The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1901-07-19
ECONOMICAL WOMEN.
Some of the Things Upon Which They
Retrench.

Some of the Things Upon Which They
Retreuch.
Economy with most women means
saving just as much money as they
can in one direction In order to spend
1t in another. A languid individual In
one of the shops on Saturday was an
example of this sort of thrlftiness.
IL am going to be very economical
in my wardrobe this summer" she said
to a companion. Just now. for in
stance, | am buying nothing but 9A
and Sla cent lawns. Then when | get
about $50 together l am going to put
it all In a chiffon boa. dote on chif-
fon bOas. don't your"
For its own part, this page has never
been an advocate Of economy. 1t once
knew a mistaken feminine who de-
MED herself luxurles and stinted her
self In necessities all her life and put
the money she saved thus in stock
ing so that a tombstone might be
erected over her when she died. But
alas! she expired without making a
will, and the next Of kin, when the
stocking was found, promptly spent its
contents for pony phaeton and a me-
chanical piano and was happy ever
after.
This horrible example haunts the
woman's page when 1t is tempt
ed to buy $1.50 gloves instead Of the 81
kind and it therefore purchases the
higher-priced handwear in order that
none of its survivors may have Its earn
ings to squander in riotous living and
mechanical pianos.
Almost every housekeeper has, how
ever some pet article upon which she
saves money when she can. This pages
Aunt Jane, about whom a good deal
has been set down here at one time and
another, retrenches on beef. To pay
20 or 25 cents a pound for the tender
loin is, she declares, simply monstrous
and part of conspiracy between the
butchers and the shopkeepers to Inn
poverish worthy people. She there
fore purchases those odds-and-end cor
ners of the animal which seem to have
no name and hears unmoved the re-
marks her progeny make about having
their teeth sharpened before they go
on with the meal.
Another elderly and very estimable
woman economies by not giving any.
thing to the church collection. Up she
gets before the plate reaches her and
out of the edifice she stalks, upborne
by the consciousness-at least she says
she is-that 1t Is better to dispense
ones charity from ones own back gate
than to put it higgledy -piggledy with
other peoples dimes and quarters and
never be sure that 1t does any good
at all.
This page bushes to mention 1t, but
1t really does know people whose CHIEF
source of retrenchment is In laundry
bills. Like the German housewife, they
only have their washing done every sl1
months or so. 1t is not on record thai
the money thus saved goes to pay thu
bills of the family physician, though i
would be poetic justice if this were so
There are dozens of women wht
economic on newspapers, magazines
and books. 1t was even said of fam
lily of maiden ladies once that they
hadn't had scrap of reading matte
In their house for thirty years tha
wasn't borrowed, except advertise
ments for soap and baking powder
The saving woman might be said t,
be the mother of the rummage sale. l
is she who boards all the cord tha
comes around parcels and all the pape
bags and ali the scraps of dress good
purposely. apparently to throw ava.
when house cleaning time comes.-Bal
timOre News.
Otherwise with the Poor.
"T feel sorry for the rich
"why?"
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