New Britain herald., 1917-10-13
WHAT A POOR WIFE DOES.

Knits Sweaters For Soldiers and
 Wears Two-Year-Old Hat to Save
 Money With Which to Purchase
 Yarn.
 (Tarrytown Special to N. Y. Herald.)
 The war certainly has been cruel burden to the Rockefeller family, well known hereabouts as John D., Jr,. proved tonight when he showed crowd of merry villagers that he was wearing an old pair of half soled shoes and that his wife was wearing hat two years old.
 Despite the hardships of war, this is the happiest moment of my life," said MT. Rockefeller, when called upon for speech by his neighbors at the garden truck exposition held in the Lyceum at Pocantico Hills. II wish there were a dozen newspaper photogra phers here now to take my picture among these pumpkins and squashes-is squashes singular or plural?
 "They're a noun!" shouted a small boy
 "I grew every one of these with my own hands," Mr. Rockefeller con- tinued, "and I am proud that the committee has seen fit to pin few blue and red ribbons on them. l am happy because. in my effort to econo- mize and grow the vegetables that my family will use the coming winter, I have proved that I can be a farmer, If necessary.
 II was born on farm and started out to be a farmer, but a hornets 1ac% ,1N 1c+A However no hornets nest can dis courage me from being economical at a time when the welfare of our na- tion demands that every citizen shall grow everything possible, waste noth- ing and make everything go as far as possible.
 Why, I was going to get new pair of shoes some time ago. because actually needed them, but when the shoe merchant said that rising prices made it necessary for him to charge me $8 for a new pair I said I would economize I sent this old pair down to Tony, the village cobbler, and he half-soled them for me, and I'm going to get through the winter on them. That Is $S saved right there. That | sS loaned to the government, will help the nation in the war.
 Right over there sits my poor wife, busily knitting a sweater for some lucky soldier. She has knitted a lot of them. She knlts day and night. She is not a union knitter. l that quits when the whistle blows. As long as the war is not a union war she Is not a union knitter. That poor wife of mine in wear ing, as you see and as perhaps most of the ladies here know, hat that Is two years old. She fixed it over a bit this fall with 35-cent piece of rib bon, and it will do her until next spring. The money that a new hat
 would have cost will buy the wool for several sweaters for the soldiers 1 X (The "poor wife" referred to Is the daughter of the late Senator Nelson | w. A1drich of Rhode Island, whose fortune oB Anany millions she. divided with her brother.) E That Is what Is meant by real eoonomy-doing, without what you l don't have to have. When I was out West year or two ago I saw a tailor shop in mining town and I asked l the tailor who were his customers
 who ordered such expensive fabrics made into suits. He said his custom
 CTS were the miners. I hope they
 have mended their ways. Such
 clothes were good deal better than | mine. s When I was a boy I was guest in the home of a boy whose father was wealthy. In leaving the bath- room I asked him why he did not turn the light down. He said he nev- CT did, that his father was rich. [ 1 told him my father had taught me | when not in use. A few years later that boys father lost his fortune and he had to go to work, and as he had | not learned to economize and had not 1 taught his boy to do so, 1t was very ] hard upon both of them.
 We up here in the hills who know what the good things of life are must not only economize. We must sacri- flee. We must go without things to which we have been accustomed. Every person must accept part of the war burden, and If we do it cheer fully we will be just as happy as we were before we found that we would have to cut down expenses. I like my halfsoled shoes just as we'll as new ones Tony did good job. The shoes look all right and feel all right and protect my feet sataisfa ctorily That is all that is necessary"
 Mrs. Rockefeller and her five chil- dren accompanied MT. Rockefeller to what was called the community gar den party, and after MT. Rockefeller had made his little speech she laid aside her knitting long enough to as- sist in serving the ice cream and cake. The Rockefeller boys and the boys from the village asked for Seconds on the ice cream" and there was enough for two "helpings' for every hungry lad. Of course, with ice cream and a boy economy is out of