| Show eod Edd ECONOMY romy lOMY iset ALTH there bei bel being ng no preace preaching bruk so eill itil eject ual aa example we shall shail elucidate pur pue homely text by y facts within duc guc our wn own knowledge and let our readers make ikc their own inferences j j ten years agoa ago a son of the emerald isie isle faithful hard working and industrious dust rious was contentedly plodding along with steady employment at six aix dollars a week it A was all he could do to mako make the ends ajeet meet and not quentis ly lie lle ha was obliged to ask one or more weeks advance pay to settle some unexpected demand caused by vy sickness lekness in his large family fam family lly ily As well weli from a wish to assist as from an appreciation of his services and worth ills his employer advanced patricks pay first to eight fand nd jhen then to tell ten doil dolf dollars per week but p poor 0 patricks Patrick lf wants want increased faster than ti lir lar his pay and six si ix or seven years ago with gitil his ten do dollars M rs per week he called for advance wages oftener and more earnestly earli earll estly than he did three years yeara before that with his weekly pittance of r six dollars his employer remonstrated in vain and at last after alter showing him raj that he was as well off with six as with ten tell i dollars reduced his pay to dollars and poor patrick went oft off a more doleful face than he had worn I 1 the lesson hatel effect ra lra ird fearl fearing n a 3 red reduction u t ion lon IB patrici at le dia dla not isk zik ask advance p pap pay a y fo foru ne nearly aly bix six ri arx months and then to in meet e et th the funeral expenses of a dependent brother lie he humbly wished for twenty r flye dollar the conversation was something liki like the following 11 I 1 I 1 patrick my bly brother is dead sir ani ant an if it ye P plase lase ip ifa be after arthr five dollars to pay the decther doo doc ther and fur the ther funeral A I 1 E employer but why dont you uso use j your own money patrick and not ask for mine you have money elou enough hai hal ii patrick patriek andade in dad e all an ibish I 1 wish I 1 had sur bur but ive taken up ivery cint of me aks wages an its all gone eln Ein employer you remember when I 1 put cut down your ji wages ages two dollars a week now li ant you sou ou been letting getting along alop just as well ivell oil on tie the eight dollars as X xou you I 1 did id before oil the ten dollars patrick patriek 1 cant ean can say but I 1 have sur bur jt lis its just as ye bowld me when I 1 had bad tin dollars dollars it all wint and when I 1 have eight its gone all the same employer but I 1 only saved the two dollars for vou you ou patriek patrick and now I 1 owe you fod forty dol doi dollars laig you can have twenty nive five and ill ril still keep the fifteen and put two to it every evory week if yo yog you igi III like ilke 1 z f and besides ill lil pay you good buc lue r s alto on arx what you leave in my rhy hands we need peed not say ay that patrick was gratified to ge get t lils his twenty tk five dollars and still more to know that at some sonie as was leftin left in his involuntary savings av ings bank two or three weeks beeks later miter patrick presented himself again employer well I 1 patrick atter more money I 1 ney are 5 you ou I 1 thou thought ht you were going to let me keep whai there is left 11 patrick atrick looking down and playing with kifle his ills fingers verv very sheepishly its not eliat IF if deplaze ye plaze plazo sur but would world ye e cut clit down donn ine vie anva wages es another br dollar doliar sur S r tile the wid ald womanly woman ll not kno know knod V it ur and anav weli weil well quil be kitting gattin along justas justad just as well on th tile lver iver dollars sur and so it was that patrick caught the e spirit of economy in two years he had saved nearly four hundred dollars lind and then than he lie was advised to buy a small smail and conveniently located house the house was found and with repairs would cost sixteen hundred dollars but patricks courage failed him patriek patrick I 1 cant do it sur I 1 lve ive reckoned rech boned it all out sur the water and the tiie taxes and the interest sur on 1000 of the pur purchase ellase eliase money which which was to remain oil mortgage would take all M me e savings sayings and and aud it yu never be paid for employer not so bad us that I 1 guess let me reckon it for you patrick its no use sur I 1 cant do it an id beather not try the nerist would be dollars an the taxes tin dollars and the water tin dollars an the more agin it take two years to pay the two hundred dollars would iet let leme ma have oh it cant be done lone sur E employer you reckon one side very wery ers c cry well patrick and nd I 1 ani am glad you yot fare fure are aro so cautious now let us reckon the other side patrick sure sti re theres no oth other othen er side sio is there employer how much rent do you pay pan where N lier iier you eyou are living patrick patriek eight dollars a manth and dear enough the rooms are employer but in the new lie lle house have no rent to pay and that hundred tred ired would savo save save savo almost one I 1 hun hundred dollars a year var van yan patrick patriek sur I 1 think a word of that empl empi employer oser oyer and and you would not need all 41 of the house yourself you might idt et out some part of it patrick batrick trick with sparkling sOr kling eyes yes e and tail tall talking ting fast and eagerly 21 N niver iv er a doubt the basement basemen will do 1 the he likes of me ilie llie and ill rint tint the mhd floors above for 20 a month alsy aisy E employer I 1 oyer oser no Pati patriek patrick lek lck you 0 dont need reed to go in the basement you can be comfortable inthe in the best bes t part watt 6 af f the bo hose se and then get a year for the rest then if you are as economical as you have been the last two years the new house housa will bill all be paid pae pal id for in the course of five years at most the house was purchased and notwithstanding hard liard times and war and s sickness itsue ss and accidents it is paid for and a prouder I 1 maii mari man or a richer man than patrick patrickj does not walk our streets now his savings saving are being laid awny away for some proposed bil additions addition sto to the house and he will t then h en have an income from it which would woul support him without work if 11 need be b e his 1600 1 goo house would moreover re readily odily se sell seli ii for 2000 or ok 2500 at this time so that patrick has a real basis for his ills pride prid this will rue lne meet the eyes eves of hundreds of mechanics and wording men and we trust it will say to them feiore more emphatically than words of ours could do go an and do 0 ewis A of econ binn ca cannot not lio lie e s systematically s at ij eail call hr ati cea illa ilia do does e not no mead M I 1 of miln as well as wealth of body W y smi 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