Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1908-01-21
Took the Brown Hat.
INSTEAD OF A WASHING MACHINE
HOW MRS. NORTHEAST CUT DOWN
THE HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES.

HOW MRS. NORTHEAST CUT down
THE HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES.
"Henry," Mrs. Northeast said few
nights ago, a. she poured the tea, "I've
been figuring It up and I find It's costing
u far too much to live"
"If we could cut out eating" MI
Northeast began.
"I've been thinking 1t over carefully
Mrs. Northeast continued, land / hnd
we could make big saving In our wash
ing and laundry bills. A man was here
to-day selling perfectly lovSk washing
machine. Tvs been reading q whole lo'
lately about women doing their OWL
washing, and don't see why I can't do
the same thing and save money. Why,
there Is one woman In the Homely
Ladies' Journal who saved"
"The price of another years sub
scription?" Mr.. Northeast interrupted
"Henry, don't be frivolous. We've
been married two months and it's time
we began to systematize our household
expenses. Do you know how much n
costs to have that woman do our wash.
ingp A dollar and 35 cents week. Thai
would pay the interest on more than
thousand dollars. With thousand dol
lars we could"
"Pay the interest on $4,000" Mr.
Northeast said. "And with that $4,000
We could"
"Henry, please be serious and listen
The washing machine costs only $40
The man says child could run 1t. The
what.do-you-call-it is balanced so evenly
that the least pressure will turn the-ah
you know what mean-and the
clothes come out cute little door al
clean and nice. It's SO easy to under
stand. There are printed directions,
too, you know. With this machine
could do your shirts and collars, also
and save laundry bills. You just put
the starch
"Great Scott! wouldn't wear-I NEAR
I wouldn't have you break your back
over my shirts for anything, and as fol
collars, really, my dear, you couldn't gel
the saw.tooth effect produced in the
modern laundry in hundred years."
"Henry," Mrs. Northeast said, firmly
lone never knows what one can do until
one tries. / told the man to call again
and If you will leave me SO"
"But, my DEAR" Mr.. Northeast pro-
tested, "do you know that no washing
machine ever was invented that could
be run by anything less than Q high
power turbine engine? You could rur
the clothes through stone crusher and
not damage them half as much as"
Henry" Mrs. Northeast said, still
more firmly, II have made up my mind
No woman is a real housekesper unit
she can do q washing and do up her hus
bands shirts. I have telephoned the
laundry man not to call any more, and
"Hoiy smoked Look here, you don't
mean you are going to try to starch my
collars and cuffsp"
"Yes, Henry. The Ladies' Homely-'
"Hang the Honey"
CONTAINS accurate directions, how
to do it, and no woman of intelligence
should be willing to confess that she ID
ignorant of this important branch oil
housekeeping. Why, laundries have
been known only few years yway.
Your grandmother starched and ironed
your grandfather's collars"
"My grandfather also wore chin whisk
ers," Mr.. Northeast said, Grossly, sand
creased his boots with pork rind."
"Most young married couples star
out by living beyond their incomes,
Mrs. Northeast resumed, land you know
Henry, we are drifting the same way
We must economic. am willing to dc
my share to retrench, and won't minc
the extra work in the least"
Mr.. Northeast being man of wisdom
offered no further word In opposition
but put $40 on the table.
"I'm sorry you've made up your mind
to spend the money that way" he said
regretfully. "Of course we save by it
but the $40 would just buy that ha
you were looking at in the window"
20, Henry: The one with the brown
plumes!'
didn't you like the green velvet ont
better?"
"Well, it was pretty; yes, but yor
know that one was $12."
WELL" Mr.. Northeast said, pushing
back the chair, "you can do as yor
please with the money, you know; bu!
the washing machine if you wish"
He didn't hear anything more about i
until the next night, when Mrs. North
east again brought up the subject a
dinner.
"Henry," she said. 81 found it yer!
hard to resist the temptation to buy thu
green hat, but I did not feel that it would
be right. I have made up my mind Il
save money, and I did it,"
"And you bought that internal wash
ing machine?" Mr.. Northeast said, hasti
ly.
"No, Henry, bought the brown ha
and saved S." said Mrs. Northeast tri
umphantly.-Kansas City Star.