Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 251, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1915 — HAD REAL IDEA OF ECONOMY [ARTICLE]

HAD REAL IDEA OF ECONOMY

Jap Explains How Family Was Enabled to Use One Fan Two- or Three Generations. Among the Japanese economy la held to be a high virtue. Two old misers of Tokyo were one day discussing ways and means of saving. ”1 manage to a fan last about twenty years," said one, “and this la my system: I don’t wastefully open the whole fan and wave it carelessly. I open only one section at a time. That Is good for about a year. Then I open the next, and *so on until the fan is eventually used up." “Twenty years for a good fan!” exclaimed the other. “What sinful extravagance! In my family we use a fan for two or three generations, and this Is how we do It: We open the whole fan, but we don’t wear It out by waving It. Oh, no! We hold It still, like this, under our nose, and wave our face!” —Everybody’s.