. The Ladies' home journal. oat, Dorothy said. Tom I (and I have more than lots of folks. Weve got our children and theyre still eatingpretty good. Maybe were behind two payments on the house, but we always catch tup, and we own it!- By now Dorothy and I were settled in the nine-by-twelve living room. YoungSullivans were boiling around us, but the room was clean and uncluttered. Thin,worn-looking Dorothy is unalterably convinced that cleanliness and order are worththe effort. The woodwork was spotless. The pretty lace curtains, pride of heart, hung starched and crisp. Neat tidies
. The Ladies' home journal. oat, Dorothy said. Tom I (and I have more than lots of folks. Weve got our children and theyre still eatingpretty good. Maybe were behind two payments on the house, but we always catch tup, and we own it!- By now Dorothy and I were settled in the nine-by-twelve living room. YoungSullivans were boiling around us, but the room was clean and uncluttered. Thin,worn-looking Dorothy is unalterably convinced that cleanliness and order are worththe effort. The woodwork was spotless. The pretty lace curtains, pride of heart, hung starched and crisp. Neat tidies covered worn spots on theoverstuffed furniture where the children were scuffling and sliding. Nearly everything that caught my eye had a story. Dorothy values her possessions,and recalls without difficulty how and when and at what cost they were acquired. Theoverstuffed suite, the desk and coffee table, the threadbare rug were bought on theinstallment plan in the first two years of the Sullivan marriage. So was the cabinet. Laundry day comes twice a week. And soap alone, stillrising in price, costs the household $ every month. Dorothy at the mirror. She hasnt been in a beauty parlor since hermarriage. Last September she purchased ingredients and chemicalsind gave Patsy and herself a home-style permanent wave. Cost? $3 Dorothy is a wise and thrifty shopper. Her children are cooky-crazy. So she buys day-old and broken cookies at a rate of 35 cents for three dozen. She buys fruit cannedin water and cooks it with sugar at home. This means a real and substantial saving. *1 I
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