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Show J Woman's Page jHow to Pight the High Cost of Living fM How Family of Six Live on $50 a Month Careful Housewife Man-J Man-J ages to Live Strictly Within Husband s Salary Practical 4ff Recipes and Suggestion' "Can Women Keep Secrets" Is Ans-vl Ans-vl wered By Lillian Russell Those Who Betray a Friend's Secrets Usually Vain Egotists, LIVES ON $50 A MONTH. I "Editor Woman's Page My hus-I hus-I land earns W a month There are tjL Six In the famil In the first place fw house rent cuts a big slice from his Ealarv We couldn't save mnch after 1 the rent and household expenses were i ha)d, bo we looked around for cheap-Ut cheap-Ut er quarters. m "There was a Utile old cottage tloser to his work, with a fine yard, larc shade trees, and best of all a k llarpe garden, but the place from out-Cuirif out-Cuirif ;.pp ;i::iie-ei not nouch to fU-llool-- at the garden filled with bruh End rubbish SflH on closer examin-F examin-F Ktion mp found It held great possi-IfciliM' possi-IfciliM' - f" ?c- (n rent wa nt ,Hne-quarter as mnch as we were pay- lng. arid n, id no garden at If "So in spite of friendly advice we nensred the i '1 r .1 ri . l set about re- 4KaliinK ;iii1 cleaning. We made a uc '"" ' 1 i ' raise all the Botatoes we need, raise all garden product, and 1 ruckle and salt and ran vegetables 'ill our cellar is well filled There Is ?ome small fruit and three apple trees on the plap and it is not unusual In Trr.lt years to put -up 300 quarts of fruit off our own -(tree nnd vines. I Besides, we have been able to cut -don expenses In full. Where it would ...J take nearh a ton of coal a month for J the furnace, here we need only two stoves nnri five tons of coal and four loads of wood carry us through the year In comfort I "I do mv own laundry work here, saving $1 a week, besides a seing of 6oap. 1 also do all our sewing "We have three boys, the oldest 9 ""' rears and two year agn I bought $10 0 worth of goods to make in suits for them T didn t need to use more than J half the roods the first v ear and had I enough left to make them enough salts to last them all this ear. I buv fifty-four inrh flannel and worsted Halting for w inter and Galatea and Otton coer cloth for summer The! hildren always look neat and up to ; Mate. None of them has less than j thre. n- w suits a year For the last three yean I have been ( running a llttir- carpet and nig loom land have more work than I can do It Hi not an unusual thine for nn husband hus-band to put $50, his wholp month's learn!ns in ibe hank some months "OUT-OF-TOWN WOMAN." FOR WOMEN ON FARMS 'An eastern farmer woman cures her salt pork and makes sausage She w hup her regular customers and takes a their orders each ear for calt pork, ESusage. lard, head cheese, and pick- led piss f. et She makes considerable consider-able more out oi her pork than if she fnip.rketr-d it in the usual way. W "She takes the side meat when, 1 strict fresh, cuts it into six inch ob. lor piecei Then she puts in the bottom ot a perfectly clean earthen Mar an Inch layer of rock salt, on this I she places the pieces of meat, then M another layer of salt, and so alter- nates the layers of salt and pork, let-. J tine hf top layer be B rhi V one ot I Ktalt Then pours on boiled water that ; nas been cooled, to keep the meat un-f un-f rip i the brine The meat should be Hltlrl f lat . not on I "3. R. A. ' W HOW ONE WOMAN MANAGES 1 w, I don't know that my way of doing j things decreased the high cost of llv-I llv-I ing but at k-r.at ii helps me to live within my husband's salary and mav 1 help others On the firs! of . at b W month 1 write checks to cover thei rent gas, electric licrht. and all the I numerous other thini,'H which ha 'be paid monthly. I total these checks and deduct this fro tnthe amount allowed al-lowed for the running of the house This figure I divide b the number of days in the month, and thus I obtain ob-tain the daily allowance Seven times that gives me the amount per week This I never exceed I pay cash for everything and buv at the store where I can get the best value! for my money, r buy onlv enough I for the one day T serve good, whole-1 some meals, but we never have dell-cades dell-cades out of season if there is any of the weekly allowance left '1 place1 It In my penny bank which I empty I once a month and add to my savings I account. I find we can live very com- fortabl and save a little each month by using a little caro and thought in the managing of the house "HOUSEWIIFE." PRACTICAL RECIPES AND SUGGESTIONS Light part One cup of sugar, one teaspoon lemon extract (1 use compound), com-pound), one-half cup of shortening, whites ot three eggs beaten to a stiff froth, two-thirds cup of sweet milk, two cups of flour containing a heap-In heap-In leaspoonful of baking powder. Dark part One cup of sugar, one tea&oonful vanilla extract, one tea-spoonful tea-spoonful each of cinnamon, cloves, and allspice, one-half cup of shortening shorten-ing yolks of four eggs, two-thirds cup of sweet milk, two cups of flour containing con-taining a heaping teaspoonfu! of baking bak-ing powder Mix the ingredients In the order given We use three square cake pans. Into two of them put a strip of the dark hatter using about a half an inch wide knife to straighten straight-en the edges'), then the white then the dark, and so on, making the last strip of the dark. In the third pan begin and end with the white Make boiled icing with the white of the fourth egg and put the cake to- 1 gotber. the white edged laver in the middle with all the strips running parallel and cut across them Chocolate mav be used instead of spices and a chocolate icing easily made by beating two tablespoons of dry cocoa into boiled icing just before putting it on the cake use neither spices nor chocolate and color the yellow part pink, using pink icing. C. A. R." UNPOLISHED RICE 'Editor Woman's Page I have noticed several letters of late Inquiring Inquir-ing abont unpolished rice. I live in a colony where most of the inhabitants inhabi-tants are vegetarians and rice is one of our chief articles of food Our grocer carries an excellent brand of unpolish rice. Perhaps, if our readers read-ers could tell their grocerymen where they could obtain It they would be pleased to get it for them When housewives in general learn more regarding re-garding food values and how we are actualh starving our families on inferior in-ferior foods, we shall not have so much difficulty in procuring wholesome whole-some articles of food DOR' CAN WOMEN KEEP SECRETS!" (Copyright 1913, by Lillian Russell It its generally and flippantly remarked re-marked that women cannot keep secrets, se-crets, but every woman knows deep down In her heart of hearts that she holds dearly raanj secrets that no one will ever root out It takes an Intelligent woman to tuard another's secret But there arei scores of w omen who hold secrets of I Vital Importance to others w ithout a I thought of the magnitude of their ral ue A man pays a woman a compliment when he confides his dearest secrets to her It Is human to sympathize and generally a man tells his secrets for sympathy. Sometimes man Is clever enough to realize that B woman's intuition is better than his hours of reasoning, foi deciding some vital question. There are few women who would divulge a man's secret knowing the value he placed upon It. I have known women who held secrets se-crets that could be sold for millions yet they would starve before betrav Ing a friend, and have done so Few-men Few-men can boast of a like act. The women who cannot be trusted are the egotists women who like to be entertaining, whose vanity compels com-pels them to add another wonder to any remarkable statement made b any one in their presence Such women wom-en are a menare to society. The docree forbidding members uf 'the German diplomatic corps to marry mar-ry foreign women is an insult to Americans, Am-ericans, and supgents more than it expresses ex-presses For most of the German diplomatic dip-lomatic corps seek their offices for tho opportunity to meet and marry rieh American girls, or they are married to rich Amerlejin women whose ambition ambi-tion and money obtain for their hus-, hus-, bands diplomatic positions. That such w omen r un not keep e I cret8 con well be Imagined, for they are light minded, as a rule and are faithful to no country or family Nature demands faithfulness to one's native land, marriage demand! faithfulness to one's husband; the combination is difficult and the beau ty of peaceful happiness must be un-know un-know n A German woman, married to nn American diplomat, would suffer In Just the 8i me way she surely would be true to her fatherland It's human nature to love your own country more when iu a foreign land than you do at home Ho we not see it every day from the invader who with smiles insult us? The keeping of a secret is neither a rnasrullne nor a feminine trait, and 1 venture to say that a valuable se Crol is safer In the keeping of a good woman than in the keeping of a good man When a woman has a Bonse of hon 1 r, and all clever women have, they are adamant and men are not J The German decree Is a gentle hint to Americans to keep their daughters at home Ambitious women can dabble in pol itlcs here as well as abroad And ati for men? Remember Our good Americans will match the world in honestv. brav ery and good look3. What more can women 3Bk9 COCOA SPONGE CAKE. "Editor Woman's Page I am a i young housekeeper and having receive, re-ceive, much help from your corner I am Klad of the opportunltv of contributing con-tributing a trifle to it. I append a recie asked for In a late issue bv r : If. : "COCOA SPONGE CAKE-Four eggs, one-quarter cup 0f sugar, pinch of Bait, four tablespoonfuls of cocoa, one-half mp pastry flour, one tea- spoonful vanilla Separate volks and whites, beat yolks until thick, add sugar, salt, and vanilla, beat again 'until thick. Sift cocoa and flour together to-gether and Btir lightlv into the mixture, mix-ture, fold in the beaten whites and bake in a loaf in a moderate oven Do I not butter the pan, but when the cake lis baked invert the pan and remove the rake when cool. E. G H." Washing Pillows I usually go over your department on Sundav and find much of Interest to a man who is "baching" One statement made wir- prise,) me and I will tell you about It j My mother used to w ash her pillows j just as she did her clothes, in the tub, the only difference being that she did not crush them through the wringer, and it takes longer lo dr th-rn Thev always came out sweet and clean and fluffy after two or three da' drying The steam radia-I radia-I tor is quicker than the sun and Just as good for drying If windows are open. "JOHN C." Velvet Lunch Cake One-half cup melted butter, one cup sugar one cup (sour milk, one teaspoon bakinc soda, lone egg two cups flour, one large spoon molasses, one teaspoon cinnamon, cinna-mon, one-quarter teaspoon each cloves and nutmeg ' B. A N' Warmed Over Mutton Cut cold boiled mutton into dice and cook for an hour in one cup stock to which you hae added an onion, peeled and chopped, two tablespoons butter, one clip green peas, one teaspoon salt, a little pepper "L. M A " Cure for Roup Tn reply to Marv F I would say that I hae raised chickens chick-ens for a number of years and have , found that a drop of kerosene In each I nof trll of a chicken with not too severe se-vere a case of roup Is a sure cure. "D. D." nn |