HOW'WE SAVED FOR A HOME.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11248, 11 April 1908, Page 3 (Supplement)

HOW 'WE SAVED FOR A HOME.

A,mejia, we could buy £t home/ i t \Ve y should try real hard, ', ■ . • • So don't use • butter any nftiffc, • we'll spread bur Bread \Vith lard. ;V. No more from rented hbuso to lwuse, improvident Wll roana ; • ' Quick, ..' put the furnace fire out ; we're saying for. a homer - , 'Twould do us good, b6th you. and me, to get a' little. thinner,. : , : For breakfast we wiUeat stale bread, and haye -cold HeavYf Or -dinner. Thing how luxuriously ..we^ll f,are...Joeneath .our jiaidi-.for rdom&i ;i» ' " : We'll live on fifty cents a week while saving for ;a. home. , „,-v. . . • You;.mig)it. take iii some. .washing, wife, , and keep some bbardevs,. .tooJA i, V Then . do phiih ie.wing , : half the night, when' other work is lUrongh. ..,.,'. No l'norfe vacation days i fbr v . us by. woods or ocean's foam, . • ;..■''• . : . No trolly .rifles chall , take ouf . dinißs— we're saving for a. horne r ". ; , ■ ' '' *. . * ..■ ■ ".*,. . '*.' , ! ..J"*- .-.„.'■ : Amelia", ybii; did nobly, dear,' ypu. led a frugal life,.' ' :J- :, ' And now yi>u lay N lieneath a slab marked "Sacred to my Wife!" • Anil while your weary body rests beneath. the churchyard! loam, \-'.'. My second wife and I reside within the sav'ed;fbr horns. .; .: — ; Elsie Diincan Yale,s m -Harpers Bazaar. | ::f^^-'THEmuLlfepAssiON^::/; 4 : Two Women leaned over " the bhckyiird .•■ fence' •" .■ •:■;■ •■ • ' : "' ■'. . ■. ; '-' ;-. . '*■•'' (The same old ferjeci) as the' stin went down, ■- ;."•: While /each told the other, iri L eonfid- '• -'-fence,-'.' ..< •■ ' ■■■■ % ■-,■'■; ■? . - v ; j ■ The scftndrtls she'd gathered about, the towhi t '■•■ ; For women .jnust gossip, ;<>r they- caft^t sleep; ~ _ v~ '„-.•.'-. They- 'think that secrets weren't- >nia.d4 to keep; •, ; ■,; ■. So' they lean on the fence m the gloanling. ■■'■'■*■ V ■ ;,? Two women leaned over 'the garden : g*te> r . ■ '..■- ■:. ■■". >.:■'?' '/'x-) In the evening /glow "• as the sun wfent down ; : ' v^ : They Wondered what made their- g- ? hu ;- bandfe -'so ' lflte'j '. > And they sheared at the mjhister's .Wife's hew "gown. " . . '.';...■: For women, delight m a., friendly chat, , Without it their lives would be stale . ".'. and flat; - : -.' "-; v -i .i r '-\ _:' /' So they lean oh the gate iri the ; ' gloahung/ -. . ■.-■•;■;';'/'..' V Two husbands came home frdm golfing game . r "~;. ': ■: (Front the dflice, -'they said) .is (\\k> &pn ;■'■' AVeht 'down, ■ >i ,: ■ Both, ready and cagei* to. hear the santo Sweet scafidais tueir wives had hunted down. ■ ' i For ; men r though they work, ! love gos- - Sip tOO— "i . • •■■' . .'■••■ ■':!" .:.;>•:• And that's why, .their wives seek sotne- : thing new / :;~ ■.-.'. Ast they meet andl talk .m the'---gloom- ■'■' in S- ■ - : -. - — : ■'" ■

DOING HIS BEST. Patient r "What would you think of a warm ciimh.te> » .foi> me^'^r. JDocto^ : That's " ■ juistAyhiit;i'nii. frying to-, save you fromi'^Catbolic Denver^