Show FAMILY LIVES ON A MONTH Are Ae Americans in their bonier who Kathleen Norris anI an- an through Europe lI liar r traveled I and makes I irs in the I this statement I 1 The ThO poorest woman I ever Danish America with a kIll In i i in widow with three children who ed Connecticut farm tired red on oil a tiny liny Hr allowance a seamans seaman's pen pen- pension was Ion sion was a year ear and she managed n well welt on ott that But Dut near be he little French town towo of ot iI Frenchwomen mother I met two both widows with and daughter ho he latter's hatters two baby boys to lo also alse and the younger pensIon was all an they had had-a had a lit le dollars a seventy five is Ie less than ear ar And they lived beautifully Pointing out that American 18 1 scorn tolse to use lse tood toO food scraps scraps that would gladly be bo u used ed by Eu En i Eu women Mrs Mra NorrIs con con- con river rier of ot cans eans a and d The boxes pours Into Into- tho ho of AmerIcans the river river- waste ute pours out out And all i the the lime ume she tells you 01 that she can can- cannot cannot cannot doser closer not cut things down donn any Americans than hian they are now to spend nave nae much more money than Europeans the writer says sas the Eu Eu- European European European and nd nd buy things of which which- housewife never dreams the The difference nce between Danish farm wife In la Connecticut and the little tittle family In France 1111 write continues was partly elm chit the first was doing a a thin thing almost almos country living ott on 50 a m month nth only what and others were doing doine mothers mother and had done before them and what all their thell neighbors ere vere doing as asa asa asa a matter ot f C coulse course Mrs may be wrong Int In t at that not many families tn In n the he ho United States live on 50 right In point point- pointing a month but she Is right lug ing to the 75 75 a year as some some- hing unheard of o in America This count count count- I if it were ere to suddenly as thrifty as In Europe woul would l be thrown into a panic which would affect every factory and retail mail shop and bring adversIty adversity ity Hy Economy Is the way to sue suc s success c ces cess for tor th the individual but for country as ax a holo holo there be tree reI spending to leep I ac wheels of Industry With machinery producing In ever ing tag consumption S keep lp pace i I I I |