Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1919 — HER FIRST REAL MONEY [ARTICLE]

HER FIRST REAL MONEY

“This card represents my first real money,” recently said a farmer’s wife, with an odd look of mingled pride, deprecation and something very like triumph. “At home, as a girl, I had no money. Mother bought things for us children with whatever money father gave her. Since I’ve been married it’s been much the same. I’ve got things at the town stores and,, Jim’s paid for them. Even my egg and butter money has gone, as a rule, to help with the household upkeep—turned in on the grocery bill, usually. I’ve never seemed able to hold on to a penny. “But when the War Sayings Stamps came along I said to myself, ‘Here’s your chance, Mary!’ And now I buy War Savings Stamps regularly, take ’em in change as regularly as I sell chickens or cash the creamery check at the bank. I’ve filled several cards already, and I can tell you I gloat over ’em! When those War Savings Stamps mature I’ll have real money of my own.”