The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-07-08

Sleeve CASTING $50 Expensive.
A certain writer has a penchant for
making over and altering her own
clothes. She will lengethen sleeves
and put fresh lace in her blouses with
infinite care and at the cost Of a great
deal of time. After she had been al
tering a little batiste blouse which
couldn't have cost more than So or
iginally and which had seen one seas
on's wear. made an estimate of the
time it had taken her, and showed
her in cold figures how she might
easily have written at least q hun
dred dollars worth of copy in that
time-and sold it, too. Then l mildly
suggested that sleeves at $50 each
were something a bit more expensive
than she ought to year. She protest.
ed weakly that the blouse was too
good to throw away, and that no
seamstress would do such a putter-
ing, tedious job.
You see that funny, economical
streak in her protested against dis
carding a blouse which only needed
new sleeves-yet she might have
bought twenty new blouses il she had
worked at her own trade-if l may
call writing a trade.
You all know plenty of women who
have a passion for utilizing over food.
Who make it their boast that they
use every bit of foodstuff that comes
into their house, and who are never
SO happy as when a steak bone and a
spoonful of mashed potatoes await
their magic touch to be turned into
a banquet.
Well, don't you believe them.
There is precious little good in US
ing up your energy in a passionate
study of the best way to dispose of
three slices of stale bread and a cup
of tomato soup. Many a woman will
wear her life and energy out over
nonsense like tAls. while her children
run wild on the street and get into
all sorts of bad company, because,
forsooth, she is in the kitchen, too
busy thinking out a new kind of has.
to give them the care and attention
they should have.
Petty Economist Needs "Treatment'
You all know the people who save
all the bits of string, who burn their
fingers regularly trying to light three
lamps with one match, who walk to
save carfare until they are worn out,
who write letters on half sheets of
old note paper, who make doilies out
of old sugar sacks, and whose best
CLOTHES are always a season behind
the styles because they simply could
MT bear to wear them while they were
newt seemed so extravagant!
If you have a person like this in
your family, try to cure him-or her
right now. Point out that there
are lots of big, beautiful things watt
ing to be done, that there are SO
many good times to be enjoyed, that
styles are so changeable-and, in
short, that an economy which wearies
your body and wastes your time or af-
fects your appearance is not an econ
lomy at all, but a first class foolishness
with a large capital F.
Economy lies in using all your time
to the best advantage, in buying moth
ing for which you have not some def
mite use at the time of purchase, In
using your belongings when they are
most appropriate, and in discarding
them or passing them on to some one
who can use them, when they are of
no more use to you. And II you think
for one moment that 1t is easy to do
all of these things. just try them.
The rarest bird of the human species
is the person who is a true economist.
Some Funny Ideas of Economy; Often
Expensive to be Saving
To the most of us, so some one has
said, economy means going without
the things we want in order that we
may buy the things we need. In my
various wanderings round about this
good world of ours l have seen funny
economies, foolish economies, sensi-
bic economies, he%artbreaking econo-
mies-and a lot of others.
For instance. there was the Lady
Of-Uncertain-Age who had a small
and steady income which would have
| given her a hle living in a