ECONOMY
TOM—"I've seen the girl I want to marry. I stood behind her at the ticket window this morning and she took seven minutes to buy a five-cent elevated ticket."
ALICE—"Did that make you want to marry her?"
TOM—"Yes, I figured out that she could never spend my income at that rate."
BOOK AGENT—"This book will teach you the way to economize."
THE VICTIM—"That's no good to me. What I need is a book to teach me how to live without economizing."
How oft economy grows gay
And boasts of its efficient work,
When it has merely stopped the pay
Of some two-thousand-dollar clerk!
Little June's father had just returned from the store and was opening up some sheets of sticky fly-paper and placing it about the room. June watched a minute and then burst out with:
"Oh, papa, down at the corner grocery you can get the paper with the flies already caught. They have lots of it in the window."
"Well, Albert, I've been acting on your advice. I put a hundred dollars in the bank this month."
"Fine! It isn't so hard, is it?"
"No; I simply tore up all the bills."—Life.
See also Domestic finance; Thrift.