| Show S SAVE VEt AM n liVE Too many of or us arc nrc fearful of beIng considered stingy and this fear leads lead us to the point not generosity ns as we wo seem to think but hut extravagance Tobe Tobe To be he provident is something which we must learn to realize In other othel words that there is a medium ground between between be be- tween extravagance and fisted close ness And It Is found In being provi provi- dent That Is what must he lC Impressed upon lIpon thu the young oung and anti those who are arc mature In years should set the example ex ex- ex ample Because one happens to have havethe havethe havethe the means at his Is no excuse ex excuse ex- ex cuse for setting a falso false standard to children showering luxuries upon them which In later latel years they will not recognize ns as luxuries but hut as us necessities illes without which the they cannot o. do Fathers are too prone to make life liCe too cas easy for fOl their theil sons regarding business as ns a sort of martyrdom for themselves themselves them them- selves but one to be he held off orr from their sons as long Ions as possible Young Youn men arc are g given gen en a license In matters of or spending monc money on clothes and amI indulgences In Indulgences In- In far Car beyond their years or needs Girls arc are spoiled b by loving and well intentioned mothers In a way that hat hatnot not only gives them false notions as asto to the Illness fitness of things but direct directly stands in the wa way of their future chances of happiness Young men late dare not assume the risk of marrying and supporting these girls whose wardrobes wardrobes wardrobes ward ward- robes cost as much and VCr very often orton more moro than do those of their mothers 1 We re cannot blamo blame the lie girls naturally the they take all the they can get It Is the thea a mother who Is to lo blame the blame the mother who In her love lovo for fOl her child really does docs her an Incalculable and Irreparable Irreparable par par-l able able injury injun Do not get the notion of an extremist I in this question of saving money Perhaps Perhaps Per Per- haps JC If the writer were he would have more money than he happens to have Where here the means are arc at ones one's disposal Indulge in comforts Wo Yo live but once is a true saying and we should get what comfort we can while we live But there is a n vast difference between this and the extravagance to which so man many of us arc are given Indulgent Indulgent gent fathers and anel loving mothers apparently apparently ap ap- ap- ap do not realize the harm that they are doing But It is time they I should come to a r realization of it The f school chool of extravagance is not one In which to educate a a. girl Irl or a boy Its lessons arc are death dealing as ai many know The school of wise practical economy is far better The most valuable valuable vaIn vaIn- able lessons In life are arc t to be he learned there To ro bo be provident Is not o be stingy mean penurious not nor close close- fisted It is to he wise Generosity I is not Impossible with providence It Is well veIl that we wo should let lel the young be he as free from flom cares and worries worries wor wor- ries rles as the they can be but hut It Is not well that the they should bo ho allowed to reach young manhood or young womanhood with the seeds of extravagance In their natures or 01 without wilho a true realization realization realization reali reali- of the value of oC monC money But we must begin with ourselves we who are older We Ye must set sot the example of or provident living avoiding closeness on the thc one hand and a extravagance on the other remembering that the greatest evil of extravagance Is visited vis viz- upon those who live after ancl us Extravagance Extravagance Ex Ex- means a legacy of pain providence a legacy of pleasure |
