The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-22
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 There is a proportion of values to be observed or economy becomes extrava- gance. Suppose you labor to rip of the trimming which is carefully stitched on, giving by good workmanship and good style the tone to partly worn dress. As it is the dress will be Godsend to the woman who works for you, who is so busy getting things for her chill dren that ske never has time or money to get anything for herself. She has admired it, for she appreciates the good style of it as much as you do. But 1t would be useless with put the trimming and she wouldn't have time to replace it..
 Take it off to save buying something new for the dress you are making over and it is a small economy, but you have spent a large amount of time and you have deprived the other of great good. It is not the divine economy to take the first at the expense of the other two.
 The divine economy is the wider kind by which the home economist not only does the best for herself and her fam fly, but for herself and her family and for the, particular set of retainers which seem to be thrust upon her by Provi- dence This plan of economy does not permit the saving of small thing for ourselves at a big cost to somebody else.
 In what seems extravaganza there is divine law of compensation, for at the same time it does not permit her who learns it to give hours of application to making something which has no real value in her dress scheme. Before sit- ting down to some wonderful feat of need1ework she considers it's value in relation to her time and what the same time would bring if employed in adding directly to her income.
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 Safe rule to apply to the servant girl who is your maid of all work is not to ask her to do anything that you wouldn't do yourself. A woman told the other day of having a Danish maid who embroidered monograms in her ta- blecloths, and who took upon herself the whole task of keeping the table linen mended and in order. It was not only done beautifully but she took the point of view that as her employer paid for her time and she had plenty of leis- ure, 1t should not be called extra ser vice. The kind of a mistress who could keep such servant after having once
 had the good luck to discover her turn ed out to have little ways of her own
 in household management She took upon herselt that part or the work l which wasn't included in the girls l regular duties" The house lay out oi the water district and there was a High, force pump that had to be worked once
 a day. The mistress did this herself
 much to the maids surprise. Why, il Isn't anything to do," she explained Its the best motion in the world fo, | al exercise" It was the same with the furnace. The first cold day she re. marked that she was going to build z | fire. 70. that is terrible" said the maid not to have man to attend to tn. | furnace" T don't mind it at all-it', l no more than making a fire in tho | grate. answered this woman, who stoot 1 pat by making the fire-without assist.
 ance. The result was that the maiG was interested enough to watch opera.
 tions, and has since taken the worl upon herself
 | What would you have done if sh,
 hadn't fallen in and done these things?' was asked.
 | T would either have kept on doins
 then myself or hired somebody else t1 | come, but l would never ask a maid tf | do all the extras that they are rirht | in not considering their kind of work was the answer. Now that she has
 taken these things upon herself-sht | even cleans my rubbers-I see that she | has little present once in a while that
 l know will be welcome But I don't
 make any, reference to it in any otbe, way, and we understand each other"