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Show - mmm in 4 . sV fc.ni Mrs. Margaret Gaddls of Winona Win-ona Lake, Ind., has attracted national attention In recent months In her campaign for thrift and economy among America's housewives. She says "waste Is a sin against married mar-ried happiness." Rural Housewife Launches Campaign For Thrift, Economy A housewife from a grass roots town in Indiana Is attracting national na-tional attention these davs becausa she practices and proves her preachment that domestic peace of mind and security can come through home thrift and economy. This lady who is telling the old-fashioned old-fashioned story of housewife thrift and economy is Mrs. Margaret Gaddls of Winona Lake, Indiana. In a recent single month she has told her story, by special Invitation, Invita-tion, on five major radio and television tel-evision programs in New York and Washington. She was a guest of Nancy Craig (ABC network), Ilka Chase (CBS-TV) and Ruth Crane (TV) of the Washington Star station sta-tion among others. In these days of mounting crisis and curtailments, tension and taxes, It Is a refreshing theme, one of Interest to the housewives In every grass roots commuclty In the United States, that Mrs. Gaddls preaches. She contends that "waste Is a Bin against married happiness. Mrs. Gaddis' housewife crusade (for it has become that) began of necessity. Winona Lake, like many little communities in rural America, Amer-ica, Is served most of the year by a single store a rural grocery. Unable to shop around for furnishing and clothing re- iiiairmrnis, sue usea ner ingenuity in-genuity and whatever was at hand, aided by "how-to-do" booklets she wrote away for. She learned so mny thrift recipes, short cuts, home repair re-pair and dressmaking "tricks" that she resolved to pass them on to other housewives through a booklet of her own "How to Save $1,000 a Year and Nave Fun Doing It." Mrs. Gaddis is a descendant of Robert Treat Paine, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. She is another example of the housewife house-wife that heads the families liv-lng liv-lng in the rural communities of America. |