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Show ARE YOU THRIFTY? Thrift is saving a dime by shining your own shoes. It is sending a telegram tele-gram only when somebody is dead. It is having the old dress dyed a different dif-ferent color and brightening it up with a girdle of a contrasting shade. It is buying shoes that were the style last year. It is resisting the temptation to have somebody clean your motor and doing it yourself. It is using only one match to light four candles. It is having hav-ing the old felt cleaned and reblocked and getting your wife to take the spots off your neckties so that they will do until Christmas. it is waiting lor movies to reach the second-run house. It is turning out all the electric lights except those that are being used. It is having one kind of soap for the family and another an-other soap for guests. It is buying tooth paste by the gross and making one tooth brush last a year. It is writing one letter to Aunt Susie and having the other members of the family fam-ily add postscripts. Thrift is, in short watching the pennies so carefully that you are enabled en-abled to live within your income with a little to spare and thus can afford such luxuries as taxes, charities, miscellaneous mis-cellaneous contributoins and investments invest-ments that do not turn out so well. Baltimore Sun. |