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Show As to Savins Honey. If the average man of education and brains were to save one-quarter of his-wages his-wages and invest it Judiciously, he would have enough at 50 to "feel easy ' the rest of his days. " He ought to live to be 70. and should retire at the half century. Start at 23, say, to earn your own living. Suppose you never make-more make-more than $3,000 a year, which Is -a rather high average even for brains of the highest university brand. . One-fourth One-fourth of this amount saved' annually for twenty-seven' years would be a tor-tune tor-tune of over $20,000, If laid away In a. stocking, and if well invested should be; half as much more. Thirty thousand thou-sand dollars at 6 per cent would glva, an Income of $1,500 a year quits-enough quits-enough for comfort. |