Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1893 — Her Money-Makers. [ARTICLE]

Her Money-Makers.

“Come out and see my money-mak-ers," said a lady living in the country to a friend from town who was visiting her. ‘ These,’’ she continued, as they came to a large and well-appointed hen-house, "are my ‘church hens;’ all I make out of them above expenses is devoted to religious objects. “The geese you see down there on the pond are my ‘poor and needy.’ Down beyond»that wood I keep a number of pigs—‘dress pigs’ I call them, because I buy my dresses out of what I make from them. “Those Alderney cows are my ‘theater and opera cows. ’ I saw four operas last winter out of the profits of one of them. You see that bed of strawberries? Well, we don’t call them strawberries, but ‘shoeberries,’ I buy all the children’s shoes, and my own, 100, out of the income from that strawberry patch. “These and many other little moneymaking schemes I manage myself, without troubling my husband, who works in town for a not very big salary. Consequently we have a great many comforts and luxuries that we couldn’t otherwise have; and, what is more, I thoroughly enjoy the work. ” Do not this lady’s methods suggest a host of little things which other ladles might turn to usejas money-makers, and find health and pleasure in so doing?