Fun In Economy

"Oh, but economy is .a fascinating theory," exclainied the womau in a tailor frock. "It's alinost as exciting as a lottery ticket or playing the racea. You put in a little aud get out a lot of soruething. I always iead those artieles in the housekeeping papers that teil how you can make a walnut sideboard ont of a pine piano box and cozy corners out of lastyear's chicken coops and catchalls that fill all beholders with envy ont of your oíd overshoes. " ' ' Yes, ' ' agreed said she in the picture hat, "I think those descriptions are perfectly fascinating, and I mean to try some of them when I get a little money ahead. Think of being able to take a lot of oíd packing cases and by means of a lot of plasta and gilding and ornamental tacks being able to transform them uto chairs and bookcases that nobody but your best enoruy could teil froni empire furnilure. " "Don't you believe it, " said the oíd maid. 'Tve tried it. I saved up my broom handles once to make a gypsy table that was described as raaking an ideal tea table. I pnt 47 different coats of stain on thoee broomsticks in an effort to persuade them to become cherry. Then Ihired a carpenter, whoworked two days trying to fit the broomsticka into a cheesebox top so the thingwonld stand up. I bought wadding to pad the top, and feit to cover it, and fringe to go arüund it, and ornamental nails to hold it on. When it was done, I had spent three times what a good table won ld have cost at a shop, but I had a righteous glow of having economized that was worth any money." The woman in the tailor frock laughed. "Ah, my dear, " she said, "we have to pay for everything in this world that is worth having - even economy I" -