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Show THE STORY OF A WOMAN: - ECONOMY 1 CHE bed rooms of the house stood I badly in need of repainting Their once white surfaces were disfigured with many a grimy j mark which greatly distressed the soul : of the mistress of the mansion and so ,6he summoned a painter-man. "How much to paint them all?" she j asked him. "Forty dollars," answered the paint-' j cr-man after a fow minutes of calcula-i calcula-i tioo "How many coats for that?" ahe 1 Inquired cannily. "Two of paint and one of enamel." : replied tho authority on such matters. "1 will communicate with you if i' decide to havo it done," the woman ' i told him and bade him good-bye. "I will do the work myself," she ln-formed ln-formed her husband, "we must econo-: econo-: mize " And at this that creature laughed I derisively "The idea." he said, and ; "what nonsense. Don't wasto time i and paint experimenting." Whereupon the woman gave him a look of scorn and went to a palntshop I where sho asked for white paint j j proper for Inside work and for the enamel to go with lt She paid $5 a i gallon for the paint and $1 50 a quart ! for the enamel. Then she bought a, ; broad brush for stxty-fie cents and , ordered a quart of turpentine to be I 'sent homo with these thlncs In nrn I the store stir the Hour Into this, add I tho seasoning, and after allowing tho I mixture to cook for a few minutes, the cold milk. This makes a smooth and delicious sauce. That the shops are making housekeeping house-keeping easier and easier all the time, j Now, for instance, the busy house-' house-' keeper may buy an Ironing board cover, padding and all, ready to be j ! wrapped about the board. It is fitted , along its back edges with little metal hooks like those at the top of a boy's laced boots, and by these It Is laced into position and may be made to fit jany board Its price Is fifty cents, j That there Is a brush for everything I these days. For vases, for silver, for cups, for drains, for sieves, for pans, j ! for the sink. A colloctlon which may ! be had on a metal tray, each nicely labelled so that there can be no mis-j mis-j take about the use for which it is ln- tended, is priced $2. That It is reported, though she does ! not guarantee It, that the delicate pink batiste blouses, now so much in vogue, may be laundered and laundered and still retain their pinkness, If a drop or I two of red Ink Is put In the water in , which they aro rinsed. aratlon for her labors she had had her -maid wash all the paints in the bed rooms and this done she was ready to begin. Painting she found an exhilarating exhilar-ating sport. It was great fun to dip the brush in the nice white paint and ' watch a discolored surface become of virgin freshness under its movement She had to overcome a tendency to use too much paint on her brush but when she had learned to drain It prop-rig prop-rig so that there would bo no drip ' the rest was easy. She did one room St a time, putting on two coats of the paint and one of the onamel. When the first bed room was fin- ! ished she led her husband to it ; triumphantly. "How." said he. "there are cracks in the door Jambs, A real ! painter would have filled those with putty and painted over thm." "What a mere house-painter can do so can I." said the woman, and forthwith forth-with ordered ten cents worth of putty and a putty knife. Shrlnklngly she worked up tho putty with turpentine until It was soft, and then with some dlfllculty filled the cracks in tho door frames and painted over thorn, and made a good Job of it too. In eight working days she had completed the painting of threo bed rooms and a bath room, and the entire cost for materials ma-terials was about eight dollars. 8bo found the enamel a little difficult diffi-cult to put on but by dint of keeping It thin with turpentine and after a few minutes of practice sho got the knack and It was soon flowing from her brusb evnly and oaslly. When the work was quite finished IH sha spok to her husband. "Now," said she, "I have saved at least thirty-two thirty-two dollar which is great economy. J and so I am going to have the fan- shaped trellis for my roses that Vwm Sho Found PoJnUug An xbJlaiutiny isport. 1 been wanting so long." "And how much will that cost?" In- ' I , quired her husband, with what Togo i would call agitated eyebrows, p "Oh, not more than fifty dollars," f answered his wife carelessly. T |