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Did you ovor plan and figure liow
you would economize
Till you trnved a payment on a
houao and lot?
Did you ever scheme and dream of
how bully it would seem
Just to own a little home and
garden plot?
Sure you havo! But when you start
ed out to save a little bit
Didn't you observe the trusts wer.e
quickly wiso
To the fact and quickly act till your
pay check they had cracked
Making you pay prices hoisted to
tho skies?
Did you ever plan a journey to the1
scones of youthful days
And pay out just how to meet the
small expense?
Did you over say "Today I will save
somo of my pay,
Even though it is no more than
fifty cents?"
Suro you have! But ero you salted
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Somo protected "infant" scented it
afar,
And by simple twist of wrist had
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And will lay aside each week a
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Did you evor get there yet without
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t Ovor food and clothing bills that
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Suro you have! But ere your bank
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sldo
Or a fortnight had gone gliding
o'or your head,
Tighter grew tho screw and you were
mado sad and mighty blue
By a notice: "Your account 'is in
tho red."
Did you ovor have it figured how
next month you could start out
Even with the world and wholly
out of debt?
Did you ever grin and spin out the
story grown so thin
Of how you would save a lot of
monoy yet?
Suro you have! You're not the only
dreamer of such sunny dreams
Every ono of us has played the
part of chump
To awaken much mistaken with our
nerves wrought up and shaken
By the way the trusts have given
us the bump.
From Sunny North Carolina
Nebraska has had a genuine win
tor this trip, it has been a remind
er of the old times and to it is due
tho Architect's recent remarks con
corning tho frigidity of tho old-fashioned
"spare bedroom." And the
story of that "spare bedroom" seems
to have touched a responsive chord
for from Catherine Lake, in sunny
lotto?- Carolina' comes th following
iJiYUr, ?escriPtion of the 'spare
bedroom' is worth the price of The
Commoner for a year. I am near 70
years old and I do not remember any
one article that has stirred my soul
with a mingling of mirth and sym
pathy as that one did. It is nJw
about two weeks since I read it and
I am still laughing, and crying to
tho good Lord to temper the wind to
tho shorn lamb, and singing:
" 'Hero's o tho land of tho long-
-leaf pine,
Where the flowers bloom and the sun
doth shine;
Where tho weak grow strong and
the strong grow great
Hero's to the land of the old North
State!'
"I have had lots of experience
with the 'spare bedrooms' in eastern
North Carolina with the mercury
registering 20 degrees above zero,
and when I stretch my imagination
to a land where it is 20 below I just
can't hold myself. If you had said
yew slipped in between those sheets
and froze to death, and remained
there until you thawed out about
noon the next day, then only mercy
could have availed to save me. But
when your picture persists in show
ing itself to my mind's eye, your
knees doubled up under your chin
and the enamel flying from your
chattering teeth like sparks from an
anvil, I cry again, and with all my
soul: 'Lord, temper the wind to the
shorn lamh!' This is written on Jan
uary 11. Wife's geraniums are in
full bloom on the front porch, and
the thermometer registers 52 above
zero.
H. D. M."
Thanks, awfully! Bu,t if we have
suffered in the "spare bedroom" we
have also enjoyed it.. Once in a
while a thoughtful hostess would
take a hot fiatiron and iron the sheet
until it was good and warm, taking
good care to perform the act just
before we were shown to bed. By
the time the Architect's clothes were
off the gooseflesh would be sticking
out all over him like bumps on a
wart hog, and his teeth clicking like
the "bones" of an end man in a min
strel show. But, say! It was worth
it all to jump into the bed between
those warm ironed sheets and just
lie there and thaw out gradually; to
lie there and feel the gentle warmth
percolating through to the very bones
of you, and glide sweetly and gently
off into slumberland.
The Architect has often planned
out just the people he will build
monuments to when he gets the mon
ey. Among the first to whom he
will build manuments of bronze and
granite will be those dear, old-fashioned,
whole-hearted hostesses who,
in the dead of winter, thoughtfully
passed a red-hot fiatiron to and fro
over the sheets of the "spare bed
room" before ushering the guest
thereto.
Impudent
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i HTie?igefu!ili: d01l,t' know un"
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him pay about a half a dolla'r a day
more for living expenses."
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