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Show GETTING ALONG. It may be said without fear of contradiction, that 90 per cent of the people would like to be better bet-ter off in this world'3 goods than they are. The man with a steady income of $100 a month would like to make it $200, and the man with $200 would like to make his income $400. And ' if we are to judge by the conversation of our friends, their ambition am-bition to increase their income is very strong within with-in them. It is a peculiar fact that the men with steady incomes get to living up to the limit of that income, and sometimes they have desires which lead them to spend more than they make. It seems to be the spirit of this day to let the future take care of itself. A large earning power naturally leads to a large spending power. Our desires are always a little more expensive than our income will afford,-but if we are able to squeeze out one more dollar a week, the incentive back of it is to gratify ourselves in the possession of something which had hitherto been denied us. , This condition may not belong peculiarly to the present day, but it is a fact that the present is a time of reckless extravagance .among all classes of people, from those of the plethoric purse to those of the most meager financial resources. 'Our nation na-tion has become notorious in the world as one with no notion of economy among the people. The de-ire de-ire is not to save or to make provision for a time v.en the earning power must of necessity decrease, but to gratify the desires of the flesh. The experiences of mankind, however, all point to the necessity of economy if the declining years of life are to be spent in comfort' or reasonable security. se-curity. To mention economy in these days, however, how-ever, is to read yourself out of polite society. Economy Econ-omy and frugality are galling terms to the reckless. reck-less. To "live" is to spend your money like a drunken drunk-en Bailor; it is better to be dead than deny one's self whatever one's income will bear. However, notwithstanding not-withstanding this popular conception of one's du- j ties to himself, or to his family, if he has one, it is well at times to remember that no life is all sunshine, that inevitably the storm will appear. There are, moreover, opportunities open to the man or woman who has accumulated a little money which never come to the man or woman who spends his last red cent before the next payday Tolls around. If the salaried employe or wage earner would only remember that every time he saved $100 and puts it at interest, it is earning him from one to three days' work a year, the thought ought to furnish him some compensation for the self-denial which makes the saving possible. |