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Show SAVING AS A FINE ART Family Thrift Is Almost Unknown Quantity in the Average American Ameri-can Household The true art of saving is in knowing know-ing how to spend our money. Mr. Micawber's advice to David Copperfield wTas sound: "Never spend above your income." Family thrift is almost an unknown quantity In the average American household. Men are famous for their generosity and our women run their households on the same generous scale. As the Income grows larger little extravagances ex-travagances creep In Imperceptibly little lurries of no great moment seemingly at the time of their indulgence indulg-ence and so the Increased income is offset. Every sane man and woman wants to save. We know that it is our only insurance against the future. No matter how well things are going at the present moment, every family stands a chance of experiencing "rainy days," and we are wise If we take means to meet them. Sickness or loss of position has not the same dread to the man or woman who has a comfprtable savings account ac-count tucked away in the bank, as it has for the person who "spends as he goes along." Sickness or loss of position to the latter is nothing short of a tragedy. Of course, there are thousands who find the margin between wages and a bare living exceedingly scant. It seems next to impossible to save. But there are few of us who could not cut down our cost of living by careful buying and elimination of unnecessary un-necessary luxuries. Anyway, it would do us no harm to figure out our family budget a bit and adopt the plan of saving a certain per cent of our income for future contingencies. contin-gencies. Buffalo News. |