Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-10
Warmed Over
Joys
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.

By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
TINE woman who has been taught
by necessity TO make both
virtue and an art of economy
will take what was left from one meal
and make Of # an appetizing dish for
the next, often a more pleasing DAM
ty than it was on its first appear
ance
Driven by the present high cost Of
living and tormented by the specter
of higher prices in future, house,
wives are making of economy
greater virtue every day, and
warmed-over dishes are receiving a
respectful recognition that in days
Of lower prices was steadfastly de-
MED them.
This is an art that adds to the ma 1
teTial prosperity. and that should be
| extended to include within its scope
the ability to warm over odds and
ends of past happiness. since pros
perity is not worth the trouble to
achieve, and does not last long, UNI
less happiness attends
1t is not enough to make an old
garment into a new, nor TO turn the
residue Of yesterdays dinner into
dinner for to-day; one must be able
to make of yesterdays happy events
food for pleasant memories to-day.
That is the greatest of all economic
virtues, and the one we most need.
l once knew a woman who could
recall an event Of 20, 80 or 40 years
before and laugh as heartily over the
memory as she laughed at the time Of
the happening 1T seemed funny to
me then she would say, Wiping the
| tears Of laughter from her eyes. and
| II seems funnier every time / think OF
| it. l believe that little circumstance
| has resulted in hundreds of good
4 laughs since"
| She always. she added, remembered
all the pleasant things that had hap
pened to her filling her mind so full
| of Incidents to laugh about there was
no room for the lUgubriOus. The pic
/ mics she attended as a girl, and which
/ had been spoiled by rain, were pushed
out Of mind by those I'm which the
1 pie was upset in the lemonade, or
some one sat i'm the potato salad,
| little mishaps that add 10 the general
Imerriment when one is young. Every
/ mirth- convulsing incident of her
/ youth retained its mirth- convulsing
! powers. If there was no new joy for
to-day, she had always yesterdays
joys to warm over.
Hard Times Ahead.
! It seemed to me to be the kind Of
| economy the Old world needs, q sort
| of saving Of past sunshine and using
4 its light and warmth on days that
/ have little or none.
But one must begin" said this
| wise woman. when one is young. for
| il is then the sun shines warmest and
/ brightest. Just tell the dear young
girls to remember all that is pleasant
/ and forget all that is disagreeab.e.
| Tell them to eConOIjze on their
/ pleasant memories al 4 throw away
| all that hurts and rausles.
There are hard times ahead for
] them, and I don't mean the hard times
/ that affect the poCketbook, for while
/ they are hard they are the easiest Of
Ian TO bear. I mean times that try
/ hope and faith and courage: the kinds
| of trouble that come to the rich and
| the poor alike. and that pass on leav-
/ ing bereft and broken hearted women
J i'm their trail.
4 1T is then they should be able to
/ turn 70 their mental storehOuses and
I find "a lot Of happy memories stored
| there TO be brought out and used to
sweeten to-day's grief. But they
must store them away, They won't
| find anything i'm memory to smile
/ about if they employ the present in
storing away odds and ends of resent
ment, bitterness and disappointment.
! We only find what we put away, and
/ ! put away the best of every days
/ happenings"
/ Get the habit, girlsl It is the SUI
/ premest Of all the arts Of economy.
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