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It was Peony who suggested that, since they were so very much in debt, they must economize all that next summer and fall. Peony was always being spectacular.
She said, "I love to blow money in, and I'd give my virtue for the Chinese rug and the Chippendale cabinet, but I can save, too--I can save like a son of a gun." During vacation she found for them a three-room cottage in Northern Minnesota, and she cooked, swept, scrubbed, amused Carrie. She would let the Dean help her only with the dishes; she had him reading economics, anthropology, history, and they both felt very advanced and improved. Neither of them saw any difference between Lothrop Stoddard and William Graham Sumner. Any book was good and very useful if it said anything about head- measurements, the training of youth for democracy, or the increased production of gas-stoves.