HOW WE SAVED FOR A HOME

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 92, 18 April 1908, Page 6

HOW WE SAVED FOR A HOME

Amelia, we could buy a home, if we should try real hard, So don't use butter any more, we'll spread our bread with lard. No more from rented house to house, improvident we'll roam; Quick, put the furnace fire out; we're saving for N a home. 'Twould do us good, both you and me, to get a little thinner, For breakfast we will eat stale bread, and have cold tea for dinner. Think how luxuriously we'll fare beneath our paid-for dome; We'll live on fifty cents a week while saving for a home. You might take in some washing, wife, and keep some boarders, too; Then do plain sewing, half the night, when other work is through. No more vacation days for us by woods or ocean's foam, No trolly rides shall take our dimes— we're saving for a home. » ■ *, ».- ■ * Amelia, you did nobly, dear, you led a frugal life, And now you lie beneath a slab marked "Sacred to my Wife," And while your weary body rests beneath the churchyard loam, My second wife and I reside within the saved-for home Elsie Duncan Yale,in Harper's Bazaar.