HOW WE SAVED FOR A HOME.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 161, 1 April 1908, Page 3

HOW WE SAVED FOR A HOME.

v Amelia!' ; we'.'could louy we should try : ! ' real hard;"'', .• '. '• ', ■ • - So don't use butter, any ■ more,' we ll spread ' our bread with lard.. V '- •„ J. ■ No more-from roil ted ■ liouseto liouse,. improvident we'll roam' Quick, .put:tho-.furnace fire .out. We're saving for." a. home. '..i. . •-j --' : v . T.would do' us good, both you and me, to get ■ ■■(a' little*, thinner;' - . i.; For" breakfasti.we'- will--eat,'- stale bread,' and .'?.''h'aTo , ''.cbld:/tea^f6r'\dinner.' l -:'.- ; 'ii'>' : ' ; ''.'.''-... j .-, Think' howl'luxunqu'sly' we'll.fare beneath our - paid-for dome.- - ■ \7e'll live on'fifty cents a week while saving * •. for a home. ; - : r. Tou .might'take ; in 'some- washing, wife, and . keep some boarders, too; . • / .' Then do pJain - sewing. :half,' -!the/nighty when "other work; is through: '. .. ■V r No more - vacation days; for - us '.by/:'woods -or X-,- ocean's :f(iam;.H ; ' v A 'v- :;'- No trolley .rides' shall ;take our -dimes.We're \ saving'for a home. . ,:j ; -''.. :v; ■ ' ' '■' '~":y'\ Amelia, you did nobly; dear, you led a frugoli life, And- now -you .lie -beneath :a,>slab .marked "Sacred to my Wife," - And "while .your weary body - rests beneath the churchyard' loam . ; Uly second wife, and-L reside within _ the sayed"for home'. . • ,' •-Elsie Duncan Yale, in "Harper's Bazaar." £ ' - r '" ' - '* "' ' -■'