Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25

themselves every time that by some sharp
or underhand method they are able 10
get something for nothing. These people
never intend to pay bill If there Is any
way out of it. On the other hand there
are weaklings who want nice Things ana
get them, hoping they will be able TO pa!
for them II anything turns out so they
can. have a neighbOr. for instance,
who wants everything nice that she sees
her neighbOrs have and who is eternaily
getting things on the instailment plan n
friend let the family have oriental rugs
to furnish their new house and this with
out any commission, yet they have been
unable to keep up the small payments
agreed upon, and there is no redress I'M
less the rugs are taken away. Better a
thousand times bare floors than walking
daily over soft places, made so by other
peoples sacrifices.
/ know another woman who has let her
butchers bill run up to a hundred dol
lars. the while she draws salary or only
thousand a year. She should have re-
allied that expensive chops and roasts
were not for her on that salary; for IKE
Poor Richards example of what it means
to go in debt, it keeps her poor nose
to the grindstone' all the time, in a well
nigh unavailing effort to keep up daiiy
expenses and at the same time reuuce
bills already expanded out of all due pro-
portion to the ~income. If we could each
one look the situation fairly in the face,
see what we can afford and then resolute.
ly set our faces against going beyond
that, we should all feel happier when the
yearly time Of reckoning up our financial
standing comes around.
overdrawing Accounts in Other Lines
While not all people overdraw their
accounts along financial lines. there is
growing number of men and women VINO
are burning the candle at both. ends and
overdrawing their accounts of strength
and health. This is even more pernicious
in it's results than the too free expendi-
ture of money, for impaired health is not
always to be restored even with much
seeking. Sometimes this extravaganza is
due to the pursuit of pleasure. the pace
that kills: but oftener 1t is I'm u too close
and all absorbing attention to business.
There is the woman who is model
housekeeper and mother. She wants
everything about her in harmony with
her ideas of order and immaculate clean
Illness, While all this is most commend
able, if she has strength or practical as
sistance, it is not the part of wisdom to
overdo to keep up standards when the
aesh is weak and help Is not to be had
for the seeking. In this case let the WIN
dows go unpublished for season, and the
front steps unwashed. Use the sweeper
or vacuum cleaner in lieu of the back
breaking broom; let the children learn to
make their own beds. boys as well as
girls; let them be responsible for the
needs Of the dog. the cat or the bird; let
father help get the dinner on the table If
there is much lifting back and forth; and
so long as the fire is bright on the hearth,
mothers brow is unfurrowed, and there
IS a smile on her lips, the home contin-
gent are not going to feel themselves
neglected or the home uncared for.
A Homemade Buster.
Have you tried making lintless buster
quite as good as the magic busters widely
advertised among labor-saving ap-
pliancesf