The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-05-28
HOW TO ECONOMIZE.

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treesEr RE very deep, and it was with an air
len inEweariness amounting almost to de-
com hir that she laid down the pencil
Fhink herewith she had been checking off a
kies of accounts.
andEAunt Abby lifted her eyes from the |
bu tobcking which she had been darning |
|doubt[t such exquisite neatness, and gazed
you alphabetically at her distressed friend.
Id 1t III am afraid you don't quite know
con kw.''
lie Mrs Lorton looked astonished, and
S arch girls. who were spending the holi
+. IEys with our friend, wondered also
n. bat the little lady could possibly mean.
tn meE"Don't know howl Political econ
q. by, am willing to admit, is a most
stay nhicult science; but 1 did not fancy
ab lat domestic economy involved any
are ing deeper than simply self-denial and
ron lie avoidance of unnecessary expendi-
tounuEre.n
Father aunt Abhv smiled. ..It NAV seem
you, at wav in fhe beoinnipg: but really
now, hnht If there is any nart of our daily
Dao wing that requires more tact, Judgment
Igolnghd experience than this same business
mem economizing successfully
Z dog "The results of my last years work
well. $cline me to suspect something OF the
pom me kind, sighed Mrs. Lorton. "I
me eearly must have made a great many
with kistakes somewhere; but just where !
fether En at q loss to discover l certainly
| hope ave tried very hard, and have done
le. ithont great many things used to
and link were quite necessary to the COM
tal OF brt and happiness of the household;
! the kt here the figures are, and really the
will Inn total is very little less than it was a
them ear ago, when our income was SO much
with krger.n
ave a Mrs. Eorton looked thoroughly dis
some discouraged. We, who admired her so
! Car huch and took such pleasure in the init
me nate friendship to which she had admit
kd us. sympathized with her most thor
at he Eughly. She evidently saw how we felt
con- rom the expression OF our faces, for
fishes he turned to us laughingly and said:
the ..You young. ladies must be very
|lahus nuch interested in my financial troubles
Bt the % is too bad to entertain you with my
brd; aments over these unruly ends thai
have Gem to require such an undue amount
When f stretching in order to meet"
sur We hastened to reply that any thing
your Which concerned her, could not fail Il
e you interest us, when Aunt Abby Ga relative
should have been explained, of Mrs
lows: 4orton's husband, gentle little lad,
H. ! whose life had been spent in distan
my $ty) riveted our attention at once b.
Gen taying:
! one 'I was just about the age of thes
|thers Foung ladies when | first made ac
f up buaintance with what I am now in
lease. elined to call the science of dOmesti
like economy, though, like you, when frs
you Found myself under the necessity c
and mastering it, thought there was littl
your n it, save doing without many things
|other was accustomed to, and bearing the dis
was eomfort as heroically as possible"
Pbody "Well' smiled Mrs. Lorton, "wha
you pre- the great underlying principle
'ere snt that the phraseP), also the opel
We Rtive processes whereby we are to al
hope rive at practical results-namely, til
Will bringing of our expenses within m
with busband's meansp''
Fran .sWell,'' echoed Aunt Abby, ssone
the leading principles is the abandon
Iment of that velvet cloak / saw yo
working at so industriously this morl
fng, and all garments of similar cha
ed to Eacter."
eWhat can you meanp Why, ha,
waste have put new sleeves in it, and it
birds u.yI u1J 20 soou .'os',.s 90 oa,;o.1 ~
piras Why, take immense credit to myst
prove Ifor that performance
| our Precisely 1t would have been We
J be- Eextravagant to give or throw the clo'
+ainst AWAY. You would have blamed you
re- self greatly, would you notp"
share "Of course should"
lions swell, let us emulate the famous &C
times land consider The cloak is of Lyo
ms in uvelvet; the new sleeves required a va
iliza- Iof the same material, costing ten d.
Cape lars The cloak now is quite as go
for las new;' but, new or old, it can only
one nworn in fair weather. There must bt
e see ucheaper one to save it. Again, Il
retty Evelvet cloak requires handsome dr.
made uunder it, and cheap bonnet would
Btate- Nquite incompatible with it. You
Srally Hquire, therefore. to complete the op
J ten ative process resulting from the und
Hand, Lying principle of this velvet cloak,
! 9th. repairing ofwhich was such an econo
this ical measure, an expenditure of al
also where from fifty to one hundred doll
nd OF to produce the harmony in your tol
|lown which your cultivated taste deman
craze and perhaps fifty dollars more for
+ the other suit in which to 60 out on clor
hbine days, to wear shopping, and for all
anet. ordinary. commonplace business Of
B I'D. Would it not, then, have been mi
more economical to let the velvet ok
go, apd purchase substantial cloth o
| In "A 1 trimmed with fur. we will say, 80