| Show live within your means lee Iff eans we dont like ilke stinginess vc vve dont like ilke geson lecon 0 omy when it comes dow down i n to rags and starvation mya we have ave no sympathy is ith the notion that the poor man mail should hitch bitch himself to a past and und stand still while the tha rest cf of the world moves forward it il is no mans duty to deny himsel of e every evers v er y amusement every luxury every recreation every comfort that ha li may get rich it is la no mans make an beberg of or himself 40 to shut his eyes and ears to tile tha sufferings of ills ins fellos fellows and to deny himself the tiie enjoyment that results from generous actions merely hit lie may y board wealth for his hu beirs heirs to quarrel about bat there is yet et an economy which ij U every ever mans mails duty and which is 13 especially aspeci illy tily commendable in the man mail who struggles s with poverty an economy which is is consistent coni stent with happiness and which must be practiced if the poor man mau would secure hi independence dependence it is every mails roans privilege and it becomes his duty to live within ills his means not up to but within them wealth does doea not make tile the ruan we admit and hould should never bo be taken into account in our judgment of men but corn competed compe tei ter ce should be secured wilen ft it call can be by the tile practice of economy and self denial dental to only a lo lerable tolerable extent jt it should be secured not so much for others to look upon u p on or dr to raise us in the estimation of others as to secure tho th consciousness of independence the constant satis satisfaction ruction that Is derived from its acquirement aud and possession wo vvo would like to impress this single fact upon the mind of every laboring mau man mho who n ho may peruse this tilla short article that it is possible for hlin blin to rise above poverty pu verty verly and that the tile path to independence ice though beset with ith tills toils ana and self seif sacrifice is much pleasanter plea santer to the traveler than any ono olic lie he can enter upon the man who feels that he is earni earning rig tig something more than thau ho he ia spending will walk the tha streets with willi a much ilg lighter t er heart and enter his bin home with a much more moro cheerful countenance than lie he who spends as lie he goes or falls gradually behind his necessities in acquiring the means of meeting them next to the tiie shivery davery of intemperance there is no slavery on earth more galling than that of poverty and indebtedness 1 the I 1 I e man W who lo 10 I 1 is e every ery blodys debtor is slave and in in a much condition than he fie who serves a tingle tinge ge master for the sake bake of the present then as well weil we 6 as for tile the sake of the future we won would id urge most earnestly upon every working man m min an to live within ills his means let him lay by something every day if but a penn be it a penny it is better than nothing infinitely better than running in debt a penny a day or a penny a week if he ca can earn a dollar let him film try fairly aud faithfully the tha experiment of living on oil ninety cents ile he will like it people will laugh langh 1 let them laugh they will cali calt call cali me stingy better batter call you stingy than say you do not pay your debts futhey they will wonder why I 1 do not have better furniture kiture live in a finer house and attend concerts and the play house let them wonder for a while it wont hurt them and it certainly wont you by and by you can have a fine house and fine furniture of your own and they will wonder aga inand come billing and cooing around you like so many pleased fools try the experiment live with in your means maine illaine farmer |
