HOW TO "ECONOMISE." "I think we ought to have someone in to cut up that old tree for logs," said the wife. " Nonsense," replied the husband. " It'll be fine exercise for me. I'll go ont and saw the logs myself." For one half-hour he persisted. The net results were two logs, a broken saw, a pair of trousers scarified by saw! It wits At this point that he went indoom and said: "My dear, after all. 1 think at this time of the year the jobbing gardeners will need work. I'll as'k a man to come round and finish the job." Yes," said the tactless wife. '" and at the same time you might leave those trousers at the tailor's and .see if you can get a new handle, fitted to our only sow. The worst of this war is the way you men will economise."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11670, 10 April 1916, Page 4
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