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Show i He Fears Extravagance. Bills he will pay, because he can glance over these and check items that seem unnecessary or wasteful. But, inasmuch as your father was improvident, ancl you, evidently, spent all the money you made as fast as you made it, he is apprehensive apprehen-sive that things will get out of hand. When he moved into your old home he had a mortgage to handle; his married life began with heavy obligations. obli-gations. It would seem that in so large a house you and your mother might find a source of income that you might rightfully divide as your own. Fitting up an apartment, or taking in children for overnight board are two easy ways of making money, but other very profitable things are being done by housewives today in their own homes. Two old sisters I know weave beautiful table runners in peasant colors; a California family fam-ily is supporting itself making sturdy, rosy-cheeked cloth dolls. Cookies, bread, jams have a big sale in these times, and catering is surprisingly simple when handled in one's own neighborhood. A mother and two daughters here have all they can do at $2 a dinner, delivered hot at any hour. Even with your four children you can find time for one of these activities, or one of a hundred others, and at once save your own pride and lighten your husband's anxieties. |