Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-08-30
Aunt Betsy's Opinions.
Western Plowman.
ECONOMY.

ECONOM1.
Nobody bleeves in economy more'n
| do, but what some folks call by that
name seems to me to be real wasteful.
ness. Now there's my cousin Jane.
She's allus talkin' bout bein' savin',
an l really bleeve she thinks she is,
but she amt | know it, an so does
everybody else that watches her way
o dom things. She'll go to work,
bakin'day, and look her receipt book
over, and when she finds cake that
suits her, she'll say to Maggie-that's
the girl that helps her about the cook.
in'-"I guess we'll try this one, seems
eff it ought to be good. But don't put
in so much sugar, an leave out part o
the butter, an an egg, and use SAHARA
tus Std O bakin' powder" Instid O.
maxim a cake after the receipt, she
makes somethin' so different that it
ein't no more like it would have been
if she'd gone by the receipt, than pan
cake is like gingerbread. An her savin'
that comes O skimpin', jest spiles the
thing, fer it amt generally fit to eat,
an her folks won't eat it, an it dries
up an has to be fed to the pigs. So,
instid o savin', she really wastes a good
deal. If she'd go by the receipt, an
make somethin' good, it wouldn't be
wasted, for her folks would eat it up.
If you cook anythin' it pays to cook it
well. Poor cake an pie amt good
economy. It's THROWN away good ma
terial. Make thing good when you
make it, if you don't make. 1T very
often. But never pretend to make
anything after a receipt an skimp on
anything you put into it, an then won
der why you amt got something nice.
Ta'n't the fault o the receipt. Folks'll
eat good vittles every time, but they
won't take to poor ones, an what's
throw'd away of poor ones wastes more'n
it would have cost to make 'em good in
the first place. Skimpin' on things
sp'iles 'em, an though you may call
your skimpin' bein' savin', it's real
wastefulness an nothin' else. James
just the same with her maxim clothes
for the children. She'll cut the boys
trousers legs small to save cloth, an
the fust time she washes 'em they'll
shrink so the boys can't hardly get into
'em. Eff they go to bend, pop goes
the trowsers somewhere, an she's got
to spend time an use new cloth patchin
'em, an the trowsers won't last so long,
an cost more in the end than
they would if she'd a made 'em
as they ought to be-more cloth
an more time an work. When she
buys cloth she allus gets the cheap
kind-she wants to save somethin' on
the price. But, land sakes she allus
loses, fer if you get awful cheap price;
you get quality in proportion, as a gen
eral thing, an it don't pay to make VI
poor goods. Get somethin' good, an
when its made up you've got a gar.
ment that'll wear an do some service
but cheap stuff will allus be given out,
an won't last half so long, an you have
to get new ones, so't cost you more, {
good deal, in the end, than good stuff
would. For the other you may have
to pay little more, but that little ex
ira saves you good deal o time an
work, an to save time an work is thu
best kind o economy for a woman tt
practice.
These prudent folks who go in fol
savin' the way Jane does, don't think
the economy idea all out. They &c
started on it, an stop at the beginnin
oft. Because this thing cost a few
cents less than that one amt no reason
why it's economy to buy it. I've toun(
that out for myself. 1t amt so mucl
the amount of money you spend asst il
how you spend it, that makes goo(
management. One o the most savin
women | ever knew allus makes it ;
pint to buy the best of everything
She said 1t was the cheapest in the end
an bleeve from my own experienc,
that she was right,
AUNT BETSY.