Life — March 5, 1908 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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*LPPEs Past Due Society Notes “Sy [HE report that Owen Moore has taken a job has not been verified. NS) The Notso-Riches have ceased wor. on their new three-billion- dollar mansion near Oyster Bay. The Lawson-Stocks have decided to make their last summer’s touring-car do for another season. ‘The Down-and-Out Club has been reorganized and will give several entertainments at Child’s during the winter. Mark Down has disappeared from his accustomed haunts in Wall Street. It is feared that he has been foully dealt with, Mr. E. Conner Myse will not go to Florida this winter. His health will not permit him to travel so far. ¥ Miss Fortune Cuttenhaf has decided to become a trained nurse. The Cuttenhafs formerly had a great deal of money. Mr. Goodwin Orr-Werk, whose daughter, Mary Orr-Werk, was recently married to Mr. Fillmore Banks, has removed from Parlor B at the Waldorf to the servants’ quarters. The smart set is looking forward with great interest to the coming se Deela Hardblow, daughter of Otis A. Hardblow, to Willie y Additional Points on Thrift Mr. Les. Wadsworth and family have just returned from abroad After Hearing a Lecture to East Side Women on on the Losepanic. For reasons not stated, they came home y, Economical Housekeeping three years sooner than they expected to. THe lecturer advocated for a family of six this Eusta Splurge, it is understood, has withdrawn her bid division of the income (if there is any): $182.52 for Count Meout. It is denied that the financial strin- ‘ for food, $84 for rent (to us), $16.31 for fuel and gency has anything to do with this action, as the light, and $102.71 for clothes, leaving $58.83 as a Splurges still have money. reserve in the bank, and $23.23 for spending money Mr. Ben Stungsom has announced that, in (car-fares, champagne, hair-pins and cigars). order to encourage home industries, only The great thing to teach is the use of ‘“left-overs” from domestic cigars and American champagne Vi, yesterday’s meals. The poor seldom know what dainty “made” will be served at the forthcoming dishes can be prepared if they will only send part of the food coming-out party of his beautiful from the table untouched each day. Furthermore, if they could daughter, Mabie Stungsom. once be taught to buy in large quantities and so avoid waste, a Ellis O. Jones, dollar and a half aday should prove ample to support a wife and four children. The lecturer was really too liberal in her allowance for food. Surely, fifty cents a year might be saved by only half boiling the oatmeal, which makes it go further. Certainly, fifty cents a day is ample to provide an abundant and varied diet for a family of six! We must not let our hearts run away with our heads, and encourage the poor to extravagance. Sixteen dollars and thirty-one cents a year for fuel and light is sheer waste. If the poor would go to bed in the dark as soon as they reach home from work, they would need neither light nor fuel, and by going without supper they would save on the food account also. The excellent philanthropic ladies have entirely neglected the economy that might be accomplished in the dress of the children. If the children went nearly naked, it would prevent the growth of vanity and discontent in that station in life to which monopoly has ordained them. As for the father and mother, they could make comfortable and really stylish garments out of second- hand gunny sacking. We have scen tailor-made gowns of Worth’s made of equally rough material. Bolton Hall. A Case for Sympathy IRST SUBURBANITE: Did you attend the indignation mecting of the commuters last night? G-MACHINE THAT SEcoND SuBURBANITE: No; I’m too sorry for the railroad. Why, I would DOESN'T MIND A HEAD WIND just as soon hold an indignation meeting over a deaf, dumb and blind man. comicbooks.com