Show HIS SAVINGS borne CO Buneata oa the manner ha which they were made A horny handed workingman in meriden whose wages have never been over two dollars a day has saved nine thousand dollars from them which he keeps at interest in the savings bank he must surely have lived very closely he must have been mean toward his four children three girls and one boy he must have cut down his family supplies to a low notch during the forty years in which he has been laying by his riches it is time for us to say that we cannot hold him up for an example to be followed by all other workingmen it would not be well for them to live as he must have lived all hia life never enjoying half a pint of peanuts or a saucer of ice cream never giving any of his children a stick of candy or a doll hardly ever buying a new dress for his wife or a auit of clothes for himself or a copy of a meriden newspaper the word in that household from morning till night at breakfast dinner and supper must have been scrimp he is surely a atinay man something oom ething like a skinflint or how could he have saved BO much out of hia small wages we cant say that we admire his style it is good for man says the new york sun to live pretty well if he can afford it and to get the best out of his money as he goes along always of course avoiding anything like wastefulness ful ness always practicing economy it is good for him to put some money in the bank if he can but not much more than he can beare it is right for one to feather his nest but wrong to stuff it BO lull of feathers that its occupant cannot breathe freely certainly oh certainly you should lay up something against a rainy day but still you need not squeeze all the juice out of life like the stingy two dollar a day man of meriden |