The Arizona sentinel., 1886-05-29
HOW TO ECONOMIZE.
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''Why is it so difficult to economizeP'
 The wrinkles on Mrs. Lorton's brow were very deep, and it was with an air of weariness amounting almost to de- spair that she laid down the pencil wherewith she had been checking off a series of accounts.
 Aunt Abby lifted her eyes from the stocking which she had been alarming with such exquisite neatness, and gazed sympathetically at her distressed friend.
 '1 am afraid you don't quite know how"
 Mrs. Lorton looked astonished, and we girls, who were spending the holi days with our friend, wondered also what the little lady could possibly mean.
 Don't know how! Political econ- omy, l am willing to admit, is most difficult science; but I did not fancy that domestic economy involved any thing deeper than simply self-denial and the avoidance of unnecessary expendi- ture."
 Aunt Abby smiled. ''It may seem that way in the beginning; but really doubt if there is any part of our daily living that requires more tact, judgment and experience than this same business of economizing successfully"
 ''The results of my last years work incline me to suspect something of the same kind" sighed Mrs. Lorton. 'I clearly must have made great many mistakes somewhere; but just where I am at loss to discover |! certainly have tried very hard, and have done without great many things I used to think were quite necessary to the con- fort and happiness of the household; yet here the figures are, and really the sum total is very little less than it was year ago, when our income was so much larger"
 Mrs. Lorton looked thoroughly dis discouraged. We, who admired her so much and took such pleasure in the inti- mate friendship to which she had admit ted us, sympathized with her most thor oughly. She evidently saw how we felt from the expression ot our faces, for she turned to us laughingly and said:
 ''You young ladies must be very much interested in my financial troubles. It is too bad to entertain you with my laments over these unruly ends that seem to require such an undue amount of stretching in order to meet"
 We hastened to reply that any thing which concerned her could not fail to interest us, when Aunt Abby Ca relative, 1t should have been explained, of Mrs. Lorton's husband, a gentle little lady whose life had been spent in distant city riveted our attention at once by saying: s-
 '.I was just about the age of these young ladies when I first made ac- quaintance with what I am now in clined to call the science of domestic economy, though, like you, when first found myself under the necessity of mastering 1t, thought there was little in it, save doing without many things I was accustomed to, and bearing the dis comfort as heroically as possible. :"
 Well" smiled Mrs Lorton, "what are the great underlying principles (isn't that the phrase?), also the oper- ative processes whereby we are to ar rive at practical results-uamelv, the bringing of our expenses within my husbands means?"
 Well" echoed Aunt Abby, "one of the leading principles is the abandon ment of that velvet cloak I saw you working at SO industriously this morn ing, and all garments of similar char acter. :"
 What can you mean? Why, have worn that cloak two winters, and now l have put new sleeves in it, and it is quite as good as new. Surely nothing could be more economical than that. Why, l take immense credit to myself for that performance"
 Precisely. It would have been very extravagant to give or throw the cloak away. You would have blamed your self greatly, would you not?'
 ''Of course I should"
 Well, let us emulate the famous COW and consider The cloak is of Lyons velvet; the new sleeves required yard of the same material, costing ten dol lars The cloak now is quite as good as new but, new or old, it can only be worn in fair weather There must be cheaper one to save it. Again, this velvet cloak requires handsome dress under it, and a cheap bonnet would be quite incompatible with it. You re- quire, therefore, to complete the oper- atiye process resulting from the under lying principle of this velvet cloak, the ofwhich was such an econom- ical measure, an expenditure of any where from fifty to one hundred dollars to produce the harmony in your toilet which your cultivated taste demands, | and perhaps fifty dollars more for an- other suit in which to go out on cloudy days, to wear shopping, and for all the ordinary, commonplace business of life. Would it not, then, have been much more economical to let the velvet cloak go, and purchase substantial cloth one, trimmed with fur, we will say, so that itshall be handsome enough for visit |