Bisbee daily review., 1915-11-20
RgcLAIMINe EAMILY JuNK

RECLAIMlNG FAMILY JUNK
 In recent issue of the Saturday Evening Post Mir Forrest Crissy tells most attention-comipelng story of the way a with imagination saves money for railroad by retaining junk from the scrapheap and giving it and useful life
 It s positively thrilling to read about the s260OO for which he sold the waste paper which had been accum uatng in station basements, and the consequent ing of insurance the And the sS7OOO year he saves by retiring old wheel ceners with steel tires instead of throwing them away whole. And to a female person whose chief con with finance figuring whether she'll have to the thanksgiving bird the old open pan because she needs the money for roaster buy rug for the bathroom the idea of washing sweepngs in "atter' to the settings brass babb metal is simply dazzling
 In fact the whole subject of retaining Junk fascinating that not woman with household can help letting her mind ruin over the retaining possibilities in her own business-the family.
 Now this is no article telling housewives to reclaim their old kitchen chairs by gliding them and tying pink bow in the corner. Nor how to make soup out or lamb chop bones Women know entirely too much about that reclamation for their own good The household columns have been filled for many years with just such advice how cout out the flowers from their old lace curtains applique them upon velvet or aatin for cushion In the place no woman ortisuc sense B(says famous designeD ever puts that kind of lace curtain her windows the place anything useless in sanitary and inaristic than the produca velvet cushion cover appliqued with lace roses-couId be invented In the important third the time and energy spent by women indoors ruiung her and lungs by that work could be in vested infinitely greater profit for herself and her family in walk outofdoors.
 Mo- that of reclamation is one to which house wives have too long been addicted It's not a virtue Irs a disease
 But when woman forsets for a moment that "her place is in the home"-which specious phrase n- stead of inspired one and remembers instead that Ca housewes business is caring for her family which is totally different may have reclamation and conservation feats that are worth while.
 Here's Johnny with adenods for instance. A good part of Johnnys power is going to the scrapheap be cause of them large percentage of his hearing is lost His general health is below par Year by year the waste of Johnnys energy those adenoids goes on Why save and turn Johnny into a 100 per cent boy instead of 70 per cent boy by the eNpendi ture of a little brains and repairmoney?
 How about that cavity in your tooth that you postpone having filled? Fiirst thing you know the dent will have scrape that tooth and put in wholc new one. Pretty wasteful isn't h?
 lt isn't brass and copper and babbh metal you need Go in your homes ladies' It is your strength The most expensive and valuable thing in the world is human energy.
 Are you saving money-a very little-buying inferior milk and butter? How much human life and strengtl are you throwing the scrapeheap by the process?
 Reclamation achievements need judgment to be ef fectiye the yneod square solid of relative val ues Mere economy of materials or money is not neces aarily thrift especially in the business of caring for family What is needed is what this railroad man call "consructiyc thrn'-the thrift that builds.
 Scrap your old lace curtains cheerfuly ladies Tur your conservation efforts towards human lire strengd and happiness