Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-11-17
Washington Standard
MRS. CALLOWAY'S METHODS.


Is 80 Uttered up as Calloway> with
object that have uutlivcd their useful
ness and should he relocated to the
a>h-hcap or the occasional bonfire be-
hind the house. 1t i, not that Gallo
way attaches any Importance to these
vermont objects, but that his wife can
not see gain in what she calls destroy
ing anything that may come in handy
for some purpose entirely foreign to
the use for which it was designed and
intended.
Even as she saves tea-leaves to
sprinkle broadcast upon the floor pre-
paratorv to sweeping, SO does she save
bits of all sorts of fabrics TO work up
into rag carpets. One of her rag car
pets is really curiosity, as it contains
pieces OF shirt-waists, hat-bands, win
dow-curtains and bathing-suits.
What in the world are you going
to do with these things?" asked Gallo
way the other morning when he tished
a handful of burlap from his bureau
drawer. 81 suppose you are going to
make these bacon-covers up into an
outing-skirt to wear at the sea-shore,
with shirt-waist made OF an old
overwhelming"
No, am not" replied Mrs. Gallo
way, Indignantly.
"Of course you are not, because
that would save me some money"
If you want to know just what l
am going to do with them," she snarled
back, al will tell you; am going to
sew them together, and stick them to
the library wall, and then paint them
Nile green, to save you the amount of
money it would cost to put the paper
on the library that it so sadly needs"
"Then what will you do with the
money thus saved?" asked Galloway.
Buy some things need in the way
of clothing"
"Don't you think it would he better
to so without those things, and buy
the wallpaper"
"No, indeed, do not!" she retort-
ed, with q vim that was truly Spartan.
Il need those things more than the
wall needs paper, and that is saying a
good deal, Mr.. Galloway"
but without new things you will
still radiate the loneliness of your gen.
tie spirit on all around you, and light
the household with the sunshine OF
your presence. Sometimes when I
come home at night, and you meet me
at the door, I imagine my bills are all
paid, and l actually hear the mort
cages Tapping their wings in flying of
the property. Wallpaper and fnery
are superhous in your case."
"You are just trying to tease me"
she said, with smile that was not
half sour, "and at the same time try.
ing TO save the price of that gown"
(Which gown"
"The gown I was going to buy with
the money saved on the wallpaper"
But I thought you were going to
put those bacon-covers on the walls?"
$50 am"
"Well, then, why don't you do it,"
az intend to-"
"And how much will you save to-
ward your gown?"
"About ten dollars"
"What, on one roomw
ayes, Oh one ROOM"
"That is a very easy way to save ter
dollars. If were you would do all
the rooms in the house in the same
way, and save on the lot-let me see
one hundred and sixty dollars-and
buy yourself three or four gowns just
for variety"
"You are teasing me again, John
Hezekiah Galloway, and all because
am trying to spin things out and keep
you out of the poorhouse. I never
throw away anything"
Except money" said Galloway.
"And how do do it," she asked, in
fearful establishment.
"Why, by trying to save. Do you
remember last winter when I brought
home turkey on Wednesday to eat
on Thursday, and in order to save
money you fed us on salt Goldfish and
canned salmon for three days to pull
that turkey through for our Sunday
dinner, and while we were Furnishing
our flesh with fish that turkey spoiled
and bad to be thrown out? It's a
wonder to me that you didn't throw it
in with the scraps to be made into
soap. I tell you, it's awful the way l
am chaffed Oh the train about the
economy you attempt by trying to
make one thing serve the purpose of
another, and loading the house with
all sorts of worthless trash. Do you
remember the time you tried to make
me a writing desk of the dog-house
just after the dog was poisoned? Do
you remember how you thought you
could make hole on the side for me
to stick my knees through while writ
ing on the roof? And do you remem.
Der how every one laughed, and said
that you were without a sense of hui
NOR"
az wish you would just keep still