Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-12-17

lead triumph up to the present. and ore
still on that same committed.
We used to be lectured on the impor-
lance of economy, six days in the week
| Sundays we rested-until, in our childish
desperation, we have many times wandered
off back of the dcuble-log barn and sat
down in it's friendly shadow to mediate
concerning this behemoth. We used to
wonder what sort of an animal, or machine,
this everlasting ECONOMY" was that babe
fair to shake Gods good feotstool, from
center to circumference, with its very inn
portance; and we have counted off on cur
| fingers the letters it took to spell it, and to
our infinite disgust found them a scrip
| tural seven.
Sometimes, when this monster held us
BY the nape of the neck little too savagely,
VIC resolved that by the time We grew to be
| a woman. if the many sided being hadn't
! collapsed, blcwed itself out, or died of old
| age, we'd break its COMPOUNDED neck, or
die trying.
Well, we've CROPPED along in this elliptical
eclipse of inclination until the abead O.
the house" calls US "the old woman" aud
the rising generation thinks It'll knows cheap
| morn mother does" and We Invent broken
its tough old neck yet, although we've hit
it clip or two. which makes it kind of shy
of our domicil.
Sometimes we feel real charitable, and
say, we'll perhaps we are too hasty in judg-
ment-prejudiced maybe-and with this
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mune with some one of these breezy news
paper heralds; but it's no go; and We fall
to pitying the unfortunate portion of the
English language, which has been drafted
into serving the fellow who so heroically
tried to blow his brains out, apd would have
succeeded had he had any. One gives us
doublc-header on "hints about economy"
and then forsets he's limiting" and bolts
at once from the ring and thunders out
what you p,mst do with your servants, your
grocers, your household, your husband,
your children, and even tackles the poor
little hot-weather appetite, futtcring i'll
your own weary makeup, to make both
ends meet; and batter out twenty FIVE cents
into big round dollar, of free and indie
pendent nation. Another gets up with his
firstly. secondly, ETC., how you may make
this garment, or mend that one, or re-
arrange third to save, to economic, when
any one-eyed stupid could see it required
more time to accomplish it than would be
needed to earn entirely new articles.
In following this last representative of
economy we speak from experience.
But the worst sell of all the unsared
savers and economical blatherskites, can
think of now is the hydra headed mounte-
bank who hcurishes his faber in the cook
ing business, and yeowls over the pastry
department until the last batch of cookies
made to order" jumps out of the oven, and
puts him to shame. The economical
dishes, ways of making bread, astonish-
| ingly cheap and economical cakes, pics,
stocks. and ragouts his fertile hashery,
denominated brains, gets of, is simply in
credible. The amount of ingredients
wasted in trying to follow his mad flights
is only out-weighed by the loss of time,
patience. strength. and the dsheartening
disappointment couched in the failure. If
you press the racket home and let them
know you failed in the several experiments.
back comes the old white washed, hypo-
critical boot, "you did not follow directions,
tbs plain. This being the last extremity,
they fly to it as naturally as wild creature
at bay-only it, unhappilY, isn't as fatal to
the economist as 10 the animal.
Itake a magazine in the columns of which,
each issue, is to be found a chapter on
economy-there are less than million of
just such chapters somersetting all over
christendom-in which the contributor of
triumphai methods Of saving sets forth,
especially to ladies, athousand gold-plated
suggestions on economy.
Iwaltzed to the music of said column
just long enough to satisfy myself that he,
she, or it, didn't have 1.-THE of practical
experience; then 1 took my seat and let
the next simpleton have the floor.
Happening to be in the city one day
where this illustrious model of thrift re-
sided, 1 took sudden notion to call on
him. did so want to see his wisdom cat
home" as the fellow in who gets up the
column on 'economy'?" asked.
ooh! yes. ma'am," was the answer of a
little page lettering on the front steps, in
princely suit of blue and gold; and with
flourish of the nature of "Table Round, +"
he led the way down an elegant hall.
Everything about the place betokened
economy in the lowest degree; even the
fight of stairs over which the sunlight
polka'd in rose-hued rapture through the
stained glass. even the lovely soft carpet
ing on the steps would stir the soul of the
most Indifferent economist. Such a
browning effort of bare necessity must
dazzle the eyes of even the old curmudgeon,
who religiously chews his quid second
time to save expense in tobacco, I thought
Then his study, the economists study,
you know; we'll. it was such plain sample
Of inexpensive mustness, with its plush
carpet, IFS fine pictures, its exquisite pieces
of statuary in the little cosy inches near
the creamy lace window draperies, and its
| general air of cheap dreamy elegance.
Imagine to yourself, dear reader, little
haven of ease and sweetness, leaving out
the smell of cigars and the decanter, saw