The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-05-26


merce and Manufacturers Associa.
tion Building The lecture was Civ
en- at the invitation of the city fedora
alton of women's clubs. Mr.. Mac
Dowell was introduced by Mrs. c. II.
Huyelle, president of the federation.
Waste" said Mr.. MacDowell, "is
the greatest enemy of thrift We order
a great juicy porterhouse steak he
| said; I'VE eat the tenderloin and
throw the bone to the junk dealer,
who makes it into dog meat. The dog
gets two biscuits, and what does he
do? He eats one and buries the other
That is real thrift"
I'VE have so long been thinking of
thrift in terms of money. But it means
a great deal more than money; it
means the conservation of all our re-
sources and the conservation of our
health, our mind and the conserva-
tion of our intellect.
AS 10 Woman's Job
1--WE hear a great deal these days
| about a mans job, but there is an
other thing which is being impressed
upon the women OF our country-the
res possibility of womans job. We
talk OF how much foresight patience
and u multitude of things man must
have to be good at his job, but he does
not have to possess half the assets of
woman's job. She must be hotel
keeper, merchant, tinancier to handle
the money; she must be the educator
of her children, and she must be an
angel of the Gospel to carry the Cos
pel to her children, and she has to be
a nurse.
THE greatest asset we have today,
the greatest resource of the family
today, | am positive you will agree
with me, is our children, and we nat
urally turn our minds in channel
governing things which will develop
! those children.
Three hundred thousand babies un-
der three years of age, died in this
country each year, because we do not
know what the conservation of health
means for ourselves or our children"
Play of Children.
Here Mr.. MacDowell spoke of the
time that is lost because parents do
not know how to direct the play
their children. He spoke of the young
people who go out to social functions
which begin at an unreasonably late
hour and who attend school the day
following There is nothing wrong
in the pleasures they seek, but he con-
tended that the method is all wrong.
"lf we are going to have our chill
dren develop into big men and women,
we must start training them now.
Children should be taught early the
value of money Then is the time
to begin to inculcate those teachings
of thrift. Thrift is habit and habit
does not form in a day.
would suggest something along
the line of the family altar, Have a
family counsel where the father and
the mother and all the children bring
their problems, and let everybody be
given right to express their ideas
freely.
"The secret that every boy and girl
must learn is the ability to say no TO
the little things, in order that they
may later be able to attain the big
things. That will develop character
and restraint.
'In the home there is great waste
of energy. A small kitchen is the
| thing to have--a 'two-byfour.'
"Our young men in sport life think
+ the greatest American game is base
ball: it is nothing of the kind. DO you
know what it is? 1t is bluff, Ameri
can bluff, known all over the world,
It is one reason for the high cost Of
living.
On Wheelbarrow Salary
There are people who are trying to