The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-02
KANSAS COMAENT
ECONOMIES OF YESTERDAY.

ECONOMIES OF YESTERDAY.
Among all the other points in the
oepale, this proposition stands out as
an admitted fact: The cost of living
is high.
Meat is expensive, fancy patent
flour runs into money, the potato ac-
count moves steadily to a burdensome
total, and so it goes
And 1t is mportant-though not par
tlcularly encouraging-to recall that
on mush and milk
It isn't necessary to pry into the
archives OF dim and musty past to
ma record of the time when corn
dishes from which the lines of many a
square meal radiated. Personal recol-
iectlon may be drawn a little this side
OF the Oldest inhabitants fund for
Ine history Of occasions where the
laoIe groaned at nothing more weighty
or pretentious than rye bread and
hominy, the former "sauced" by dried
apple stew.
The Herald has scanned with inter-
est the menus proposed in substitu
ton of meat diet without fnding any
scheoule OF mush and milk as reg
uIar evening feast, or the fried left
over or the mush-pot, sa1ved and
sWeetened by sorghum, for the break
Iast meal. Nowhere in the economi-
cal hints Is there given a recommended
tlon OF chickory compounds or parch-
ed corn stew to fill the place of the
morning drink. and tighten the load
OF the coffee bill. The assurance does
not anywhere appear that ten-cent
coHee VIII In pinch do as well as
the nfty-cent brand or that imagina-
tion may be made servD the purpose
OF sWeeten1ng, as an aid to economy.
TIM dist OF household publications
which specialize on helpful hints are
endless, and ways and means for max
ing ornamental bookracks out of bar
relS are evolved in panoramas of
wonderful length But nowhere that
the Herald has observed is the coun-
sci given to keep two grades of SUI
gar IN the house, the brown molasses
kind for the family consumption and
a small supply of granulated, which
fathers old trousers are to be short
ened and reinforced for the son and
heir as general polio. in our ma
tlonal economies, the Herald has
missed the plans and specifications in
the tumult over high prices and the
need for retrenchment
These things were not the Tempo
rary resort, but the regular necessity
OF the generation of yesterday-these
and the paper tapers that saved the
early bedtime that made the coal oil
cans trip to market less frequent.
Living is high, to be sure. What
the reasons may be, no one seems
" hHo". 1ouDtleSS tnere are UNFAIR
agencies at work. But it is safest to
recall that a return to the old basis
means return to the old ways. At
the other extreme of our way of liv-
ing lies the corn-meal sack, the indis-
pensible mush-pot, and the meat that
was killed and "cured" at home or
done without-Ottawa Herald.
THE ONE WHO FORGETS.
An Enporia young man is going to
lose his job one of these days because
ne forgets things. His employer has
become tired of his absent-minded-
ness.
He is told to do a thing, and he
doesn't do 1t: when he is asked about
it. he says: "Oh. I forgot!' He seems
to regard that as full explanation of
everything.
Forgetful people are common every
where. and they never make a sue
cess in life. The man who forgets is
seldom promoted: he is seldom given
a responsible place. he is usually fired
as soon as an opportunity offers.
Forgetting Is a habit, and a bad one
If man keeps his mind on his duties,
he won't often forget. If he desires
&c remember things they won't escape
his mind.
The people who are always forgetting
their duties and obligations don't really
forget; 1t is Just an excuse, and a
cheap, futile one.
The clerk who forgets to do some
thing he was told to do never forgets
to go to his meals when the time ar
rives; he never forgets to stand in
line on pay day; he never forgets a
holiday when it comes along.
Most of the people who go to the
POOR house to spend their declining
years made a business of forgetting
when it was their duty to remember
All the failures in life are profession
q! forgetters.
If you are acquiring the forgetting
habit, get rid of it. or it will get you
into trouble.-Emporia Gazette.