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Show m A LITTLE TALK ON THRIFT . Many people in their eagerness to economize econ-omize and save after having been awak- ened to the value of economy, get a warped idea of what thrift really is. To them it is the refusal to spend money for things actually needed or the buying of the very cheapest articles obtainable. Thrift means, among other things, getting full value for your money. This does not mean endeavoring to get a merchant mer-chant to lower the price of an article so that it can be bourht below cost, but it means buying only things that are actually ac-tually needed, and then things of value. We do not get 'value received for our money when webuy foolish, foppish lux-uries lux-uries in tfee way of novelties for the wardrobe, even, if they are cheap. It is no economy to buy a suit of clothes for little mpney and of cheap material. A really good suit, costing a reasonable amount will outwear two or three cheap ones. It never pays a woman, who has only a small sum of money to spend on clothes to buy a suit made in an extreme style, though it may be cheap. A conservatively conser-vatively made suit from good materials will outlast the other kind; it cannot be "dated," and the woman'who wears it will look well always. |