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Show MONEY SAVED IS UNEARNED Most Fortunec Grew from Humble Savings in the Beginning How to Save. (By Bertha A. Rich.') Most fortunes grow from small beginnings. be-ginnings. The savings bank, of course, is the simplest beginning. There are other ways. The man who has the Intelligence lo select the means of making one dollar produce another quickly, is, of course, tho lucky man. No opportunity will bo avallablo to the mnn or woman with out ready money to take advantage of It. Tho Evening Standard wants this habit of saving money to spread until every man, woman and child in this city who has not already a savings account ac-count will begin' one. Tho Bnvlng of money not only means independence In the futuro, but it means bettor use of timo in the present , Think this over. Think of your own case. Look at tho men about you who havo money. Remember that, with n few disgraceful exceptions among tho gamblers, thieves and politicians, poli-ticians, the average man has money because ho had tho BtrengjLh of char-actor char-actor to save. Even John D. Rockefeller Rocke-feller has hundreds of millions now because ho was able to save the first dollar. If he had spent the first few dollars ho would have spent all tho othor dollars. As to how luc money should be saved, tho simple recipe Is to boglii nt once. Thoro arc very row men who could not Bfivc something. V.'ork is comparatively' com-paratively' plenty and wngce aro good. Out oT your earnings put nsidc something some-thing each day. No matter it the amount is small, Bavo somothlng, and see how long It Is herore you nave an appreciable account at your savings bank. A man with some money 6aved is a better citizen, other things being be-ing equal, than the man who has not He Is a better workman, a better husband, hus-band, rather or son, because he has more or an object to work for, his mind is moro at easo, he is more contented, con-tented, ns he is moro or his own master than the man who has noth-and noth-and and must work at tho first job that Is open or the dollar that will buv him food or get him a bed. Ever' man or woman with a child or any other human being dependent upon him must as a matter of decency de-cency learn to savo money. For only money saved and accumulated can mean permanent independence Remember Re-member that tlie man whose dollar you must get from day to day is the man who owns you. When you fall to save money j-ou fall to tnko advantage ad-vantage of an opportunity to buy your freedom. Your job" may be a good or.e with fair and gonerous employers em-ployers and all that, but it may not last, or you may not last If you are not saving money, what are you and your family going to do week after net if your work Is cut off today? The Evening Standard gave you a pocket safe in which to save your spare nickels, dlmos and dollars. With tho safe ou were also given a check for fifty cents drawn on tho Ogden Savings Bank. Don't wait until you accumulate $5 or $10 or $100. but as soon as you have ?2 f0 to spare take it, together with tho fifty-cent check to tho Ogdon Savings Bank and make your deposlL You will feel better and stronger when you walk out of tho bank with your bank book In your pocket. |