Portraits of American Girlhood: Happy Birthday, Kit

WORD LIST:
(from the Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

Frugal - Economical in the use or appropriation of money, goods or provisions of any kind; saving unnecessary expense, either of money or of any thing else which is to be used or consumed; sparing; not profuse, prodigal or lavish. We ought to be frugal not only in the expenditure of money and of goods, but in the employment of time. It is followed by of, before the thing saved; as frugal of time. It is not synonymous with parsimonious, nor with thrifty, as now used.

Twang - 1) v.i. To sound with a quick sharp noise; to make the sound of a string which is stretched and suddenly pulled; as the twanging bows. 2) v.t. To make to sound, as by pulling a tense string and letting it go suddenly. Sound the tough horn, and twang the quivering string. 3) n. A sharp quick sound; as the twang of a bowstring; a twang of the nose. An affected modulation of the voice; a kind of nasal sound.

Almanac - AL'MANACK, n. A small book or table, containing a calendar of days, weeks and months, with the times of the rising of the sun and moon, changes of the moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, stated terms of courts, observations on the weather, &c. for the year ensuing. this calendar is sometimes published on one side of a single sheet, and called a sheet-almanack. The Baltic nations formerly engraved their calendars on pieces of wood, on swords, helves of axes, and various other utensils, and especially on walking sticks. many of these are preserved in the cabinets of the curious. they are called by different nations, rimstocks, primstories, runstocks, runstaffs, clogs, etc.

FRUGAL TIPS FROM THE GREAT DEPRESSION: