Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1893 — Economy. [ARTICLE]

Economy.

A gifted authoress tells us that it takes a heroine to be economical, for will not many a woman rather run in debt for a bonnet than wear her old one a year behind the mode!— give a ball, and stint the family dinner a month after?—take a large house and furnish handsome recep-tion-rooms, while her household huddle together anyhow? She prefers this a hundred times to stating plainly, by word or manner: "My income is so much a year—l don’t care who knows it—it will not allow me to live beyond a certain rate, it will not keep comfortably both my family and my acquaintances—therefore, excuse my preferring the comfort of my family to the entertainment of my acquaintances. And, society, if you choose to look upon us. you must just take us as we are, without any pretenses of any kind, or you may shut the door and say good-by at once.”