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Show Woman's Page I How to Fight the High Cost of Living J I . ; Some Practical Don'ts Young Man and Chum Saving For a Good Purpose-Four Tried Recipe-The Fun Loving Girl-PopuJar Everywhere and to the End. SOME PRACTICAL DON'TS. k "Editor Woman's Pago I am aond I Ing you a few "don'ts"' that may prove. jH helpful to some: kf "Don't be too much afraid of bein.z i called a "bargain hunter." Go where H you can do the beet with your money Get good, wholesome food and see that It Is properly cookea Uon't get B the idea that the most expensive cuts 9 of meat are always the best, for even tbey can be spoiled In cooking. If you have been accustomed to paying the highest price, try something else now 'M and then. Select a flank steak; have your butcher make a 'pocket' In It and J fill the same with a nice dressing. Bake till it is thoroughly done, and It M your John doesn t call tills good he i must indeed be a hard one to please When j ou Invite your friends to lunch J don't make an elaborate 9pn?ad oi it, hut let it be a lunch plain, simple and daintily served "Don't trv to adopt all the fashions M leave that to those who have nothing noth-ing else to do Do what you can to M make horn pleasant for your children I but don't be so foolish as to spend j W or $10 in decorations for their Christ fl mas tree simply because your nolgh bor "blew in" that amount If ho happens to have a mint of money, let f him spend it as he likes, but don't follow iu his footsteps. A hard working work-ing woman said to me one day: "My little girl shall have a pair of roller J skates if I have to wash for them " To my mind, these are luxuries, not J necessities, and poor weapons with which to fight the high coBt of living "It is well to remember the old say Ing. Waste not, want not.' Don't think because there is only a spoonful of this or that loft in the dish that it might as well go to the garbage can All left overs In the line of vegeta blee, legumes, and cereals, can be put together and made into a nice little kettle of soup, adding, if you like, a lice of onion or a daBh of onion salt to give it a pleasing relish J "L. R. A." FUN LOVING GIRLS. (Copyright 1913 By Lauda Jean Lib-bey Lib-bey ) I do love the girl who is always ready for a merry laugh, who can appreciate ap-preciate a witty story or quip, and who looks on the bright side or life. She may have her little trials and j tribulations just the Bame as every - one else, but she is too considerate to bore her friends with her woes. The Jolly, fun loving girl is always popular popu-lar among her mates She can al-wavs al-wavs bo depended upon to get out her skates on five minutes' notice and , join the party en route for the frozen pond It is she who arouses enthusiasm enthu-siasm in the hearts of the country I swain, aye. and the city boys for that matter, as to what a fine lark a straw ride would be. with some country coun-try inn a6 the objeethe point, where-dancing where-dancing and feasting could be ln-j ln-j dulgeo in, though the thermometer! did register zero weather Every one is delighted to see the fun loving, jolly clrls face at the door She docs quite as much good as the doctor in otring the blues and smuggles the sunshine in, no matter how manv shutters and s'aades are drawn to keep it out She is like a hard- plant, she can thrive with but little attention She is sure to have adorers a-plent No lover is absolutely certain cer-tain that he can win her until he has ' her by the hand clasped tightly at , the altar Somehow she never makes enemies of the lovers whose attention the refuses she sends them aw3y no I graciou6)v and ouiet as though love should never le taken seriously. She i f allows the houe that has been ?tow- ; ' iflg in their breasts to dwindle awav ' slowly and by degrees for want of nourishment. She s a tiptop comrade, this fun loving girl I wish there were more I like her No wonder she holds the admiration of her husband to the end of her days. We often wonder why some homes are bright, happ ' and sunshinv. while others are dull and gloomy there's a reason usually ; Some girls believe nature intended them to be gloomy, even morose, and I wit COuldn'' b an v thing else hat ar rant nonsense' What a libel upon poor, overworked mother nature' na-ture' Cheerfulness can be acquired bv study of others who are genial and Companionable Chae away gloom thoughts A smile lights up the fare of even the plainest of girls, making it beautiful; a frown of -discontent makes even a pretty girl displeasing to the eye. One girl I knew, who confessed that she has a temper like Xantlppe. took mv tip to read nothing noth-ing hut joke books for awhile the plan worked splendidly E.ery girl can make of herself what she will, either downhearted, or bright, merry, and fun loving. YOUNG MAN SAVES MONEY. "I am a young man and earn $12 a week, my chum earning a like amount. Out of this $12 1 spend $1.75 for room , rental, $3 GO for meals, about 2." cents for carfare, $1 for extra amusements, $2.50 for clothes, laundry, etc. leaving leav-ing $3 a week My chum follows the same plan, and we both have a nit little bank account "We find it a great 6aving from our meal tickets to keep fruit crackers, cereals, etc., in our room, and as wo buy a quart of milk every morning w ran prepare our own breakfast and desserts In our room, thus saing that extra expense at the restaurant "As we are only a few blocks from our place of employment, we walk most of the Unie, saving 5 cents and enjolng the fresh air "Another groat saving to us is our knack and skill In mending our own clothes. We are saing our money to take a course of study in some good, practical school G. C. J.' RECIPES. Bread Croquettes One 9mall loaf jof stale bread one small onion, onu i tablespoon of butter, one egg and one teaspoon of extract of beef. Soak the brend In water until soft, then squeeze out dry Add one onion cut up fine, melted butter, and one egg Mix well and add one teaspoon of extract of j beef Stir well Form the mixture Into balls and dip into bread crumb I or flour Fry brown in hot pure leaf lard Butttrmilk Cake One cup of gran j ulnted sugar, one fourth cup of pure loaf lard, two cups oi sifted flour (one half cup of the flour being used to dredge the half box of seedless rals jins), one half teaspoon each of ground I allspice cloves and nutmeg, and one jcup or buttermilk with one level tea spoon of soda Bake one hour In mod jerate oven. Ice with one cup of brown sugar, one fourth cup of milk and jwhen thick stir Into the stiffly beaten White of egg Flavor w ith vanilla Meat Pie Put in a pan alternate layers of roast beef, two onions chop-1 chop-1 ped fine, six hard boiled eggs, an 1 six siloed Irish potatoes .1 i two cups of hot water, salt and pepper to I taste Cover well with paatrj made with one and a half cups of flour, one small tablespoon of pure leaf lard I pinch of salt and enough Ice cold v n ter to make a soft dough Bake slo J.v MRS. J. B. C." To Corn Beef Put two or thru pounds of the under part of a round into tho bottom of a pot. season with pepper and salt Just enough for a i thin latr of spit and a d.ish of pep per. Put some of tiu- seasoning Into the pot first; then the beef and sprin kle that with both Add a little plec of saltpeter Too much mnkes the meat hard I make sure the beef is sufficiently salted; then cover some inches deep in cold water Set in a cold place and keep covered In five days the meat will be pink all through and read to eat 1 pickle my pork in the same way, but put In more salt HOUSEMOTHER |