The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-30

ing manner. The first week the gas
company will give a S25 range to the
woman who writes the best 200-word
essay on the advantages Of gas for
cooking, and The Herald will give a
similar range for the best poem on the
same subject.
This prize competition is open to any
woman in the city who wishes to par
ucipate, ana all papers OF poems should
be addressed and mailed TO The Herald
Cooking School, Salt Lake City, Utah,
before Friday night, June 4. Judges
viii be appointed by The Herald man
agement, and the gas company will an
nOunce their decision in the following
Sunday Herald.
The second weeks prizes will be a
SIS gas range given away by The Her
aid as a prize Tor the best two loayes
OF bread exhibited by any woman III
the city, baked III any range the Oper-
atOr wishes to use and with any recipe.
Each woman entering this contest
should accompany her exhibit with her
name and address, the recipe used and
details of the baking. All exhibits
should be finished by Thursday June
10, and left at the Office of the Utah
Gas d Coke company, where the whole
exhibit viii be shown TO the public. A
So range will be given at the same
time for the best cake exhibited under
the same conditions and at the same
time as the bread baking contest. These
cakes should not be too elaborate, as
the judging will rest largely on merit OF
work done, the baking and the simplici-
ty OF the recipe. This baking contest
will be open TO every woman in the
city, and the judges viii be headed by
Miss Anna Virginia Miller, the lecturer.
One other judge viii be appointed By
The Herald and one by the gas COM
pany. The announcement of winners
will be made in The Herald Sunday
morning, June -.
The prizes for the third week viii be
a SIS gas range, or $25 to be applied on
the purchase Of any gas appliance. for
the nearest guess TO the actual value I'm
dollars and cents OF the amount OF gas
used for cooking during the entire Sc
ries Of demonstrations. This estimat-
ing contest Will be carried on and COM
pleted during the first weeks lectures,
and all guesses mailed to The Herald
Cooking School or deposited in the
question box at the hall by Tuesday,
June l.. Each guess must be plainly
written I'm dollars and cents, signed by
the woman making the guess, and the
street and number given in every case
The exact amount of gas cannot be de-
termined until after the close Of the last
lecture, and the winner Of the prize Will
be announced in The Sunday Herald Of
June 20. The gas meter used viii be
read by one of the gas cOmpany's ex-
perts just before the beginning Of the
first lecture and viii be locked each
night after the demonstration is finished
so that the final reading viii show the
exact amount of gas which is consumed
drrwfTncr fhn of twelve a~f Hf
do the entire amount of cooking and
baking.
A question box will be maintained at
the school and conducted by Miss Mil
Ter. Any questions pertaining TO cook
cry, recipes, care Of ranges, etc, may
be deposited in this question box, each
one, however, should be signed by the
inquirer. The questions and answers as
compiled by Miss Miller win be pub
lished each day in The Herald under the
Cooking School department.
In addition TO these, The Herald will
give a prize of s. each day for the best
recipe submitted in that days contest,
taking a different subject each day, as
bread one day, soup another, salad an
other, etc. These recipes viii be judged,
too, by competent committees and pub
lished. There viii also be prizes OF gas
heated hatiTons. one to be given with
each SIX months subscription to The
Herald. This kind Of iron is new here,
having only recently been introduced. It
is similar in construction to the modern
electric iron, and uses just One-ffteenth
as much fuel Tt is heated by TIE sim
plest device Of a pipe connecting with
the range, and is most convenient. The
iron sells ordinarily at 81
The program Of demonstrations for
the first week is submitted below. For
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