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

THE woman who has been taught
by necessity to make both a
virtue and an art of economy
will take what was left from one meal
and make Of It an appetizing dish for
the next, often more pleasing dain-
ty than II 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 a
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
terial 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, unst
less happiness attends.
It is not enough to make an old
garment into new, nor to turn the
residue Of yesterdays dinner into A
dinner for to-day; one must be abie
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
Il seems funnier every time l think OF
It. l believe that little circumstance
has Fesulted in hundreds of good
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 in which the
pie was upset in the lemonade, or
some one sat in the potato salad,
little mishaps that add to the general
merriment 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. a sort
Of saving Of past sunshine and using
its light and warmth on days that
have little or none.
But one must begin" said this
wise woman, when one is young for
it is then the sun shines warmest and
brightest Just tell the dear young
girls to remember all that is pleaslbt
and forget all that is disagreeab.o.
Tell them to ecOnomize on their
pleasant memories and throw away
all that hurts and rankles.
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
all to bear. l mean times that t5y
hope and faith and courage; the kinds
Of trouble that come 10 the rich and
the poor alike, and that pass on leav-
ing bereft and broken hearted women
In their trail.
1T is then they should be able to
turn to their mental stOrehouses and
find a lot of happy memories stored
there to be brought out and used 10
sweeten to-day's grief But they
must store them away! They won't
find anything in memory to smile
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, girls! II is the SUI
premest Of all the arts Of economy.