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Show I : Woman's Page How to Fight the High Cost of Living Never Have Worried Over Debts Remembers Old Adage "He Who Goes a Borrowing Goes a Son-Civing" Never Tempted to ! Buy ou tbe Installment Plan In Yearly0 Rummage Don't Forget For-get to Clear Your Mind of Malice and Resentments-Seven Excellent Ex-cellent Recipes KEEPS OUT OF DEBT. Editor Woman's Page: Never in tho I fifteen years of our married life feRVe I we had any worry over debm Qui salary has varied all the way from j&Ofl to $2,00 and It never occurred to i me to have things we could not Afford Ht When a child I learned as a inemoiy gem Franklin's old adage, "He nrho goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing." IE and nil my life I have believed tb B unquestionably, j. No one has ever been able to tempi me Into buying nn article on tl!" m gtallment plnn of getting anything of ! any denrription before we mr. well able to afford it Ve have our own I home all pan! for and various other Investments i hat bring us in a n i lnterc?t I- is true in household man-I man-I agenicnt that "the little leaks sink the ship.' and "the little foxes spoil lh vines." In departments I'ke yours and from n faithful Btndj of thi cles in good magazines on household manapement and domestic sciem making rn especial study of economt ' I cal reripes, has romp my abllit) te ' make the most of my resources. i though rif;id economy is not nece3 t sarv nov . I still watcli those 'little leaks" and "little foxes" and this Is j I what ernbles us to " i to QU nnnk rn-i-i urn r jch tnnmii dispense with a itlephone and I I the money we (save on this supplies i tne nnd my small son car fare. When I I 1 see air staples in the line of pro nH rerles nrlwnised at a reduction 1 or der In postal card We go to hear some of the h?s' plays, but gei QO nt tickets Wr'o 11 never Indu ;e a ipp I I I . !)l .11 ' ' I financially but ph si a II I can make excellent randies and keep a supply of the home made on hand, so we are not tempted by tho 1 high priced article in the shops I We have frozen desserts frcquentl ' for which J have discovered recipes inquiring little cream. Tho cream is bal pula these in the class of luxuries lux-uries I make frozen pudding, fruit It es and a delicious chocolate cream, With miik and egg In winter v.. use snow for freezing or home frozen Ice I do our own laundry work do a few pieces every day. This saves the physical exhaustion that would follow a half day over the washtub. 1 sort these few pieces, soap well in tepid water, and let them Mine to a boil gradually; by stirring frequently tin y need scarcely he rubbed at all and are out of the way In about 20 mlnuti s U'e have a successful vegetable den. supplying the table with lettuce, green onions, radishes, cabbage, carrots, car-rots, beans, etc.. all summer long We have a yield ot celery that supplies U3 nearly all winter. Cf nurse the fact that my husband ' has no extravagant habits helps greatly great-ly He neithr chews, smokes nor drinks lie shaves himself and blackens black-ens his own boots, he also carries bis noon lunches from home. I might state also that we belong to the fresh air club, sleeping out of doors or with w indow a wide open in severest weather. This habit, with plenty of outdoor exercise and the use of freah fruits !n abundance, kjeps the doctor away At rate l Rave not had lo consult a physician in ten years. V . Id YOUR YEARLY RUMMAGE in rummaging through your ward pohes and cabinets for useless articles arti-cles to gie away do you ever s'op to go through the secret compartments of your own mind atul cast out the jank of malice which collects there during the year. No year should be ushered n without with-out good resolutions And the b resolution one can make is to unload a lot of prejudice from mind and heart Like the drawers of an old desk ' minds become filled with a lot of I trash No cleaning up and setting In j order is more necessary than that of the mind No Junk is more wisely disposed of ihan any malice thi may be held o-wards o-wards any cf our fellow men. Malice is wicked, hatred is the essence es-sence of sin itself It has tbe power of destroying no one 60 much as tin once who hates. It shrivels the soul and produces endless unhapplness " The bennty of living is in clean liness of mind. If you allow a collection of false ideas to fill your brain you stagnate you choke cui all healthy, liberal and j generous thoughts in the same man ner thai von ohoke the cells of your riesh with the dirt and microbes which nil the air. if von do not reg-ularly reg-ularly cleanse your bodli Many people Bpend hours bathing, oiling and pei fuming their bodies, and lorcet absolutely to cleanse th.ir minds. If we stop to think of the value of though! " will remember that one thought can cause the heart to stop, the tare to redden or blanch, the eyes to smart, and ugliness take the place of beauty Another thought can give the face an illumination which changes ugliness ugli-ness into divine loveliness This is the tune and dace to rummage rum-mage your minds. Determined purposes pur-poses cause advancement Start cleao, empt) those compartments of ymir mind which are clogged with resc-nt- |