Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1879 — Save the Rags. [ARTICLE]

Save the Rags.

“ A penny saved is a penny got,” is a maxim as true as it is old. And there is many a neglected opportunity in almost every household by which pennies that are otherwise allowed to go to waste might be saved to the family. Take the one item of rags. How few housewives think of saving the little scraps of calico, of linen, and the old, worn-out clothes, and selling them to the paper-manu-facturers? Thousands upon thousands of dollars are thus wasted every year that ought to go into the family coffers. If housewives ana their children • and helpmates would carefully save all the rags through the year, and lay aside the receipts from the sales, they would be astonished, when the holidays came around, at the size of the fund accumulated from this source. The recent rapid advance in the price of rags renders it doubly important that the matter should be attended to. If the “gude wife” don’t feel like bothering her head and hands with the matter, then let her encourage the children in the work. It will pay to save the rags. Don’t neglect it