The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-08-27
WEEKLY SPARKLES AND
- POINTERS
By General Stone,caH

Ill 0y GeneTGt St0nelCGu III
Honesty is the best policy but the hardest
person in the world to be honest with is
ones self. Did you ever try it1
Temper is like money! good thing to
have in control, bad thing to lose, useful
in limited quantities, and dangerous in large
Accommodations.
The Mirror print shop, is the only de-
partment in the institution, that makes a
practice of serving lunch at 10 a. M and
3 p. m. daily -Pi, boys. pi!
| A ''lucky punch has won many
| fight, but it wouldn't have done it if the
man behind it hadn't been able to stay on
his feet until the chance came
General Stonewall, Stonewall, for God
sake stop, | want to see you! Well, be
quick friend Boles, for l am in a hurry;
don't you see l am looking for Frank D.
Purloined, boat load of Sparks and
Pointers from the Southern Jasper, and
these will appear from time to time in this
column with slight change in ear mark.
Woman's Battle With High Cost of Living
Primarily, man is the provider,
woman the spender. In the great
majority of cases, whether the pro-
wider be in business for himself or
| be salary or wage Garner. the spen-
der is on an allowance. There are
many lines of work in which the
provider may engage that will give
him more or less flexible income;
he generally fixes the allowance of
the spender somewhere between the
minimum and the maximum; as a
rule this allowance is infexible.
The housewives of the world have a
way of calling their allowance the
money they have to do with" One
will say. I have so much to do with,
you see" l can't 90 beyond this
price: for | have only so much to do
WITH" If | only had more to do
with, could do so. but there are so
many. there are so many things to be
taken care Of" And there are.
The allowance may have been
fixed several years ago when it was
ample to take care of all such things
as table and help. 1t has been grow
ing less ample year by year. Of late
it bias barely met the demands upon
it when every possible economy has
been practised, when the providers
selfdenial alone has prevented a
weekly or monthly deficit.
II is often the case that the provi-
der has increased the allowance to
the limit of his ability. But the
family always has lived up to GER
tain standard. To live below it
would not seem like living at all.
There are cheaper rentals in inferior
neighborhoods; it would be possible
to give up certain social connections;
the children might dress more plain
ly; the clubs and the theaters might
be cut out Many things that neither
the provider nor the spender wants
to do might be done, aud If they
were done, the income of the one
and the allowance of the other
might be sufficient But where would
be the compensation for all the sun
shine that had been taken out of ex-
istence?
Il is the woman, struggling day in
and day out with her accounts, her
problems in domestic economy.
sometimes striving TO make impossi-
BILE balances-forgetting herself for
children and husband and home
who often sees most clearly the two
sides of the picture, and at any sac
rifice determines to preserve the
brighter one. To do it she must
save, she must cut and scrape, she
must practise craft and artitice to
retain her hold upon the nickels and
the pennies. Hard as it may be,
and as it often is, for the provider to
keep up her allowance, his task is
not circumstance to hers; for to
her falls the duty of making both
ends meet and it's faithful and low
ing and elf-sacrificing performance
is nothing short of triumph for the
welfare and happiness of the house.
bold
But the women who have provid-
ers, have an easy time compared
to the wives, mothers and sisters Of
the men now In durance vile, just
imagine if you can the hardshlps,
the disgrace, the skimping. scrap
ing. saving, the hunger, the sleep
less nights, the weeping and sorrow
that befall that wife whose husband