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Show B POPULAR EXTRAVAGANCE fl i A successful business man was ro- B j marking tho other day, that if pcoplo H 1 woro enly willing to live as ho lived I whan hoy, thoro need bo llttlo complaint com-plaint about tho high cost of living. BB lie was brought up In a cold tllmo, B j hut he said that many times through m i tbo cold weather his father and moth B j or would let tho (Ires out at supper B ' tlmo, and spend tho ovcnlng with HB neighbors, In order to savo n llttlo H HB ills frugal mothor used to roll lamp M I llfihters out of paper, to savo match- B ' rs. llo complained particularly of H , tho freedom with which working pco- HB , ilo spend monoy for moving pltturu B shows, as one Illustration of wldo BBB spread habits of extravagances among B people of small means. B '' nu simple frugal old days had a H lino austere and Spartan quality. B Hut they can never return. It was B an ago of very passlvo habits of mind. B People went to bed nt eight or nlno H o'clock. Thoro was little else to do. HJ Hooks, magazines, and newspapers B ero scarce Few persons lived lives B of muph mental nlortncss. It was a B calm, serene kind of existence, full H of healthful out door life, but slug- B Hb Tho prosont Is n tlmo of great men- M tiu illertuess. Tho mechanic and tho B furmor no longer Uvo phlegmatic lives B numtully, but sit up reading evonlugs B ' tho newspapers, Instead or going to Hb bed. This gives them a glimpse Into Hi tho world, and thoy nr0 hungry for B u wider outlet. m loving pictures, rratcrnnl organlz- M nt ns, tho social life of towiiB and Hi vl iges, these aro a fow of tho ways H In which tho worklugman's monoy H goB today. Tho old timer may say m It wnt.10 and Improvldouco. Yet It M Ih n the nature of tho ago. To deny 1 pcoplo nmusoment nnd outlet Into tho m wi Id today Is like creating tho np- H potlto of hunger and then refusing BBm |