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Show I Dorothy Dix Talks j THE ECONOMY SHOP fiy DOROTHY DIX, the Woriij's Highest Paid Worno Writer I m When many a woman dea no. ko- I , op before the Judginrnt bar. tdic U B K"lnir to be condemned btCSUM sh H has sinned the sin of th" Attic and HI ' In the particular hell to which fthe H HHj assigned hn will ba lormennd l the HHj imp ih- 'lunK- th.1 H 1' hl nn senselessly hoarded. H She will be ilampcd upon, and walk- HHJ upon. iiikI kicked about bj h -ho-s that she has let moulder and rot HHJ while the feet of her neighbor WOTC upon the ground BHH She In going 'o he fmoihi rca UAde Httfl 'he ma It r ease a that xhe let decS) iniie Bfl the old women turned ih r v. eery old HHJ ; bodies at nlciit on hard bed. HHJ 1 8h Ik Koine to c pinched l tho HHj bed springs that nhe wi rut out while HHJ her luundrem had nothing i.ut a hard to lie H She to gi r . J ln In the bitter roid while ttfej stacks j H of warm dfSSSea and OVgrcbate, and) HHj In her ear she will beat .! le.a-, J the of new-born babes with-1 HHj OUt a rag to cover Ihem wiiiir trunks f"H of the little clothes of her own HHj children slowly fail into dun before HHH Sh will be haunted t the Wistful facet 01 little hiidren "ho reach out, Ii ! muni inr i ne io'm Mini only iim rats played with in her garret And after aeons of years of this torture perhaps; th woman who bee (fined the ln of the Attic will have expiated her dime, and get another hanci it life. I'eih.ip.i it ami women who sinned the in of the gttli In come previouH Incarnation who devised the scheme thai vhi calls the Economy Shop, which la a sort of double-barrel-1 ed philanthropy that hits both the attic at-tic and the hlKh cohI of lllll,-That lllll,-That 1 do not know, hut I do Know thai the Bconoroj Shop w one -f the cleverest, most practical and efflclenl wajU ol solving a numlicr of problems, thai has ever been devised The woman with th" Kronomv Shop Idcasjivea in a little mid-Western town "i maul wun uiuurana iinapuania. Hb is rich and social!) Important, .md posseted of Rrwt executive ability! nd .-h. put her big scheme into oper- ' 1 n by taking a small ston nous . In, Inviting ascertain number ( girl- to come and be clerics for her, and taking tak-ing ull of her friends tQ seed into the storehouse anything thai the) I ad ib..-they ib..-they didn't want, from a white elephant ele-phant to a peck of potatdel Nothing is too big cr too little to find a place in the econoim- store. It would, with equal gratitude, a grapt! piano or a single cup and saucer : hag proved a bodn to housewives who for the firt lime in years have been able to clean iheir a i ties, because be-j fore lh did not know what to do! 'with th- junk that had accumulated Their conscience would no: allow them to throw K'lod furniture Into fire, nor cast w ,r .!. rarm nt- into the gar-, gar-, I'.igc can. and yet they Knew personally person-ally no one to whom thev could gl' j these things. Now the- send them to the economy shop where they are sold for a mere pittance and where they meet a Jong-fdi Jong-fdi w.nit. beoaiiee tht go to that mid-iddle mid-iddle elaan of people, the small salaried people, who arc being ground to pow-,d'-r betweefl the profited above intra 1 and below them. Theae people, the genteel poor, would Starve and freeze rather than take charity, hut they can supply their needs at the Kconomy Shop, and save their money, and their pride At the Kconomy Shop one may bu odd dlchea for ten cents a piece, a hat, for a dollar, that with a little furbishing furbish-ing ix as ood as it was when u coet twenty-five or thins dollars. Even kind of a drcKs. from a bungalow apron ap-ron lo an Imported ball drees at pri . M that are a fraetlo- of what was origin-j all) paid for them; thre nea novels for u dollar, magazines for tie cents i piece, and shoos that perhaps need a' little cobbling to make them as rood as new. for twenty-five cents t.. ;i dollar dol-lar and so on. Ami there's ever conceivable think In the shop, from quilt pieces up and .down, for It la a clearing lytusc lor domestic undesirables on one hand' as i. is .. -our. c- ..i sopply for th. millions mil-lions of things that other peoph I (and want on the othe, bind .lor--,oer. It has foster. . I :, beautiful splri in those who Klv-. It tigs made the woman "ho has much realise her sisterhood sis-terhood with tlo- woman who has little, and so the women who give do not Just jump down Wielr things in the .--tore ans obi way. Tndy ha vi- go I so that rhev lak the iroubie to freshen up a dress by putting put-ting i.n nea collars and quffs, of . leaning lean-ing or pressing It and ma kin it look i.itt. r. because thev realise how much more vaiue p will have in the eyea ff the woman who buys H. The Econom Shop ha- been .i par- licuuii uieaaing in ;.oi mothers enth fmany children because it his furnlsii-ed furnlsii-ed them at the least DOTSlbla cost with qiluhtlty of ready-made clothes ror their young onea and with shoes of al quality that they could never hope to bu- in an open shop. All of the women connected with the Rconom" Shop "iv their pcrvices, gndJ i- is so auoceeaful financial fv that for In.- past two ' ears it b.i: b ated mor than a thousand dollars a month. This nionpv Is divided betWCl n llirec different differ-ent charities which p VjrtUalij sup-pnrts. sup-pnrts. thus relieving the neoplo of the town from any furtln r .i" upon Lliclr charity, The Economy Shop ia a great Idea. 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