San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-04-27

are you tne famous MT. GOlNcn
has made fortune on the mns-
we cat with our sandwiches?"
o., said the mustard man smil-
Il am the Mr.. Golden who "a.
a fortune on the mustard you
on your plates!"
stard is good example. because
people eat about one fourth Of
hustard to which they carelessly
themselves; but ,h;G is true Of n
many things We do. And il
Fica buys two millions dollars
of mixed mustard yearly. ard
IS two thirds of that musta J..
it is simple that here is a little
site leakage of $1,000. 1888.
hste is a national characteristic
Americans. 1t comes parity
our universal wealth. tnd partly
the inefficiency of the natioi's
ers. Mothers nowadays do not
theii daughters thrift. because
don't know anything about it {;
have had no training themselves.
Fl, afr all, is a !ine art.
It copied with this universal
Z andthis universal wealth it is
ge tofind a great resentment 70
hg it expressed. Whether Tie
bge wnan hates most tn be told
she i,rich Or that she is waste
is a roblem. She knows so lit
bf ecoomic conditions that she
y doesnot think herself rich, and
title q domestic economies that
does pit suppose herself to be
mrare to the rich families dowo
filler treet we may be poor in
our ar a Ford and theirs
&c. GU house seven rooms and
$ sevdeen. our servants one and
$ eigl But compared to the
lards I other nations we are all
"Anrica is country said
I'D EDpean woman to me one
"whe all the peasants are
Ne ha, no peasants" l informed
70 peants! But who CATERS
(wheatand ploughs the fields!'
The m who do that" I explain
fare id far more than you pay
bar clerks, much more than
pay SIr school-teLehers. Women
woi in the fields in America"
e ruinated upon this overnight.
perlbs debated it with the aged
wit the nut-chacker face who
her husband. The next day size
Tut gard this, Madam If your
Intsyour field hands-are paid
! IDS incredible more than n
redfrancs a day. how does it
EN- lat they do not prosper. buv
5 ID buy shops, and cease to
Il others?'
hs :" / said, ''is exactly what
DIDO"
b lat one might behold them
nTo labor in an automobile !.
uested, in n gale of nilarity,
y he hundred" said.
rooded upon thi;' for a long
oked westward vaguely, end
i at the blue sky, perhaps de-
hat she would travel in the
ERECTION far sooner than in the
old woman is typical of hun
of thousands in Europe. She
the four-room cottage to which
sband took her as a bride 81
ago. She has had three sors.
two in the war. The oldest
S two children NV, in the neat
way, and the cid father and
the son and his wife. and the
andchildren live in the four
hese rooms are all the house
pssessions. / daresay some Of
served four or five generations.
dark old chests. tree eporm-
ls-one in the kitchen-tablcs
airs, are the principal furnish
But besides, there is all that
e collection of triflipg rubbish.
Undoubtedly Zulu women col
their huts, and Esquimaux wo-
their igloos. There are holy
), garish and surrounded by
of shells and corks, china
candle-stick, some grasses IL
tiny porcelain toys, dogs and
that our children would toss
fter an hour of two, bits Of
bits of embroidered linen, bits |
shed and repolished glass SOU
pf fairs, post cards from reia-
America.
Kitchen is of course the incest |
with a red-tiled floor, and u
bound the door, and sunshine
hg in over the clean brass pots
secured table. No running |
here-they walk a whole block |
public pump. No light except |
sepe lamp, and that only in |
No fuel but gnsrled roots,
d charcoal.
outside the door is a mother.
DO obligingly supplies the fam
b milk all the year round, |
eese, butter to eat or sell, and |
bally with a young kid 10 stew.
Inside the door are seven chick
leach tree, an almond tree, two
IA gooseberry. a raspberry and
berry vine, the last neatly es-
upon a stretch of mellowed |
and in the ground-such IN
unwilling ground We would
ARE n few potatoes, a few |
II lettuce, n few, onions, car
.nips, green peas.
lndmother's chickens yield her
four eggs upon a particular
berous morning, she may sell
She sells them if she needs
thread, or sale, or any other
IL the household happens TO
3lied with these commodities,
he is a side of bacon hanging
<e beams, and il the blue jar
he stove is half-full of col
at of all sorts, Grandmother
fuses these, eggs to make some
custard or dainty, and the
hood realizes that her family
prospecting. Did she not use
esgs this morning. with eggs
nd a half-cents each?
rnip. no bit of bacon fat, no
reen or spear of wild cress
\ i