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Show poman's Page! How to nght the High Cost of Living! I Menu For Tomorrow's Meals Two Excelhnt Tried Recipes I Submitted by Readers of This Paper Says Women as a Class f Are Selfish Use Practil Common Sense in Solving High Cost I of Living, A LITTLE EARLY MORNING THOUGHT , From iry obseratlon of wotnn a? a lass it seems to me tlie ore selfish R"he entire brain is concentrated uPn SccumnIatinR more and more things. Such as furniture, clothing, letter and Better houses, etc. A certain amount mt constant improvement inour living Conditions is right and proper, but oes It ever occur to them that while ihey and the children are surrounding Eiemsclves with all these charming 'things the husband and father Is working slavishly for every bit of new fcshogany and colonial cblniz that fees into the beautiful hOSSe? By all leans build a "house beautiful, Rrhethcr It be a small cltrflat or lux prlouBly nesting amonc suburban bees, but let It be a home v. here rev-rence rev-rence and consideration for the father's fa-ther's dally efTort is noticed and appreciated ap-preciated Plain. Bimplp thinking by ivomen wil reduce the high cost of living They are creatures of habit. Shelr grandmothers and mothers al-prays al-prays did so and so and they continue In the same blind track. H Is much paster to keep on treading the same Bid mill of spending and spending than it Is to think and plan beautiful beau-tiful simple liTe We keep on piling tip clothes, brie a brae and useless fime wasters. To save time is to save fenoney I Eliminate and think Before lightly sa "I'm out of money," and Mr Husband lays down ?25 or so for OU to spend on bridge, perhaps, or matinee, or t lie inevitable sewing wo-jnan, wo-jnan, think a little See if your hands sren't clever enough to fashion an artistic ar-tistic blouse or a dainty frock. Tk oy of creating something pretty In In inexpenshe way will give you hours of satisfaction, where a bridge party or a poor pla at the matinee rould bring only ennui. To thought-hillv thought-hillv arrange a room, to make a dres p paint a picture, yo read a good book to keep the fingers In constant pra Lice of doinp clever things, all th'.-tends th'.-tends to make the "woman beau ifu the "house beautiful," and the purse run. A satteried and contented husband rings the deepest Jov. Tt Is ror wom-In wom-In and children to share the careful aandling of the Income and accumu-ate accumu-ate less mahogany and yold band ch'.-la. ch'.-la. I To love, to think, to pian. to work ind to spend carefully Study to elim-pate elim-pate nno" simplif and soun you wi ! rind time to turn from dusting the Boi6onne and look at the man of the family "Lift un your hands" and aelp lv.m u he! p ou. This is not a preachment. Just a Ble early moraine: thcusht fcr you. hope it helps K H. MEANS TIME AND EFFORT. I The greatest factor in solving the bblem of high cost of living, I hn" Knfid. is practical common Bense Kidom pii ning nd buj ii brance of market supplies and prh jncan extravacanre every 'inic. ITelepiione order? rchases. and Inrines.; In m e'6 s-ir acnuainterj 'iih ihings on Ke market . nd in season snow a Kg. of interest and Indifference not Kin j -a i w ' ' .. - ' Kf a maid is kept the hoi:. I should at least plan the meals and do; the ordering, making a visit each day to the pnntry to discover just what Us needs and possibilities are. there by preventing unnec?ssnry orders and rendering possible the use of leftover. that might otherwise be thrown away If expensive cuts of meat are bought and good cuts nre advisable if pur chased In such ciuantltics as to avail when cooked In various ways for s" eral meals -balance the cost by cut tincr out one course or by having an lnexpensie salnd and simple dessert. Plan the cooking of several thin"-at thin"-at the same time If meat is to be roasted, then bake also potatoes, apples ap-ples or pudding. If a large kettle is used for soup or something thai requires re-quires Ions boiling, then steam a vegetable veg-etable or pudding over It All this of course, means some out lay of time and effort but so does anvthlng that Is worth while; ami it certainly is the duty of everv woman to show her ability to cope with the domestic problems within the home especially if she is desirous of helping to solve some of the larger political ones outside G A E. MENU FOR TUESDAY. Breakfast Baked Apples. Hominy and Cream. Baked Kggs Popo ers Toast. Tea Coffee. Luncheon. Fried scrapple Creamed Potatoes Quick Biscuit Maple Syrup With Biscuit. Cocoa Dinner. Cream of Turnip Soup (a Left-over Beef's Heart Stuffed and Baked. Hominy Pudding (a Left-over.) Carrots Saute. Cottage Pudding Coffee RECIPES Cornmeal Dressing for Turkey. Make your cornbread as follows: One pint sour milk one teaspoon sodu. one teaspoon baking powder, one teaspoon tea-spoon sail, one tablespoon sugar, two tablespoons shortening, equal parts Commeal and flour, enough to make medium thick paste. Beat all togeth er well, grease a heavy pan and sprinkle sprin-kle cornmeal on It, have the pan hot. put in your bread and bake it lu u Blow oven. For your dressing the bread must be at least a da old. older i better Crumble it fine, add a little salt, pep' 5r and butter; mix well and stir, then put into turk- J. D T. CARAMEL PIE One pint sweet milk, one cup brown susaT oiks of two eggs, one heaping tablespoon flour, one teaspoon vanll la, small piece butter Scald milk and sugar together, stirring a little until sugar is moistened with a Ht-J t'e milk When thick remove from fire, add butter and when tool Dut in vanilla. Beat whites of eges stiff, add Ing a little sugar anil vanilla, bake pie in cooked crust, put merlncne over top and brown lightly K. E B co- |