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Show Something to Think About THE JOB AND THE MAN By F. A. Wdker J EVEItY man and woman should havo a budget. Therr should to a businesslike apportionment, of what you earn, to your needs and your tastes. . , You will hnvo to assign so much to rent. It used to be 23 per cent In the ordinary Income. Now It averages more. There will havo to bo nn allowance for food and clothing, for tho doctor and the dentist, for amusement and pleasure, for necessary travel and for unnecessary extravagances, for wo all Imve our extravagances. All these things will bo promptly listed and thoroughly looked after. Wo shall probably bo particularly liberal lib-eral with those Items which mean tho least In tho sum total of human happiness. hap-piness. The last thing that will bo thought I about, and the most Bcanty allowance will be made for It, will be the devol-1 opment and betterment of our minds. I How much money did you spend laBt year on worth-whllo books books you aro keeping to read a second time-books time-books thnt added to your wisdom or gave you something Valuable to think about? How much tlmo did you spend In filling your mental storehouse with facts useful In dally life and valuable In your dully work? Did you spend as much tor Information Informa-tion as you did for gasoline? If you wero to add together nil the time you spent gaining knowledge, would It bo half tho time that you spent dnnclng? Do you consider thnt MONEY Is the only thing you spend? TIME Is your much greater asset. You can earn moro money. You cannot, with nil tho wealth of all tho universe, In all tho ages, buy one mlnuto ot tlmo nor bring back for another and a better uso a wasted hour. Lord Drougham, a man who spent his time wisely and profitably, wrote down this short sentence tilled with good advice: "Head something of everything, and everything of something." some-thing." There Is no excuse for any man, woman or child past twelve years spending 'less than half an hour a day with a good book. Reading carefully and THOUGHT. FULLY 9ou will cover not less than ISO words n minute. That Is 4,f00 words a day. ONE MILLION SIX HUN-DRED HUN-DRED AND FORTY-TWO THOU-SAND THOU-SAND WORDS A YEAR. How much wiser do you think you would bo If you did that for only ono year? Knowledgo is tho freest, tho most Inexpensive In-expensive thing In tho world, and we think less of It than of anything else. Stop making a pet of your stomach. Stop worrying nbout your clothes. Gtvo up some of tho useless Utlngs upon which you spend and waste your time and your monoy. Make up a budget of your 'earnings and your hours that shall havo In It a liberal allowance for your mind, for your Intelligence, for your thinking powers. What you havo Inside your head no robber can get, n Ponrl can transfer trans-fer to his pockets. Not even old age can destroy It, and perhaps not even death can take.lt away from you. Do genorous with your mind. Feed It. Nourish It. Cam tnr u. u is tho ono part of you that really mat-ten, mat-ten, tho ono thing upon which you should spend lavishly and continuously. continu-ously. (Copyright) O |