Mrs. B. What a pretty waist! Did you buy it ready made?
Mrs. J. New! No indeed! I made that out of last year’s and the one before that pieced together. John has read an article about how you can make nice dresses out of stuff you have in the rag bag, so he says I’m just as smart as the woman that wrote that article, and he wanted me to try it. (sits).
Mrs. Banks. Well, William did say something about that to me, so I suppose he read the same article, so I said all right, but I’d have to economize on him too. I’d cut off the tops of his socks for wristlets for cold weather, and I’d make neckties out of Mildred’s hairbows for him, and I’d try to make over his old frock coat into a sack coat to wear to the store on week days, so that silenced him all right!
Mrs. Jenkins. There’s really no reason for economy being an exclusively feminine virtue.
Mrs. B. (Taking up several of the articles from the pile of clothing). These things look as if somebody had been economizing all right.
Mrs. J. (placing newspaper carefully in the bottom of the box). Suppose we get busy now and pack the box.
Mrs. B. (doubtfully). I don’t believe any of the others are coming.
Mrs. J. Emmeline Miller told me she couldn’t come on account of domestic affliction.
Mrs. B. (surprised). How terrible! What was it?
Mrs. J. Her husband’s mother and two aunts have come to spend a week, and Emmeline said if that wasn’t domestic affliction she didn’t know what was!