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

by BEAT RUE A1hF IA,
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 a more pleasing dain-
ty than 1t 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
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, I'M
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 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.
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
] / d 9nLr ~
1t. I believe that little circumstance
has resulted 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
lmirth-ConvulsinE 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 10 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 pleasant
and forget all that is disagreeable
Tell them to economic on their
pleasant memories and throw away
all that hurts and raukles.
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. / mean times that try
hope and faith and courag e; the kinds
of trouble that come to the rich and
the poor alike, and that pass on leav-
ing bereft and broken hearted women
I'm 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 TO
sweeten to-day's grief. But they
must store them away, They won't
find anything in memory TO smile
about if they employ the present i'm
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! Il is the SUI
premest Of all the arts Of economy.