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Mr. Lord, President of the International Food Products Company, objects to the attachment which has sprung up between his daughter Mildred, and his private secretary, Tracy, and tells the ... See full summary

Mr. Lord, President of the International Food Products Company, objects to the attachment which has sprung up between his daughter Mildred, and his private secretary, Tracy, and tells the young people that matrimony, on Tracy's slender salary, is out of the question. Mildred's pleas that she would be quite happy in the role of a poor man's wife, are promptly rejected. Mildred, however, unknown to her father, starts on a career of economy by which she hopes to be able to learn to live within Tracy's means. She receives a terrible shock at the outset when she learns the cost of food stuffs and then and there decides that the cost of living is too high. She evolves a plan to remedy this evil and laying it before the General Federation of Women's Clubs, is hailed as the modern Joan D'Arc. The plan is a simple one. A list of food products is made with each item numbered. This list is sent to every member of the United States with instructions to refrain from buying any article whose number...