Show LESSON IN conservation by CAROLYN SHERWIN DAILEY BAILEY ono one of tile ho greatest of tho the good it impulses horn born of the recent struggle la the ideal of thrift and conservation that hint it Is to tile children of Ain american erlean homes without feeling tho the pinch of actual want they are learn lug ing tile useful game of milking making tile brat best abid tile most of things new mew values uro tire being discovered economy 1 la no longer looked down upon hut but I 1 la malsed to the level of nn nil art find simple living la is going to make heal ilider hailles rind and stron stronger Ber minds ilila i for tile children who will bo be the citi citizens zerus ot 09 fro freedom edoin help ilia lio children through it a story to work out n plan of oi flint will fit 11 their own on lives whitt want on lila ilia own phille call a little child to do without share or put to it w wider id er paol use tile the story of the birthada y cuke cake buckets food economy and litter tile tho children have heard it they may illethe their heir own application of tho the lesson lit in other oher homo home flee it will ha need four eggs ege and ml it i cupful of sugar augur and some milk and some hour flour mother sold us its she elio went to the pantry to ret get alio lie yellow mixing bowl anti tho the sifter to ninke barbaras barut lay day cake it needs sugar too for ilia rost lug ing and please make very thick frosting mother dear barbara egged begged sho was standing beside tile tho kitchen fiction table watching for she was going to be six yeara old in just a taw few it ans to lo ila 10 tier her birthday cake rich anti sweet unit and shining on tile supper table with six pink lighted cand candles candled lem plan to be saving 1 I nin mil afraid that tile tho cake and the frosting together will use tea up nil all our sugar mother said ns as sho she caillo back 1 I wonder sho went on oil with just a little bit of worry lit in tier her vol voice ce if wo could manage with two eggs instead ol of four cost so BO much now well wo we juico to mako make a birthday sake ake dont wo we mother because I 1 ill always cut it anti and share it barbara said mother looked down in ili bar paras barns kind little face and aho thought a ii moment too was tile wonderful part about mother find barbara they so often thought tile sallie things then they said bald something to each other laughed Inu glied and hugged each other and mother put awny away tile tho big yellow mixing bowl and lour flour sifter bitter tho the next apy was barbaras Bur baras birthday and two people who lave birthdays had timothy whose mother afi tho the washing had been very lit for a long time ila ho was getting better and could sit in tho the big rocking chair all wrapped up tip in a quilt nud try to smile out through tho the window when barbara passed barbara stopped at timothyy Timo thys door on tile tho morning of her arr birthday she lind n basket on her arm bile bho took from it a bottlo bottle of creamy milk and n bag that held four white eggs agga hero la Is it part of my birthday cake for or you timothy barbain sold it will make anka you got get well foster faster granny blako blake was just putting her ten tea kettle on tier her stove when sho oho heard a n knock at tho the door of tier her little house when she bho opened it she blie saw barbara who loved granny blake so BO much no one could make such nice bilco i raff tig dolls its as granny and she wits was always cheerful and stalling even when she oho lind hardly enough coats to wake inako her kettle boll making others happy barbara stilt carried tier her basket an and I 1 she he took a package of sugar and a n freshly linked baked loaf of wheat bread out of it here Is a part of my birthday cako cake for you dear granny barbara said this Is sugar for your tea and mother made tho the flour into a loaf ion of bread for you to eat with it then barbara went homo home almost as happy as if she tied had eaten a largo of frosted birthday cake but when tho the day was almost over and it grew oak barbara began to wish that flo could seo sea the mr pink lighted candles shining tor for iter her birthday she bile went vent slowly in to supper thinking of them and oh what a surprise site she found there 1 in a rosy circle in the middle of tile table shone six els pill pink lighted candles tea set in six pink rosebud hol holders derli in ili the alio center of this birthday circle of lot lights van a bowl that held six beautiful pink roses rosen and beside barbaras plate was ans a parcel wrapped in pink tissue paper when barbara mew blew out the candles and opened the parcel she fonna a pink hair ribbon for ft a birthday present what a beautiful birthday ill this s has been mother DO said without a birthday cake 1 |