Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1926-02-13
Mrs. W. S. townsend
Discusses Thrift
Interesting Paper Read AT
Meeting Of Woman's Club
Of Worcester County

Discussion by Mrs. w. s. Townsend
sRf Girdletree, Md, at recent meet
mg Of the Woman's Club of Worces-
ter County:
THRIFT IN THE HOME.
"She looketh well to the ways of hel
household, and eateth not the bread
Of idleness. Her children arise and
call her blessed, her husband also am
he praiseth her.-Prov. 31-27; g."
We would do well in the beginning
Of our discussion to study the true
meaning of the word thrift, which
from good authority we learn, means
economical management, or good hus-
bandry.
Fortunate indeed is the person who
mherits the practice of thrift, but
thankful are we that it can be acquir-
Cd by individuals. In just the degree
that is practiced by individuals it
marks the progress of the home, the
nation and the world.
We find through the practice of
thrift we gain confidence and salts
faction, which cannot be acquired by
any other means. M
Women Of today are constantly hav-
ing brought to their attention, the
state Of thrift, in which their grand
mothers lived; and while we would
not, in many instances, go back to
those days, when women were less
educated and more domestic, yet it is
true that there are many lessons Of
thrift which we could learn from the
past.
During the war we were kept busy
carrying out ideas, which would i'm
prove our national life, both physical
" and financially and not the least OF
these ideas was that of thrift.
We had Thrift Drives, Thrift
Stamps, Thrift Week etc., and we
tried to live up to them; but, as in
ether cases, when the reaction came,
We went to the other extreme, until
today we are nation, cursed with too
high living and practising extrava-
gancies in all forms. If we do not
surb our desires and come back to the
simplicity of ideal living, we will
surely suffer in many ways for our
1olly.
No where can this movement be
started so effectively as in the home.
The burden rests heavily on the shout
ders of the homemakers of our ma
ton.
There is no excuse, in this age OF
enlightenment, for ignorance on the
part of wife and mother ,as to what
% best for her family and home and
how to get the best for the least ex-
penditure. We do not have to give
the members Of our household the
things Of highest price in order to
give them the things of greatest val.
ue Let us study their comfort and
welfare ahead Of unnecessary luxuries
and uncomfortable desires.
Let US help them to see the worth
while things of life and to be willing
20 deny themselves the things which
are not worth while.
Just here special emphasis should
be laid on good looks and good music
ANY amount Of either, is never an ex-
Eavagance in the home.
We owe it to our home, our commu-
nifty, our nation and our Maker, wher
We as women take upon ourselves the
vows of wedlock and assume the re.
sponsibility of a home to see that
thrift in every conceivable form il
practised in. that home, as well as
taught to those of the coming genera.
ton who emanate from it.
When we assume the obligations
necessary to becoming a homemaker
we should consider it duty anC