Show 1 Ii Evening Chit Chat BT BY I 4 HAVE more or less all my life but it never got the bettee bet bet- I tel tee of at mE but once said aid a s nen-s- paper man to mf me the lie other day And that once was vas when hen I got ire In with a crowd clOwd of men cocci who had bad hadd hada a d good deal more mone money than 1 I. They nicy were real estate men My business business busi busl- ness threw me mp in with them for a few rew months and during durin that time I spent j more mon money y on cards than I had a a. right to but to-but but that was the lie only time No 0 dont don't be be scar d. d This isn't to be bea belr a preachment against g t the danger a of gambling gam r lr rn t bling simply simply a few words d against what I seems to me the greater danger of or getting get Jet ting ling In with a a. crowd that has hag more m money than l you have It re reat wasn't at r. r the gambling that got that man lt It was simply the desire e to live hive up to toa toa if dh a financial standard that was too o high for him I do not believe c that list any dollar five man unless he has unusual strength of character can he thrown constantly with I fifty dollar people and not yield occasionally occasionally occa occa- to the temptation to spend as they doIn do In Iii some sonic one of lila hit books Charles Dickens Dickens Dickens Dick Dick- ens says that if you OU earn fifty pounds a year yeal and spend nine forty pounds and find nineteen shilling shillings you can be happy happ but if you ou make malce fifty pounds a II year and spend pend fifty pounds and one shilling you jou are ale pretty apt to be VEr very True enough except that no 00 matt matter mattel I Iho how ho carefully out olt keep your expenditures within that fifty pounds I doubt If you Oll will wilt be le happy happ if you OU as associate too constantly constantly constantly con con- with people who earn a hun- hun died po pounds II n In the town where I was brought up there lives lI a soured woman for whom few even en of the most tolerant folk have ha havea haea a good word Sh She was the only daughter of the owner o of a small shop who made perhaps 1500 or 2000 a year She was a pretty girl Her mother was wasa a clever woman an and 1 ambitious for her daughter Together they managed to place themselves in the set of ot the thA five and ten and fifteen thousand dollar a year people When the lie daughters of these families finished high school they went to one of the most expensive e colleges The shopkeepers daughter did likewise like like- wise of course And as aM far fal as history relates all went well veli with Ith her until the middle of ot her second college year when a slip of or yellow yellow yellow yel yel- low paper summoned her home one day ra rather ther rudely Weighed down by the burden of It his wife's and daughters daughter's attempts to live at a ten thousand dollar rate on a a. two thousand dollar income her Iter father had fa failed ailed lied in business and aghast at at the thought of or Interrupting his daughters daughter's education had committed suicide so that she might finish it with his life me ance This Is not a wild surmise He lIe stated his its purpose very explicitly and apologetically apologetically apologetically apolo apolo- in a note not the tho contents of ot which somehow or other leaked out An And 1 furthermore I that ha t girl actual actually took the money and calmly wont went about completing h her r education Rut But she had harl gone g too far II 1 I 1 he h. fi friends for whom she had done dIme this fell a away way from her her her-as as such friends have a way ay of doing That was fifteen years ears ago but buther buther buther her name Is II still a household word of or ill III repute Her shame Is still a village tradition It Is splendid have so strong a character character character char char- acter that one is never In the least swayed by the financial lal standards of tho those e about him But Hut since the average a person does docs not nol have such a character it seems scents to me mc that he lie will probably be better off If he lie makes It a plan to travel for the most part with the lie people of or his own financial p PI ane In all likelihood he will find just as nice and interesting and asid refined people In that plane as In the next higher and higher and infinitely more peace of mind in their society |