The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-15

magic that DIR. Franklin brought
down from the clouds with his kite
and key and Leyden jar?
Elaine: Yes; but, Grandnamma-
the cost
o. B.: All, yes, child. Remember
ing Obadiah and his tight purse
strinRs-though he did indeed allow
me, three tirewomen-1, too, men,
toned the cost to DIR. Franklin.
told him I was surprised that he,
the master Of frugality, could coun-
|tenance expenditures so wild as
those he advised. Listen, grand
daughter Ellen
Elaine: Elaine, please. Grandnam-
ma. s~
Precious Time.
o. B.: Have it your own way. But
pray don't interrupt your elders.
DIR. Franklin said: TIf time be Of
all things the most precious, vast
ing time must be the greatest
prodigality." He told me then that
housewives today have not the
plenitude OF serving wenches had
in my day: and that with all this
there are opportunities in trade and
in commerce and in authorship and
the arts and sciences that we re-
dreamed. Yet he said you short
sighted ones spent your tiipe
precious time-Scrubbing with your
own hands floors and dishes and
clothing that his machines would
do far better. He said: Leisure is
the time for doing something use
full: that time the diligent woman
twill obtain, the lazy never It
was as though, child, he said it
were lazy of you to exhaust your
strength and intellect with these
mental tasks! Oh, I've heard you
long for leisure But hearlen:
hear again what he said: Employ
thy time well. If thou meanest to
gain leisure And this: Lost
time is never found again."
Elaine: Grandmamma Amity - ]
o. b.: Later. child, we win come
/ to that. Hear yet more Of Poor
Richards wisdom: 'tGod helps them
that help themselves. !" DIR. Frank
lin reminded me Of this when he
was showing me the electric range
which cooks by clockwork; without
Goals or wood or fuel. of any kind
better, indeed, than the heating
stove he himself invented SO many
years ago and tried to sell to me
| an would have forsooth had not
Obadiah. as he reminded me, ''but
ted in. the tight-wad, and spoiled
1.-THE saler' And when asked him
Of the cost Of the contraption, he
said, graphically: Waste neither
time nor money, but make the best
use Of both The long and short
Iof it is. child, in my day we women
Ehad to work from sun to sun. even
With all our wenches to help: you
today, can buy with your round
dollars all manner Of devices that
| will do your work for you, an you
Won't. Drive thy business" said
Poor Richard, .'let not that drive
[ thee" Yet does not your house
work drive, you. Ellen?-Elaine, II
you must-lI VOW, when I saw the
wonders of that electric shop,
ached, fairly ached, to come back
from my long sleep and show you
girls of today what fools you are
Slaves, no less, penny wise and
pound foolish! asked DR.. Frank
lin. what it might cost to buy al
the electrical slaves needed to make
easy the ways of one household
mo more" he said, than the cos
of the small horseless carriage.
which every second family Is saw
ing and straining today to buy
And yet, granddaughter, with thi:
appalling amount of housework tt
be done by one pair OF Hands, wher
comes the time to ride in the cart.
Elaine: We've, were hoping t.
get q car very soon. b. r.
Poor Richards Counsel.
| o. B.: Don't 1 know #? Nov
listen to more of Poor Richard
wisdom:. "They that won't b.