons presenting the menu for the most wholesome diet and method of preparing each meal and showing how a family can live decentlj on loss than $80 per month, and showing by Itemized statement the exact expenditures, will receive ono $10 prize 'and three $5 prizes in cash Seventh Be careful and Itemize the cost per month of just what you expend, on your family without creating cre-ating any debt. Give the price plainly plain-ly for all ypu buy, Gifts and dona-tlpna dona-tlpna do not count. State how large your family is. Do not place groceries grocer-ies and provisions in a lump sum, but state quantity and price. Eighth The Judges you select shall make the awards and their judgment shall be ffnal. Ninth Get your statements In as early as possible. They will be numbered num-bered in the order received and not more than two columns of the paper will bo devoted to this contest in anv one day, and if the contestants wait until the last few days thev may be too late for publication and o'nly statements state-ments published will onter the contest. con-test. Editor Standard: It is with pleasure I read your plan to help us housewives house-wives to make the best of that at our command. I am sure If you will only Keep at the high cost of living that you will he of inestimable help to your reader, and especially to us women. ,"ineuP w,luin 0,,r yearly income of $1,000 by a generous use of system. We are just 'common, ordlnarv" folk' living very simply and doing "all our own work. i "I want to tell now, however, how I keep down our table expenses. I plan meals for a week at a time, keeping the lift In the kitchen for ready reference. ref-erence. It takes about half an hour each Saturday evening, and if a 'penny 'pen-ny saved Is a penny parned.' then I earn $3 or more In that half hour. "There are so many housewives who do not plan meal6 for even a day wondering at 11 o'clock what to have for dinner, and usually 'winding up' by phoning John to bring 20 cents' worth of steak There ltls, just meat enough for dinner, unwholesome fried stuff at that, with the same unpre-pareduesa unpre-pareduesa at supper time. "Under the old haphazard .way wp seldom had dried corn or navy beans or soup bones, because I didn't thini-of thini-of them In time. But now, while -mv ,next neighbor, Mrs. Jones, is phoning for 20 cents' worth of beefsteak, I have a shank bone delivered the night before, that, will furnish soup stock for two days, and meat hoi for dinner, din-ner, sliced cold for supper and hashed or In meat cakes for dlruicr the next day. They cost the same-. Hers lastB just for dinner, and wc like ours just as well. "Tomorrow she will open a 15-cent can of corn or lxjas, while I have beans that I put to soak the night before. be-fore. She will order a pie from the grocery: I will have bread pudding. And this difference is largelj' J may say entiroly because I know what 1 shall have and have It prepared. "Then, too, I save time where I most need it. We will have wheat cakes, maple ayrup (made from sugar, water and mapleine), and coffee foi breakfast break-fast When I come to the kitchen in the morning the cakes are ready to mix, the griddles are on the stove, the syrup pitcher filled, the coffee measured. Mrs Jones thinks as she hustles out of bed, 'What on earlh will I get for breakfast?' and finds her coffee can empty and only two slices of bread when she comes down to the kitchen "Try my plan for a month and you i will never give it up. At first you will i find difficulties, of course, and It will take time. too. But at the end of the month you will find your weekly1 bills diminishing, your spare time Increasing Increas-ing and your family 'waxing fat and not 'kicking.' At least that Is my experience ex-perience of a year and a half. "M. B S." . Editor Woman's Department, Ogden Standard- Off and on for the past two years I have done my own cooking, and during dur-ing that time three dogs have left me, because they could not stand m cuisine. While, as a result of my econom, I have been able to save considerable money, unfortunately I ruined my stomach and m health and have been compelled eventually to spend all inv savings for Plant Juice. In my researches I have dlscovere-1 lhat using Gold Dust Instead of coffee not only improves the taste, but gives a color not at all unpleasant to the eye. Also that the equal blending of batter and kerosene oil gives hot cakes a buoyancy and flavor they would not otherwise possess In the making of pastry or any kind of fine cooking T find vaseline or mentholatum far cheaper and better than hutteiv lard or Cottolene Good cooking is certainly a science, and requires mental aplomb, moral self control and angelic patience galore, coupled with manual dexterity, natural aptitude, adroitness, knack, discrimination discrimi-nation and general knowledge of occultism, oc-cultism, possessed by many women, but few men. 1 look forward to the series of articles ar-ticles j on are about to inaugurate with no small degree of Interest. A MAN COOK. The name of the writer of the fote-going fote-going will lnj furnished to any old maid or widow who is matrimonially inclined The Standard guarantees the man cool, has an income In excess of $80 pei month. There Is no intention to start a matrimonial bureau, but the letter from the man cook shows that he Is in need of a wife, and we know he can support one. Ed. sidetrack near Uiyton last week. The explosion completely destroyed the railroad proporty on the siding. The land upon which tho track was built is claimed by Jesse M. Smith and the railroad company also has a title Although Smith kept a sharp lookout the company constructed the track while he was away. Upon arriving ar-riving homp ho Immediately built a fence across the track, but tho railroad rail-road company backed a freight train through the obstruction and proceeded proceed-ed to use the siding. The dynamite followed and so far the railroad company com-pany has not discovered the perpetrator. perpe-trator. A visit to the Smith home brought forth the Information that Mr. Smith had gone to Nevada on personal business bus-iness Mrs. Smith stated that her husband owns tho land in question and that thoy have deeds and documents docu-ments to prove their claim. Although she knew that the track was dynamited dyna-mited she disavowed any personal knowledge of the affair and said that her husband was In Kajsvlllo at the time of the explosion. I n |