HOW TO LIVE THRIFTILY.

Evening Star, Issue 16778, 5 July 1918, Page 8

HOW TO LIVE THRIFTILY.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—Having read with interest on how to live thriftily, I would like to say that 1 never kept books in my life, nor my mother before me, being brought up in tho good old way of “Waste not, want not.” Every sinking being well spent, there was no need, and I have never wanted for anything reasonable yet. My mother's parting words were .- “Whatever you do, don t stint the- food, 1 have done rny best to live up to that, and I have no regrets.” The -pay and allowances are much better now than thov were when I started with them two and" a-half years ago, and I have four sturdv kiddies (ages 3 to 12 years) wno can take their food. I wonder if “A Soldier’s Mother has ever stopped to think of the time when the soldier will como homo to his wife and children, perhaps looking well, but, whose health may break down m the course of a few years through tho strain ho has undergone, and it's bound to tell. Ho will perhaps leave his wife and children to the tender mercies of this not too aencrous world. The wife will get no pension. If she has not managed to c-ave a little —and that she cannot do if -he is cut down to tho bare shilling, us “A Soldier's Mother” would like to see—sho will be struggling on to roar her little ones while “A Soldier’s Mother and a few others will be resting in comfort, smilintr with sweet content. I am, etc., ”Vife of Soldier Still at the Ehont. July 5.