It is customary for social moralists to preach thrift and saving as a public duty, and to impart to their appeals a special note of urgency in times like the present, when, as the result of the havoc of the war, destitution is widespread over Europe.

If ever love fashioned a Christmas gift, Or saved its money and practiced thrift, 'Twas done in those days, my brother Those golden times of Long Gone By, Of our happiest years, when you and I Talked over the gift for Mother.

" Everything indicated thrift and prosperity.

If she had invested the proceeds of her labor in rich food and fine clothing, he might have endured it better; but to her passion for work was added a most detestable thrift.

Preach then, my dear Sir, to your son, not the excellence of human nature nor the disrespect of riches, but endeavour to teach him thrift and economy.

Adam Miller had inherited his father's thrift, as well as his trade, which was that of a stevedore, or contractor for the loading and unloading of vessels at the port of Wellington.

The real "HAMLET"if there ever was such a personwould have shown the traditional thrift and enterprise of his race by a very different course of conduct.

But the system of loans will probably help to develop greater thrift in the younger farming population.

These are practical regulations, devised for the purpose of restraining those who are not capable of controlling their own appetites and encouraging thrift and economy.

It is told of Ruy Garcia that when he went for his marriage license he lacked a dollar of the clerk's fee, but borrowed it of the sheriff, who expected reelection and exhibited thereby a commendable thrift.

She had extended to the dockyards the same hard thrift with which she had pared down her expenses everywhere.

To celebrate such a treaty Henry forgot his thrift.

In such a state of society, "Poor Richard," inculcating thrift and economy, in English as plain and lucid as that of Cobbett half-a-century later, had an immense popularity.

The places of others were taken by a tenantry, white or black, lacking the thrift of ownership; the lands of others passed to new owners of alien races.

"The way to teach people to strive for high wages and to learn thrift is to make them pay full value for what they get.

An unworthy gentleman is the scoff of wit and the scorn of honour, where more wealth than wit is worshipped of simplicity; who spends more in idleness than would maintain thrift, or hides more in misery than might purchase honour; whose delights are vanities and whose pleasures fopperies, whose studies fables and whose exercise worse than follies.

Robert K. Moore of Louisville mingled thrift with liberalism by setting free in 1802 two pairs of married slaves because of his conviction that involuntary servitude was wrong, and at the same time binding them by indenture to serve him for some fourteen years longer in consideration of certain small payments in advance and larger ones at the ends of their terms.

He had practised thrift.

Could be so sold to base and sordid thrift, As almost to deny himself, the means And necessaries of life?

With a cumbrous and oppressive government over them, and with no private ownership of land nor other encouragement for steadygoing thrift, the only chance for personal gain was through a stroke of discovery.

At the same time, he acknowledges the superior thrift and intelligence of the French cooks, and instances the frog and the horse.

Tell me, I pray, wherefore was gold laid under our feet in the veins of the earth, but that we should contemn it, and tread upon it, and so consequently tread thrift under our feet?

It is some time now, however, since the Highlanders have begun to appreciate the thrift and comfort of swine-keeping and swine-killing.

It has stood there many years, for it was built not long after the Revolution, and it might have stood many years more had it not been suffered to go to decay with a carelessness which seemed to belie the general thrift of the town.

It bred thrift and orderliness, but also an undue regard for property.