told “save a thing 20 years and you’ll find

told “save a thing 20 years and you’ll find use for .it/* and despite aur common' sense, we try it. *

Of course, antique collectors would have a hard time of it today making a living if all our great-grandparents had enjoyed enjoyed prolific and thorough house-eleanings. ^Museums would be empty, too, if grandma had thrown out everything except that which was useful at the time. But, then, grandma had a nice, roomy attic and a big duttered-up cellar to use, as well as several old woodjsheds and she didn’t have to use all the space in her house.

If you want to get an example of how much we save, and how little we ruthlessly throw away, jgo ■ to an auction sale, especially onewhere they are settling up an' estate. You’ll find all the old school book# used—including the Latin grammars and the obsolete geographies—carefully occupying shelves in the bookcases. You’ll find an oddsandj-encts box into which were dumped three rollers for a piece of furniture when the fourth one broke and rendered the set useless ;~*bne drawer pull, to match nothing; a paint brush with stiff bristles, what few are left;- can tops, and no cans they fit; a daw hammer minus handle; and. such utterly useless items that seemed wasteful to throw away when we “might need ’em sometime.” *' „ Vo o ^'

When the white man discovered* this cofintry; the Indians were running H. There were no taxes, there was no debt. .-The women did all the work. The white man thought he could improve <m a system like that!

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JUfellowVren* to,a newspaper off ice the other day “and asked the editor if hr tad some small p&rt-thne work to give his wife. “She ain’t got nothing to do/* said ’ the fellow. “She Just gets up about 6 o’clock and cooks a tittle breakfast and washes the dishes; then she ain’t got nothing to do until she goes to work at 9. When she gets home at 5, she cooksa little supper and cleans up the dishes. Then until bedtime she ain’t got nothing to do. I thought maybe you might find her a little book work, or paper folding, or something to do to sorts’keep her occupied.’’

It brings to mind a favorite story of a doctor. The farmer brought his wife to town to the doctor, saying the old lady hadn’t been feeling so good lately, and besides, she was actin’ sorts’ peculiar. When the doctor told the farmer that his wife had a nervous breakdown, the old man replied, “Fo’ Gawd, Doc, I don’t know where she cotched it; she ain’t been off the place for 15 year’!’*- ..

Fall is beginning to give its sign a Th^ weather has been so warm thdt it has slipped up on most of us that the trees are beginning to turn. Another couple of weeks will •find the mountain sides in brilliant color. ?*,• Some folks are predicting that ■"U1- 1 ’ir 1 1 1