WAR ECONOMIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16234, 20 May 1916, Page 5 (Supplement)

WAR ECONOMIES.

While the dogs of war are raving, . we ; arc. urged to make a saving j From the huge colossal wages we hardworking men can show ; | There must he no slavish fashion, nor 1 must ladies excite pa/sion With their fin'ry in the ballrooms as thoy , did >'ot long ago. But. the female heart is burning for the petticoat's returning, Ana . the hkirt is growing wider than ' it ■__ ever was before ; While her wristlet watch is glaring, and her golden bangle flaring, »0»t to illustrate the Profit and the elegance of war. now the Government is pleading we must • banish wasteful feeding, 1 hough the thirteen starving millions are cold and hungry yet ; nile the ballad girl, so tender her pr 0,,.. ~.. .T ) ' let '- song will render— * w 'll keep the home fires burning on . tbe coal I cannot get!" Moth, I hear, is growing dearer, which, g, of course, i fiends the wearer, °* T « the Scot (whose kilt is growing' V . shorter than it was before), * , or > Hi saving, careful Sandy ia a man An* l^P 1 and handy, ■■«•' -'• «. no s P enc ' much on tartan in v s£. ? s: these big braw times o' war. Wo-must flo a little farming, which to '■-tlr ,me " 8 f l u '** alarming, ~ growing- all our leeks and praties, and ' '.ijjyi*! I ,l)aintaui a poultry run; ■■' ; . jSlas' both Jane and Mary have abanAnd .''. arm and dairy, '. -•-...;< *>* piling up munitions at the rising ;' 'X Of the sun. , , *!*' our dreamy legislators are like ' mi VP'"K alligators, "ough they're always keen on doing what M they should have done before!) °; economise ; n chatier is a most immatter, , ' '\ ! W need, ye windy talkers, for there , 'wiy ia a war! ' John G. Peters, Glasgow.