The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 22, 1917, Page 10

i, Pt Big Cash Prize Contest for Farm Women . —What Does the League Mean to Your ) HAT does the League mean to you? This question is addressed directly to farm women. The Leader has received so many letters from women in different parts of the United States, telling of the good work the League is doing, and wishing it success, that we are going to start a contest and give cash prizes to the women who can give the best answers to the above question. We know that women are deeply interested in the wel- fare of this great farmers’ organization, How could they help but be, when it already contains more than 140,000 of their husbands, sons and brothers? But the League would be a failure if it accomplished nothing for the wives, mothers and daughters. It is a farm woman’s movement as fully as a farmers’ movement. With every gain it makes in legislation, in putting honest, efficient officials in power, it accomplishes something for the home and human welfare. That is its fundamental aim. : To answer the above question, you must understand League proposes to do—its purposes and its methods. Then you can judge of what it means to you. The League proposes that the people of the various states establish state owned crop marketing facilities—state owned flour mills, packing plants, cold storages, warehouses, state owned rural credit banks operat- ed at cost, exemption of farm improvements from taxation and state crop insur- ance. These are the things that the members in more than a dozen states where the League is being organized, intend to accomplish. What will it mean to the women? SOME THINGS TO BE KEPT IN MIND If you are a woman in a League member's household, you know how the League proposes to accomplish this program. It means to nominate and elect officials who will go through with it; it means using the power and authority of the state to do the things that individuals can not do so well. There must be a continued educational campaign, organizers, meetings, argument and pur- suasion, Somewhere along this line, perhaps at many points, women will come in contact with this program. Think of it from any standpoint you choose—and that need not be at all the standpoint of your “men folks”—and then frame an answer to the question, “What does. the League mean to you?” Scan the whole Alice Gets An Answer clearly what the field of what the Nonpartisan league aims to do, take into consideration any circumstances you choose, and then write us a brief, straight-from-the-shoulder letter of not more than 500 words. For the best answer the Leader will pay a cash prize of $10. For the second best, $7.50. For the third, $5. For the fourth, $3. In addition to this the Leader will pay $1 each for all other letters submitted in the contest which it uses. Judging by past contests, we believe there will be a good many fine letters that will not come within the four prize places men- tioned. These $1 letters will all receive honorable mention, and if they are as good as we anticipate, readers will be seeing them in the Leader many weeks after the contest is over. SOME CONDITIONS OF THE CONTEST This contest is open to all farm women. They need not be members of the League or have any relatives who are members, All that is necessary is for the contestant to frame an answer to that question. No contestant will be allowed to write more than one letter, We can not undertake to return any let- ters or to correspond about the contest. Be sure not to makg your letter over 500 words in length.. Better ones can be written in fewer words. The shortest may get the biggest prize. The letters rmaust be plainly written on one side only of the paper. We can not turn over a single sheet for something written on the other side, The contest opens in this issue of the Leader and all letters must be in the Leader office by Thursday, December 13. They will then be carefully read and the prizes sent as Christmas presents. The letters will be published from week to week from then on. The judges will be the woman’s page editor and the entire Leader staff. ‘Here is a splendid chance to win some cash prizes and also win renown in a score of states where the Leader is eagerly awaited every week and read in over 140,000 families. Better get started at once. Address all letters to Woman'’s Page Editor, Nonpartisan Leader, Fargo, N. D. Handy Potato 9 there are so many other girls like me, Here is a bona fide answer to even now. School teaching salaries. one of Alice’s 1letters.. Readers are no more than a living wage and will recall that -Alice, who is a city the girl who earns her own living must woman, has been wriling to her be sure of her job. There are a few sister who lives in the country. She venturesome ones among us, but the bas touched upon numerous ques- rank and file must look ahead into lions of interest to women, among the future. We graduate from Normal lhem the problem of young women or University and take the job that our tcHool teachers who wish to im- school or a private teachers’ agency prove themselves for their profes- can provide for us; we don’'t know how tion, but who are denied leaves of else to do it. Often I have wished \bsence for study in other states. that some public teachers’ employment Fhese same teachers are given bureau might be started and I see how eaves of absence to visit foreign your exchange teachers’ law might set tountries and their positions are the machinery moving. teld for them but no such right to Why couldn't the school boards and risit. other states. Alice in a re- the teachers’ organizations set up a tent letter asked why should not clearing house committee to handle all Lhe’ dlffexjer}t states;itradesteachs exchange and employment questions in 'ws” by giving leaves of absence to | pq giate, with an office in the state ‘hem to permit them to broaden department of education? Why could lhelx‘. expfsmence by living and there not be central teachers’ employ- leaching in .ot‘her paf‘ts of the ment clearing houses with offices in country. This is the first answer Chicago, San Francisco, St. Paul, New - to that question, and it comes from Orleans, and other big centers, and | a real young woman school teacher. with headquarters in Washington? It —_.__.___® Dear Alice: How I would like to have the oppor- tunity to talk to you. Your letters make me think of so many things you and I seem to have in common that I know we will meet and work together to make our dreams come true—maybe at some Nonpartisan league women’s convention—who knows? Your letter on the exchange teacher scheme provided for by law in Colo- rado and Wisconsin interested me much. You see before I was married I was one of those school teachers who never got to see Carcasson. I never did manage to save enough for a year away from home; there was a younger sister to send to school and I just stay- ed on teaching in the home town where I had grown up. But there was another factor I want to emphasize. I didn’t know what outside oppor- tunities there were and I didn’t know how to find out. Don’t smile at ‘me, might even be organized and managed by the U. S. Bureau of Education—we could have central bureaus of informa- tion and employment. Can’t you see the little snowball that has been started in Colorado and Wisconsin roll on and on until it travels with its own momentum? All that is looking into the future. Sometime I hope to have a talk with you about our present school prob- lems. But I did want you to know how good it is to find a friend with a com- mon viewpoint in a common meeting place, the Nonpartisan Leader. Sin- cerely yours, MARY. Some men love their country so well that they like to get all the ten dollar bills they can just to look at the pictures of the statesmen printed thereon. They feel the same toward the Goddess of Liber- ty on the American coins. WHERE YOU CAN SAVE First cross off soda fountain and ice-cream treats. Reduce candy consumption to an after-dinner bonbon. Omit icing from cakes and fancy breads. Use fruit and nuts, candied honey or maple sugar for cake fillings. Sweeten fruit drinks with honey or corn sirup. If you must sweeten breakfast cereals, try figs, dates, raisins, sirup or a light sprinkling of maple sugar. Use honey, corn sirup, dark sirup or maple sirup with hot cakes and in bread and muffins. Try cakes that call for honey or sirup instead of sugar. Tide over the sugar shortage by using NOW your jellies, jams, pre- serves, and fruits canned with sugar. Replace white sugar candies with sirup candies, or sweets made from figs, dates, and raisins combined with nuts. For dessert serve a fruit salad or fruit omelet; cream cheese with honey or fine preserves; fruit desserts with honey or just enough white sugar to bring out the fruit flavor. Utensils Many convenient utensils have been invented for expediting the work of preparing potatoes. A new masher or ricer is attached to the edge of the table and is worked on the principle of the lever. Thus it saves the cook’s “elbow grease.” A cup shaped dish has a cutter top, upon which a whole potato may be - pressed and sliced into even strips for French fry, Julienne potatoes and gar- nishes. e A screw cutter which can be fasten- ed to the wall, converts a potato into a long ribbon which has a decorative value as a garnish, or a practical value if the potatoes are to be dried. Some Sugar Saving Desserts There is a temporary shortage of sugar, due to the fact that supplies have been hoarded by the manufactur- ers who were waiting for war prices to be fixed, and to.the fact that the American beet sugar crop has not come on the market. This has cut millions of American homes short of sugar for the present, although it is believed that with the manufacture of this year's crop, this will be over within eight or 10 weeks. Here are some recipes -proposed to help satisfy the American sweet tooth, and they are said to have been suc- cessfully used by cooks and house- wives. Perhaps you can find some- thing here good enough to keep as a regular household recipe even after sugar is again obtainable, Pumpkin Pudding— 2 cups stewed pumpkin % cup brown sugar 3 cup honey or maple sirup 2 eggs 1 tablespoon flour 1 teaspoon cinnamon 3% teaspoon nutmeg 1-8 teaspoon cloves 1-8 teaspoon ginger 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 pinch of salt 2 cups milk Mix all ingredients greased pudding dish. cold. - 2 Indian: Pudding— 6 cups milk 1-3 cup cornmeal and bake. in Serve hot or PAGE TEN % cup honey 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon ginger Cook milk and meal in double boiler 20 minutes. Add honey, salt, and ginger. 'Pour into buttered pudding dish and bake two hours slowly. Serve with tart jelly or preserves. Cheese Custard— 1% cups cottage cheese 3% cup maple sirup or honey 2 tablespoons milk 1 teaspoon melted fat - Press the cheese through a colan- der; beat the eggs until light; add them with all the other ingredients to the cheese; mix until smooth. Place in a baking dish and bake in a. moder- ate oven about 30 minutes, Peach Souffle— - 1 quart canned peaches 3% cup honey or sirup -~ 3 eges Drain and mash through colander one quart of canned peaches, Add one-half cup of honey or sirup and well beaten yolks. Beat thoroughly, then beat whites stiff and fold care- fully into the peach mixture, Turn the whole into a greased baking dish and bake in a quick oven six minutes. Apples and Dates— Steam until tender in a covered pan one and one-half quarts of sliced ap- ples, with one-half cup of water, and the grated peel of one lemon. Add one-half cup of chopped dates. Sim- mer the fruits tagether for six minutes. Serve cold. : e T e -