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Show Woman's Page How to Fight the High Cost of Living I Live Down to Your Income Expense Octopus Must Be Struggled With Sooner or Later Three Live Well on 60 Cents a Day j Recipes Heat Producing Foods Gadding Girls Not Loved as Well as the Home Girl. Live down to your income "Editor Woman'a Page: The I high cost of living 18 an oc-I oc-I topus with which we must all strug-gle, strug-gle, Booner or later. There are fifty- seven varieties of reasons for Its be Ing, but chief among these is the fact ; that the majority of families live up to and beyonl their incomes. "Every raise means not so many ad' i ditional ciphers to that budding bank account, but so many additional ex-' ex-' pendlturos. If hubby's pay check reads $15 per, wifie is content with a $15 a month house, but If he cornea home with the joyful announcement that he has been raised to $20, she Immediately has blissful visions of steam heated apartments at $25 or $30 ! a month And so on up the scale I I "Judging from observation, the man 1 earning the least saves more propor-, propor-, I tlonately than the man higher up In I the wage scale. High wages breed .in egotism that blinds the individual to the possibility of a rainy day or mis- fortune of any sort overtaking him He hopes for the best, but fails to pre-; pre-; pare for the worst. "Live DOWN to your income, no matter what it Is, and be a law unto yourself. Set your own pace, and do not regulate your style of living by some one whose income mav be twice a6 large as yours. The fact is. the majority of mankind is born with an J automobile taste and a wheelbarrow I pocketbook, but while some must grat j lfy their expensive tastes at any cost. the wise man gives the wheelbarrow a fresh coat of paint buys a horn and I "toots" with all his might for the i simple life "On which side of the fence are you" ' MRS GRAY." GADDING GIRLS. (Coin-right 1912 By Laura Jean Libbey Haven t you heard cirls boast that I they have something on hand for ev-I ev-I ery afternoon In the week9 BJven I their evenings arc so crowded with I igayety, going here and ther, that they I scarcely know what home is like from I one ear tn another. Thev laugh at P the quiet domesticated girl, to whom I going out one evening during the fortnight, or having a few friends come to her home Is a treat It occurs oc-curs so seldom 1 shouldn't know what to do with imself If 1 had to i ipend an evening home," declares the girl who gads ! "I think I would soon wear out m Titol i t v !f 1 was to go out eci evening." even-ing." S3V8 the home nirl adding- "I couldn t If T wanted to I have so much to see to T try to take as much r. re as is possible off mother's I Shoulders. She Is not as young as Rflpue once was, you know I don't "jf. have (line to ?et lonesome T am tak. A lag lessons from mother in lielng a i good housekei per She thinks a trirl j ought to know everything about a home and how work should be at-i at-i tended to, oven if she is not called gj upon to do it in after years H just -?arms my heart to see how father loves my biscuits, ami mother enjoys . the tea which my bands brew for her." I "Housework Isn't the most congen- ial occupation to all elrls, bur if one " sets about with a IIlU heart and H the right spirit she will find the task j will bring her pleasure. The gadding j girl has a horror of housekeeping K The man who wedg her must look to the hotel to be his castle He seldom or never enjoys ihe peace and quiet . J, of home life with the good old fash-- fash-- ioned appetizing dinner which would ,j warm the cockles of his heart and 1 cause him to cease envying the man : who Is kins: over bis own domain, and does not have to live in one or two j rooms In a gilded hotel. I It Is probablv natural for a young ! girl with a treat deal of go and vim to mingle with bright, spirited com- J- panlons rind to . -m i . i . bei-.-li lm-; lm-; bulng all that she can of life's joys, jit Is too late to attempt to bend the sapllnt' when it Is full grown; this should have ht-u accomplished when Jit was a tulp Tf the girl js allowed .Jail the freedom she wishes at the ftime she Is entering her teens by the time she is 20 she has set the pace she wishes to go. If she has been allowed as a child to get out ot doing home duties they will seem Irksome to her when she is a young woman It is this kind of a wife who will bankrupt a man if he falls into the way of extravagance, too, to pleane her whims The home worker Is the home saer She is the modest iolot hidden away In the sheltered nook In life's highway high-way The girl who gads over much is the rosr which js always exhibited in the market place before the public , eye, wasting its sweetness on the desert air. It ls a trite and true old saying to train a child In the tray In which she should go. The girl who gads constantly loses all taste for home life In early youth, never to regain It The lure of theater, ball and hotel life Is stronger than that of the home fireside. i A young man asks: "Ought I to wed I a girl w hom my mother Bays is never at home, spends all of her time gadding? gad-ding? There's a little girl, a homebody, home-body, I love just about as well." I would rhlnk twicer about the home girl ere I gave her up If I were you. GIRLS ENROLL IN ATHLETIC CLUBS New York, Feb. 6 More than 17,-nnn 17,-nnn Rirls in the New York public schools are now enrolled in well organised or-ganised athletic clubs, according to a report of the girl's branch of the public pub-lic schools athletic league. A re- j markable increase in the interest girls are taking in the organized ath-letics ath-letics s noticed Last season the 121 schools in which athletic clubs have been formed, held over seventy lnter-club meets. General George W Wingate, who founded the league, declared at a meeting of the girl's branch last niclit that walking was a lost art in New York "If one has to walk six J blnck3 he thinks he's killed he said,1 "and many New Yorkers are getting so thev take a cab or street car to go twenty doors away" He urged the girls to form walking clubs remarkable polysyllabic speech was made h C. Ward CromptOH He Called New Yorkers 'battered human; corpuscles. Circulating feverishly to find an nneasv repose in the art' ei of aspbalt and iron which penetrate that Inhospitable structure. New-York." HEAT PRODUCING FOODS. "Will you kindly gie a list of heat producing foods, and state whether or not it is possible, by using a large proport f u of such urtieles of diet, to overcome in a measure, shivering with the cold when one is perfectly well. MRS V M " Foods that contain fats and sucar and the heavier starch combination? notably oatmeal eaten wltb milk or cream -are heat producers It is alleged al-leged as an excuse for the farmer's consumption of fat salt pork all winter win-ter long, that it engenders hc;it m the system, enabling him to endure life in the open ait as cooling lighter foods would not suffice to do. Allow one who has made long use of the expedient to advise deep breathiric as a blood warmer Inhale deep drafts of fresh air keeping the mouth shut, hold it while you can count ten leisurely and exhale as deliberately. de-liberately. Stnd straight while you do this, youi shoulders back and chin level. When you hnve taken In. ten breaths in this manner you should 1 in a glow from head to foot f'o through the form ten times a day and at the end of a month write to me how it succeeds, Yon will gain breadth of chest and activity of circulation, cir-culation, which last means warmth of blood. Fruits are cooling: sugars, fats and the heavier cereals heating THREE LIVE WELL ON 60 CENTS A DAY 'Editor Woman's Page. There ore three of us. my husband. in mother and myself While we have never been extravagant, we have not tried particularly to economize, but after reading several articles in your column. col-umn. I thought I would se what I could do wltb the table Supplies 1 have reduced our liviug expenses to about Gu cents a day and we live very well 1 know that many people will shudder like I did When I read about the man whose children ould not have butter until the) were 16, but just to show you that I am telling the truth here Is B table of meals For breakfast we have coffee, with cream, oranges, toast, and eggs or buckwheat cakes and syrup, or mlllc toa6t We do DOt are lor much in the morning 'M husband takes his lunch whi-h is hot soup or cocoa in a bottle, and buttered rackers or sandwiches, with fruit or a slice of cuke. Mother and I eat something made from left overs, with desserl and Jelly and tea. "Here are mv dinners for four days. bfONDA V Meat pie, browned potatoes Minced Carrots. Hot Gingerbread. Berry San. e TUESDAY Caramelized Sweet Potatoes Veal l hops Ho' Muffins. Etlce Pudding, With Meringue. WEDNESDAY Codfish Bulls Qern an Fried Potatoes Uettuce, w'iib Chopped Egg. Pumpkiu Pie. THURSDA i Steak. With Onion. Mashed Potatoes S'leed Oranges, Cake e have either tea coffee or cocoa, co-coa, whichever we happen to fn:i I pay 36 cento a dozen for freeh eggs and 40 cents for butter. A threo pound ro;'.it lasts ns throe days, the first as a roast, with brown gravy, the I second as crccpetTe3 and the third U a meat pie 1 buy all not'itoco and I vegetables In the fall und can rr.y own 'fruits But, as I always have, that hasn't much bejrrlng on the present system of economy. We make our own clothes and do all our own hou6e vvork- C. J. A." RECIPES Graham Muffins. One cup graham flour, one teaspoon salt, one cup white flour, one-fourth cup sugar one cup milk, one egg. three teaspoons baking powder, one tablespoon melted butter Mix and sift ingredients, add gradually the .-c well beaten with the milk, and the melted butter Bake in hot buttered I gem pans twenty-five minute-Vegetable minute-Vegetable Marrow Preserves Three pounds sugar, three pounds! vegetable marrow, on jar preserved ginger. Tut the marrow into small cubes, cover with sugar and ginger and allow It to stand tor two days then boil until the marrow is quite ! tender and changes color, about an Ihour and a half to two hours, or, con more. Do not add an water, as there will be sufticlent sirup without with-out The addition of one or two lemons lem-ons sliced very thin will give an agreeable ami indescribable flavor, but may be omitted if not liked, The American pumpkin may be .substituted .substitut-ed for vegetable marrow with satisfactory satis-factory results. "R. A. G" |