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Show BORROWING Where Is tho housoKoopor who has not had her patients worn throadbaro by tho borrowing nolghborT I do not mean tho nolghhor who gets In a closo placo nnd calls for a llttlo nsststanco for I supposo most of us havo soon thoso times. I hnvo mysolt I mean tho ono to whom borrowing s nlmoat an hourly practice to whom It scorns tho vltnl broatho; who thinks nnd shows that sho thinks, you a heathen It you rush not to do hor bidding; bid-ding; who tools or scorns to tool that It would ho an Insult to return anything any-thing borrowed, nnd Is caroful nover to insult you. Tho confirmed borrowor novor stops to think what n tax upon a busy housowlto to be constantly called call-ed from hor work, that perhaps taxes her strength to tho utmost, to supply tho deficiencies caused by another's carelessness. Even though nrtlcles borrowed nro promptly roturnod, thero Is still tho double trouble or, first, getting them out and secondly, of putting thom away, but whon a cup or butter, a bowel or Btigar, n row pounds or flour, a half dozon eggs, a spoonful of llnvoring and your favorlto enko tins, nro called for almost dally tho borrower rushes In and doos not hesitate to ask tho loan ot your most precious bolonglngs. I knew n woman who stopped at her neighbor's houso to borrow a ring to wear to town and sho stopped and loft it that night as sho went homo. Nothing escapes a borrowor. It Is a hard matter to dccldo Just whoro to draw tho lino with tho borrowor, especially es-pecially as tho habit llko their habits grows with what It fZTlH tho encroachment u? K JK are made at times soV'ASB almos beroro you a?elu'SB have become a Movn , N ? bor's demand, i ' lV05'.&I tIme8pentInrunntoiPan'W spent In studying n,fl J S''0' 2 H think thoaboUab,8epC?'5B dlo a natural death, RB think that the l,ablluV.(,i!H would like to be sfttl treatment alio Do freely t others, eiy mei otfM "Nolthor n borrcwer n K ho," la good advice and , HtK well to follow It.- m i ?" ould7M |