The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-12-25

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then Wen know It and can stop maxi
ing that mistake. Angelica says she
will help me balance and figure out the
percentages never could do per-
centages."
"You don't mean that Angelica 10
going to keep tabs on our household
expenses2" gasped Morton.
tOh. you mustn't mind that. She
helps lots Of young married girls-she
says she Is helping them to make their
husbands happy and contented. That
is her life work. She started doing Il
only for the poor people In the settle
ment, but she has discovered that pe0-
pie comfortably OF need help just as
much, And so / started right away.
but can't finish till you tell me your
part of 1t. Here's place for mans
lunch and another for 'carfares,' that
you must tell me, and every day you
must tell me how much you have spent
for. magazines or papers that goes
under Improvements, and IL You give
something to beggar you must tell me
so can put it down under Church and
Charity
"Every night I will ask you so you
won't forget anything. Angelica has
been helping one young couple and
they haven't been q cent out of the
way since they began. The husband
remembers every tinty winty thing he
spends and he is so happy just on &C.
count of It."
Morton snorted inwardly and had
some rather sinister thoughts regard
ing Angelica and her missionary enter
prise. lis there definite percentage
for the amount Of tobacco husband
can use2"
'Yes, indeed-but the book says that
one Of the things the young people
ought to strive to do is to divert that
money-those are the words the book
uses-into other more worthwhile
channels, such as lecture courses, the
purchase Of an encyclopedia or a beau
tiful work of art. Don't you think An
gelica is doing wonderful work."
Eyes, quite wonderful, not to say re-
markable, phenomenal and epoch
making" said Morton, d<Peggy was
satisfied. .
Every night for month thereafter
Morton was obliged to confess just how
much he spent on luncheon, shoe
shines, beggars and tobacco. and even
had to admit that he lost a dollar on b
bet one day and gained two dollars the
next, though Peggy hadn't any idea
where TO enter these items and fpalIy
decided on putting the dollar down I'M
der mortgage interest because she
hadn't anything else for that column,
and calling the other simply ''cash re-
ceived."
Angelica had promised to help Peg
gy with the percentages and correct
their budget at the end of the follow
ing month, and Morton was casting
about in his mind for a way Of defeat
Ing her in her purpose. One night early
in the second month of their budget
accounts he told his wife he had met
an interesting old school friend of his
who had a delightful mission in life.
He was trying to help the men he
knew to make their wives happy and
he had worked outsa system which as
yet he had not had published. It was,
et..t Morton, the theory Of this man
that the most -erth-while thing In life
was not money. Mol.1y was incident
al. Ones happiness did not depend
on the amount of money one had SO
why take pains to conserve it2 The
things that counted were the words
one spoke, the smiles and tears and
signs and laughter. 1t was as folk
use these real things of life that they
were either happy or unhappy. For
instance, If a man laughs only when
his wife hits her thumb with ham
mer or when he sees cat with a tin
can on the end Of Its tail, he is pretty
sure to make himself and his asso-
ciates unhappy.
The woman who spends two hours
every morning gossiping with neigh
Dor about another neighbours divorce
case is wasting her time and cheating
her husband because q woman's words
belong as much to her husband as q
mans savings belong to his wife.
Peggy listened intently to the ex-
PLANTATION, and seemed entfral.ed. So
far, was she from suspecting Morton's
scheme that she even suggested that
Angelica would like to meet the
stranger, and went off into a very
pleasant brown study as she thought
that possibly a match might be made
between these two workers for hui
manity's happiness-and SO there
might, had the second philanthropist
been person Of flesh and blood and
not creature Of Morton's imagina-
ton. Morton gave his wife some type
written sheets containing items and a
system of horizontal and perpendicu-
lar lines not unlike Angelica's budget
book and he asked her to fill In the
items from day to day. he would not
let her forget, he said, but would go
over the sheets every evening after
he had finished telling her just how
much he had spent.
One Of the items of MortOn's scheme
was labeled "tears" and under this
poor Peggy felt In duty bound-for
Morton had accounted for his lunch
money to a penny-to explain the
cause for every tear she shed. The
tears she spent over the frost-bitten
geraRlum plant were In measure ex-