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Show 0 - THRIFT OF A NEW KIND. Mary was a good wife. Will- w iam was a good husband. But , William was making consider- ably less than John 1). Kocko- ! feller so Mary often had to -t; worry along on less fancy fur- niture and fewer modern kitch- S en appliances than she could use to enhance her homo. So ,J Mary thought of a now system. ! She wanted a nice library lab- y le to take the place of the ar- clinic "center table" in "tho 1 parlor," but fell sure William wouldn't bo able to spare tho ; money. So she said: ;,, "Bill, whenever you coma J home with coppers cents in "i your pocket, iinmi tnom over to me. I Ml put them in a box i and see what they amount to - at the end of six or seven 'U months. Maybe there-11 be en- ough to buy the library table, 'i and you won't miss the money Jt that way." 'M So Bill handed over what- J over cents accumulated in his M pockets for eight months. Ho S never missed them, any more Wm than he missed tbo little is "spending money" he fritter ijj ed away about the town. And w now Man- has a nice library fjL table. H |
