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Show Foolish Saving. Hen go into trade and do dirty tricks, and screw, wherever thoy can, a profit. Thi4 will, with equal self -gratification, dine at another man's expense, and turn off, to face the workhouse, "a hand" who is growing aseicss from having hav-ing consumed his strength and vigor in their service. The women dam dishcloths, dish-cloths, and patch muslins and window curtains, lock up eggs and akim the cruain oil the milk themselves from a similar motive. Their husbands "make" money, they "save it" and both succeed. Gradually the hoards increase; at first slowly and with pain the nucleus is formed. For years the nest egg is small, but a moment mo-ment comes after which it accumulates with rapidity. The income has become considerable, bat the outgoings are oa meager as ever overplus Income becomes be-comes capital every year. The close habits which created the fortune are ' continued to preserve it, and the in-1 congrnity is presented of external display dis-play and internal pincming. Children are born in the meantime, and inherit their father's or mother's niggardliness as surely as their features. Hcrw York - - |