Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-12
DREAMER IS GETTING GRITTY.

l Dear Social Corner Friends: If Billie | and the others. too. only knew how
 many, both large and small, mouths ] there arc to fill In the Dreamer family wouldn't wonder if you asked:
 Where does Mrs. Dreamer find the l time to write to the Corner2'' | Well, I'm not going to tell you how 1 many there are of us, neither shall T tell you where find the time to write 1 to you all. 1 will, however, 'fess that we are some family, and the honest 1 injun truth is I do not get time to write any letters, either personal or Social Corner; but simply because [ do not have the time for letter writing makes me more determined than ever to write; so about once in so often play that little game of Rob Peter Pay Paul." Have any of you ever play ed it?
 There now, I wasn't going to tell you where 1 found the time to write to you; but it's out. Where's the woman Who can keep secret? Ready can.
 There seems to be a campaign these days upon Wastefulness, or rather Woman's Wastefulness; and I must admit that women can be wretchedly wasteful in more ways than one; but show that they are not to be classed among the wasters. I'm going to cita an instance:
 A friend of mine who has been mar- T1SQ IeSS Lnan a year DlQS Ia1T to be a GrSt-class economist, but her economy fails to please her negro wash woman, who was lanenting to her mother that my friend was so saving she made the family eat their garbage.
 :" Deed, they does eat their garbage" declared the negro woman to her mother. "Why, my ian'R Mai Miss Hattie (naeaning nay frtehd) grindE the stale bread and uses 1t to roll oysters, meat, cakes. etc., in before frying She f-A To warm over next day for lunch, and she even burns the potato peelinEs, cause she says it cleans out the grate in the range. I declare. Ma. can't slip 8 morsel home for you and the kids, cause tell you they eats their garbage"
 When my friend related this in stance I surely did have a good laugh. for it went te show this particular negro woman had not been accuston- ed to working for families who ate their garbage; but rather she had been accustomed to see in garbage cans quantities of dry bread. bits of odds and ends of this and that which might have been turned into a. tempting lunch for the family.
 Evidently some housewives have no inclination to be classed among the savers. Perhaps it hurts their feel ings, or ruffies their pride to be called garbage eaters. If I'm not mistaken, there is great need of more families in this city knowing how to use their garbage.
 I'll have to admit it takes grit to be- como an economic housewife. When l first commenced housekeeping, grit was a bump which had not developed to any great size. But the high prices have helped my bump of grit to grow by leaps. Many are the times Eve been done-cheated, imposed upon; but I'm learning to be slert-to get nay moneys worth Quite recently I ordered Q Dot roast When it came, the grocery clerk handed it to me paid him, and, the hall being dark. l didn't open the wrapper and examine it, as I usually do, When I took 1t to the kitchen and looked at it carefully found it was too fat. and In the cen ter, hidden from view. was a bone. promptly sent the roast back, with a note attached asking the grocer to please remove the waste It came back with fat and bone removed and eight cents in cash.
 Once I would not have dared to do such a thing; but I felt that l need ed eight cents worth of grit more than eight cents worth of bone.
 If this can be called Woman's Rights, then l crave for more of 1t. And so it goes. If we do not demand our moneys worth we will not get it. The Golden Rule is not in evidence, and it looks like it Is; 'Do others before they do youl"
 If the editor should name my letter 'Tid-bits" I shall nOt-squeal, for 1t is sort of made up Aof scraps. Anyway, Cernerites, when we write to the Cor ner. no apologies are demanded for handwriting; for regardless of the tracks we make with pen and ink, when our letters appear in print don't they always look good to us?
 It just occurred to me that in jus-
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