A wasteful people, we Yankees. We buy foolishly, use foolishly, and throw away foolishly. As a rule, the poorest people, instead of being the most economical, are the most careless. They buy a half-pound of butter at seventeen cents, when a pound would cost but thirty-three. The butter lasts but a few days, another half-pound is bought, and a cent is lost. A poor washerwoman will buy an expensive beef-roast, serve it for one meal, give a large part of it to the pigs, and consider the bones of no account. True economy involves study. People buy writing-paper by the sheet, or the quarter-quire. In a few days it is all gone, and they buy anew, not realizing that by this process the price is quadrupled. Twenty cents gone perhaps, when a dollar, or less, would supply stationery for a year or two.
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