SAVE THE WASTE | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Apr 5, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 14.

SAVE THE WASTE.

SOME families waste enough to support others who are in want. The art of saving is as important as the art of earning.

Harper's Weekly tells of a useful object lesson given to the pupils of the high schools in Brussels, which inculcated the gathering up of the fragments, that nothing should be lost:

"During eight months the scholars, rich and poor, were requested to collect each day, and bring to school, any and all objects that they saw coming and going on their schoolways—material thrown away and counted as refuse, in the gutters, in vacant ground, street sweepings, and like deposits. Waste paper, wood, fragments of leather, bits of metal, empty bottles, broken glass, corks, as flotsam and jetsam, poured in daily. The general result was that this unattractive but quite 'convertible' material was sold to dealers in raw material with surprising profits. They provided clothing for about 500 little waifs of poverty, and furnished money for the sending of ninety-eight invalid children to health resorts; paid for all the books needed in several-charity classes; and afforded a sum of several hundred francs for the city's Public Assistance of the Poor."—Selected.