The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-01-09
ECONOMICAL WOMEN.
Some of the Things Upon Which They
Retrench.


Retrench.
Economy with most women means
saving just as much money as they
can in one direction In order to spend
it in another. A languid individual in
one of the shops on Saturday was an
example of this sort of thriftiness.
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 or
and So cent lawns. Then when | get
about S35 together | am going TO put
1t 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 Injuries and stinted her
self In necessities all her life and put
the money she saved thus In a stock
Ing so that a tombstone might be
erected over her when she died. But.
alasl 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.
woman's page when 1t Is tempt
ed to buy Sl.50 gloves instead of the 81
kind. and 1t therefore purchases the
higher-priced handwear In order that
none of its survivors may have It's 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 psy
20 or % cents pound for the tender
/ loin is, she declares, simply monstrous
and part of conspiracy between the
/ butchers and the shopkeepers to I'M
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 least she says
she is--that 1t Is better to dispense
ones charity from ones own back gate
than to put 1t higgledy-piggledy with
other peoples dimes and quarters and
never be sure that 1t does any good
at all.
This page bushes to mention t. 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 six
months or so. II Is not on record that
the money thus saved goes to pay the
bills Of the family physician. though It
would be poetic justice If this were so.
There are dozens Of women who
economic on newspapers, magazines
and books. 1t was even said of n fam.
lily of maiden ladies once that they
hadn't had a scrap of reading matter
in their house for thirty years that
wasn't borrowed except advertise
ments for soap and baking powder.
The Swing woman might be said to
be the mother OF the rummage sale. II
is she who boards all the cord that
comes around parcels and all the paper
bags and all the scraps OF dress goods
pnrposely, apparently to throw away
when house cleaning time comes.-Bai.
timore News.