The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1905-07-15
True Economy.

she has no luXuries in table or dress.
Doing without things is not economy
it's only cheating yourself with false
idea. True economy is really making
the best use of things-and it is rob-
bling yourself of a great deal if you
are deprived in one direction at the
hevy cost of something else. The
woman who does not have nice things
the best meats and the best vege-
tables-does not know how to save the
nice little bits that are left to make
over into dainty dishes for another
time-she probably also makes some
one in the family i'll, with cheap fruit
or vegetables, and spends more on
doctors bill and in her own strength
than would twice cover an original
wise expenditure.
This kind of woman probably dls-
courages buying newspapers and mag
azines-so she seldom sees anything
about "sales," or hears about Things
that are in fashion. She thinks she
must wear her bonnet another summer
with it's dusty ribbon and faded HOW
ers. She thinks it pleaseS her husband
to save the money-and bye and bye
he thinks he is married to the most
careless, ugliest woman he knows.
That's the poorest kind of economy.
The woman who demands nice things,
in reason, of course, gets them, ana
the man respects her for them. do
women like men who have no regard
for their personal appearance? is II
economy for him to wear his clothes
until they are shiny and out OF style,
at the cost of having his wife think
he is mean and anything but attrac-
tive? The woman who wears rags 10
do her homework in to save better
clothing is getting her husbands eye all
ready to admire the first trim, pretty,
tidy woman he sees; and the man who
wears soiled neckties and linen to save
his best ones sows a nice crop of dis
gust in his wife's mind, which may
bring him in a very unpleasant har-
vest.
The people who think they "save"
the most are the people who generally
store things away in attics and barn
lofts because it would be wicked to
throw them away and some day they
"might need 'em." Now, just let us
take a peep into the attic! Well, one
look is enough-enough to make one
i'll! | advise you to take everything
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and dust it. Oh, yes l know it Will
be a task, but you won't have so much
trouble next time. Just look at the
things you have kept there for years
too old now for any ones use-the
moth eaten things, the mouse eaten
things. and the moss covered things!
Give away all the things you have
had for three years and did not use,
in the furniture way! If you did not
have need for them during that time,
you probably will not ever have need
for them and it will teach you a good
lesson to have things repaired or USED
and not wasted. Burn up or give
away clothing you cannot or will not
make use Of If it has been In the
attic a year, believe me, you will never
use tits no economy to have it eaten
up in the attic.
Now, get two big calico bags, one
black, and put in all the nice pieces OF
black goods-new and ripped, and
pressed, wooden, silk and muslin. In
the other bag put colored things. When
YOU have hung them up on their own
pegs get several small pasteboard
boxes. Into one put hooks and eyes.
Into another white buttons, In another
dark buttons, and so on and label them.
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