Evening star., 1921-10-30
Heard and Seen

Gen. Dawes is not the only man
who handles "A budget.
The budget is a problem met and
solved in hundreds of Washington
homes, where ambitious men and
women wish to live properly and still
save money.
A young man whose first name is
Sam is struggling with the budget
problem now, and had it about set
! tied until his brother Phil appeared
for dinner one night with the newly
| weds.
| In Sans family il has been the
| custom, according to reliable author
! ity, TO buy nice roast on Saturday,
| let the roast make its first appear
ance on Sunday, and then for the
next few days make its entrance in
various forms, becoming beautifully
less" as w. s. Gilbert expressed it,
until it faded away in soup.
Phil came up on Saturday night.
| however, SO the roast was served
up in his honor. The roast was
| carved and the guest given a gen
| erous slice. He had just come in
| from a round Of golf; his appetite was
| immense, and he made away with
| the slice in no time.
1 Have another piece" he was urged.
| He needed little urging.
| Great" he said.
"Will anybody have another slice?'
i Don't care if | do replied Phil.
Sans family began to be alarmed.
| If that roast was to live UP to the
| usual thing expected of rOasts, it was
| high time it left the table.
! "Anyhody have some more roast?'
| anXiously inquired Sam.
THANK you; don't care if I do" re-
| piled Phil.
Before he had done the roast was
| gone. AS for the weekly budget
| well. budgets can be readjusted,
| that's one good thing about them.
| Speaking of household economies.
| it is always a question of just what
an economy is. Some people save
one way and some another. What to
one family seems an extravaga to
! another appears as necessity. One
persons way of saving strikes the
| next as foolish. SO 1t goes.
| There is one woman in this city
| who saves by lighting used matches
| from the gas stove flame, and using
| lntIn 10 lIPhl duOitlOndl DuTIeTs. III
| stead of using a new match for every
| burner.
| one would imagine that a person
! might save as much as 81 a year by
| this procedure. Perhaps in life
| time the saving might amount to SO.
And yet. if some noted financers are
| to be believed, this is the very way
| to save money and arrive at aft1uence.
| Success by such methods, however.
would seem to depend largely upon
! the thoroughness with which the idea
! is applied to many matters.
! Still turning our attention to the
| household. / know of a man who is
| getting real amusement out of watch
! ing a coffee percolator operate. He
is government official who daily
, handles affairs of moment. 1t might
| embarrass him to give his name. but
1 it makes no difference. Too much
;attention is paid to names in public
| life anyway. 1t is what they do, how
! they treat the people under them, how
! they handle Uncle Sans affairs, that
; counts.
| This gentleman in all his life had
never seen d percolator. Therefore
! its operation, the bubbling of the
coffee up into the glass top. its dis
importance. only to squirt up again.
fascinated him. Perhaps a general
introduction OF percolators into Con-
gress might prove useful and add to
! the gavety of nations Then there
! is man who last week saw his first
! sprig of dill, the anise of Scripture,
still doing duty in the pickle barrel
| CHARLES f. TRACEWELL.