The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-01-21
GLEANINGS BY THE WAYSIDE.
SELECT READING FOR THE FAMILY.

ILL w AlOlUL.
FOR THE FAMILY.
do you answer when being talked to.
If you have not time to consider get
some listener to count how many
times you repeat any one phrase.
Perhaps it is ''yes" with rising in
Election said over and over again until
your hearers are half-maddened; may
be it is silly NOW what do you think
of that?"
One girl said mercy" thirty-fve
times in five minutes. It meant moth
ing; there was no startling or shock
ing news from the other end; it was
merely habit.
Some girls have the habit of re-
peating, Il never in my life; others
adopt the current slang, fine and
dandy" or great" and use it to an
noying lengths.
One girl was called N. o. Y. L. for
months before she discovered the real
son of her nickname-trick of con-
stantly saying mot on your life"
| It pays you to break yourself of a
pet expression because it is inelegant,
because it is silly, and because it bores
hearers.
You may not be important enough
to have your pet phrase caricatured as
is Mr. Roosevelt's delighted" but it
causes you to be criticised.
THRIFT.
One wonders quite frequently where
so many girls get the idea that it is
rather fine to be careless about
money matters. 1t wouldn't matter
so much, probably, if they weren't al
ways the girls who need to think
twice before spending a penny. The
girls in moderately well-to-do famil-
les are more apt to consider the small
things than are the daughters of
poorer households. Perhaps this habit
of looking out for the little has some
thing to do with their better circum-
stances.
| Among people of true refinement
carelessness about money, reckless
spending and extravagant display
which requires the paying out of a lot
of money, seem vulgar and unworthy
To Aunt Bride, waste of any sort has
always seemed little short of wicked
And Aunt Bride has met the girl who
never mends anything. Stockings are
thrown away when the first holes
come, and new ones bought. Protest
against extravaganza and she shrugs
her pretty shoulders and wants to
know why she should bother about a
few cents when she is earning a good
salary. They're all wrong in their at
titude, it seems to Aunt Bride. They
don't see life straight. 1t should be a
part of daily living to make the most
of possessions as we'll as opportuni
ties. Possessions are only accessories
which help us to live our lives in the
best possible way, you know. If we
are too lazy to think out wise ways OF
using them, we are missing something
of life.
Thrift you see has several sides
besides the hard, prosaic face usually
presented for our consideration. Still
it seems to Aunt Bride that the CIR
who has her own living to earn car
not afford to ignore thrift for single
minute. No matter how good jol
you may have, there is no telling wher
something may happen to throw you
out of it. Even the most faithful
service will not always insure YOU
place. Your employer may move
away or he may fail and be unable
to pay for help. Any one of thou
sand things may happen and if you
have spent every cent of your wage!
, as fast as your pay envelope wal
handed to you, you surely will regre
it. A few dollars in the bank will g
a long way towards landing you in an
other good place. While if you hav,
nothing at all to fall back on your
T have a sense of panic that will stant
in the way of your getting the bes
places.
So, as perhaps you've suspected al
along, this is just one of Aunt Bride
preface. What she wants to say i
T that she hopes that among your New
l Year resolutions has been one pledg
: ing yourself to start savings banl
{ account this year or to add substan
TALLY to the one you've already started
: There are a few who have so man
4 calls on their slim purses that the
1 can't save, no matter how they try
D They feel themselves in rare goo
q luck when they can pay for all tn
must haves." But for most of u
there are many may HAYES" tina
might be cut off without any grea
hardship. The money saved can b
q put in the bank, and used later to blu
5 a home, or otherwise invested.
\
y THE WOMAN WHO MAKES GOOE
q The woman who makes good mus
I be blessed with strength and healt
: and an ambition to learn and tax
q advantage of every opportunity tha
comes her way, says the Delineato
IT She must work with all her heart
e play with all her heart, above a
Q things avoiding Indifference and tn
IL enemy to all progress-apathy.
q She may select the pleasure tia
e may bring her the greatest jo.
IS Choose the work she is best fitted 10
n Ordinary hard luck never ruins PEI
o pie. 1t puts them in a mood to lear
q a thing or two. Everybody make
e r,,ictoLoc With Gonna II 10 a rooJyIc