Show THE 11 1 HABIT ABIT 1 OF SAYING MORE TRUTH THAN POETRY IN ELLA WHEELER ADVICE silo scores thoo talio nil rm Their with truck too 31 krucli itch sav jig a ru too much acinto an apt illus trillion lon copyright IM 1603 by american press As association socIaL 1 0 oj W IN B of the first lessons U c vz tau children is the les I 1 J bon of saying their posses ir 0 af keeping books garments gifts tos los and all 11 things which blon belong to them in fact antl anil carefully preserving them from year to year to a certain extent this habit Is a good ono one and embodies tho the old sa saying waste not want not but instead of teaching a 1 child to save everything I 1 think it would bo be wiser visor to teach it to waste nothing thero there is no economy in in saving avery thing indeed I 1 nm am convinced by observation that the habit carried ried beyond a certain limit is a too foe to progress tor to cavo avo ever every thing old I 1 have observed means to accumulate little that is new I 1 have an acquaintance who never wears out or gives away it a ga garment amont sho she keeps all her dresses hats wraps bits of laco lace braid and trimmings when a a dress rm is on out t of fashion she hangs it away in a c or folds it into an old having followed this custom for years and being a lady of me means ans her and trunks are overflow vin g with old eilks s gatins satins ail laces last spring v alien lien the season for new arrived she brought out and ripped lipped lip a dozen old gowns find and then purchased a I 1 now panel for one a new waist for another a bit of trimming to refurbish an old jacket and a new jacket on which to uso use some old trimmin trimmings s tho the result when completed was not gratifying in beauty or economy among the six or eight suits produced by this melange of old and now new not one was fresh or becom becoming inki while the expenditure had been greater than tho the cost of three brand new cos costumes tunics would have boon been I 1 have observed that the people who save old garments in this manner never present a fresh or attractive appearance and they expend more money on their wardrobes thau than others who buy new it is the same in the matter of household possessions I 1 visited an old house some time ago where everything wore a look of decay and ruin having occasion to go into the garret with a member of tho the family I 1 discovered nn an immense pile of rubbish composed of broken old chairs frames of broken mirrors dilapidated washstands wash stands ragged bed quilts which had been carefully washed aar 1 laid awny awn yAnd lind gnetty imil ov A chest in one corner was filled torn books which had biad neither beginning nor end photographs from which tho heads had been torn a broken backed and do geared album half sheets of music and pasteboard boxes some without covers and other covers without boxes for what in the world aro are you saying saving ng all this rubbish I 1 queried why dont you yon sell the rusty stove for ola old iron and the bed quilts to the ragman and make a bonfire of the contents content of this his chest the tha lady lifted her hands in protestation oh you destructive creature she ho cried all these things ruay may come handy bandy somo some day I 1 always believed in saying saving everything these rasto pasteboard board boxes for instance are handy in case you yon want to send away a photograph and tho the old bed quilts would bo be just the thing to smother flames with in caso case of fire there is nothing a like economy you know but this is not economy I 1 insisted were you to sell all this rubbish to the ragman and the old iron man it would bring you yon money enough to buy all the photograph envelopes you on desire with ready mado made pasteboard backs and hand grenades with which to extinguish fire 1 I never heard of those things thinas lahe eho aid no I 1 replied people who have a mania mama for accumulating old truck never ilo do keep up with the times if the mown haywerd bay were left to cumber the ibe field fied no aiu vi wr BIESS could grow anil the hisses auses which oro ore cumbered cambered cumb ered withold with old ru bluith be seem bill never io to be re furnished and decorated the mind which is bent on saving a lot of useless and shabby old things becomes shabby and useless itself idec lt it becomes incan incapacitated agitated acita ted axom earning and procuring the now and use useful I 1 lull I 1 once heard a housekeeper 0 of f a c country homo home complain that she had no room in the pantry to properly place her paris pans and dishes I 1 remarked to her that the two upper shelves were loaded with old medicine bottles empty pillboxes pill boxes broken flatirons and teapots and that silo she had better dig a hole in the ground and bury tho the whole moss mess leaving room for her necessary articles cut but she declared herself to bo be too saving to perform such an act empty bottles often are handy she said and I 1 intend to have the flatirons and teapots mended some day but you never will mill I 1 said eaid tco plo who get in the habit of saving broken trash never get it mended and you will never need more than two bottles out of that score you would bo be able to think more clearly and your mind would woula not become so tired over your work it if you hall had these two shelves cleaned off unconsciously to yourself their cluttered condition and tho the way you yon are obliged to crowd things in consequence tax your mental powers 1 I once knew a man who spent hours in picking up and straightening out bent pins pm ile he exhibited with arido n ft cushion filled with the pins ping which lie ho hall had 1 rescued from all ignominious fate but ho be wag wa ablo to support port his wife and camill eimil fi mil ord and ilia his lifo life despite his big no movements with the pins wasa pitiful failure A child 0 ought igat to discriminate in eliat debould bp cavad to give apayor away or tell outgrown garmendi ga to mend or destroy a broken object and to burn or put in tho the rag magbag ragbag bag soiled soi leil frayed tray eil rigged odds anil and ends that can lie bo of no possible use to iring laking or country old and useless objects jefin mean old and useless thoughts ragged wid and broken objects mean ragged and broken clothes presses and boxes cumbered cambered cumb ered with rubbish rubus US it cause the mind also to be cumbered cambered cumb ered and crippled in its powers of achievement in the line ot of progress too much sav baving ing is us its ballas bad as waste ELLA alil ELER allcox |