The Archive · 1938

The Gentle Rise

For ourselves we are getting concerned about the extra cost of necessary commodities though for a war-ridden land our food prices are not so'high as they might have been. Those gentle little notices, though, in our news sheets seem harmless and insignificant in themselves, but they have a way of piling on the agony to the cost of living, and we find at the end of the month that these insignificant trifles amount to quite a considerable sum, In the meantime, after filling the family pool which seems to get deeper, Charity has to keep on

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