The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-19


 buys a tiny part of but ter, g single chop or single egg at need In America a great deal is thrown away for the reason that too much was originally bough. A house. keeper who tided her family over a particularly difacult crisis m it's af- fairs. told me that she knew precisely how many potatoes to cook for a fam fly of four. how many spoonsful of coffee should be used in a week, and how many Jumps of sugar. It must have been r.-ther a, strain to calculate so closely as she did. but her husband and children had enough to eat land snt respectively to business and to school. and they got over their troubles and swept triumphantly for- ward into financial ease. A family Tn the neighborhood with three times their income, but none of their man. agement, were always on the ragged edge of distress and were at last sold out by the sheriff.
 Fuel Is always expensive and Is the one feature that resists the careful manager. Tn winter we can not freeze and in most parts of this country we have plenty of cold weather. It is the provoking nature of fire to burn fierce- ly on a hot day and to smolder or give out only little heat on a cold day. Many a time tho heads of the house feel as if the shoveis of coal that rat tie into the furnace Tn winter. are menacing their very life, since coal is never cheap and burns away like mad once the match and the kindiing wood have set going. Gas is scarcely an economy because being in the con- trol of heartless monopolfes the house. holder Is almost certain to te pre- scented with a bill that surprises him by It's size and extent, and against the payment of which it is vaip. to pro tert Cs, inc whole. the stinffng. par ing and scraping must be applied some where else. To live at all one must have fire with which to cook food ana to keep warm. and the saving must touch some other point.
 Two cautions may be given peopis who would live well on small m come. Economize in the matter of the wardrobe A great deal of money ls neediessly frittered away on dress. lt ia by no means essential to be always at the height of the fashion. A good cut of dress or coat should last two or three seasons instead of one. Tney who understand economy and who pay cash often do we'll by shopping lit tie ont of season. Women are by no means the only transgressors in tnis
 way Men are often as extravagahl as their wives, when the affair or ex- nenditure concerns clothing.
 Cut down the feminine folly or wasting money on soda water and chocolate creams, cut down. too. the masculine folly of cigars and cigar cites. Put the money spent for these indulgences n the savings bank ana you will soon have a margin Tor the rainy day. .s Avoid running accounts. They are nerfectly safe and Q very great con- venfence if one's income IS fixed ahu iarae. If 1t be on the other nano srnslI and uncertain, there is no sense n buving what one cannot at the mo ment pav for. Trades people charge nerceutage for the privilege or cred, if. The customer would be amazeo should he stop to compute the Inter egt he pays for the accommooatlo given him by the butcher or the oaks, ss, who civilly waits so or 90 days toi ina settlement of a bill that wo-ic | hetter have been paid, at the latest ' each Saturday night.
 Everything depends after all on tn' | stanaard of living. One person mas 1 live well and save on what IS impos s,hie to another because the other na, not thought 1t worth while to ressr' l the honneiv virtue of good mahsss | want and the practice Of wise econolii' as prudent and desirable