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Show SAYS THE FELLOW ON TOP Wage Earner Must Cut Out Luxuries Before He Has Right to Ask for Sympathy. "How do you account for the high cost of living?" i The rubicund gentleman addressed, glanced at a check for 18.85, representing repre-senting the cost of his modest meL handed the waiter $10, with lnstrue-tions lnstrue-tions to keep the change; pulled out a cigar that the interviewer recogntxe& as a GO-center, and leaned back in bla chair. . , "All rubbish," he Bald. "People liver beyond their means and then growl about it It's their own fault." "I Bee. You believe that everybody should save part of his income?" "Exactly." :t "Umph-umph. Sounds reasonable. " But what proportion of it do you think ho should salt down? Suppose, for inutance, the man earns $1.10 a dny, and has a wifo and five children, and Bomo of the babies got sick occasionally, oc-casionally, and tho older ones need clothes In which to go to school, and " tho landlord wants his rent right on tho nnil, and a pair of kid's shoes lasts a month, and tho Instalment on tho sowing machino la 60 cents bvetry two weeks, and ho carries enough lti8uranco to bury him, and enough medicine for his wifo is half a dollar dol-lar a throw, and everything that the members of his household eat and drink and wear costs moro than it used to, and gots higher all the timo, do you think ho ought to save a very largo proportion of his Incomo?" In-como?" "You do not Btnto tho case fairly. Doubtless tho man has vices. I am irtaln ho Bmokes." . ' "I forgot that. Yes, ho pays five cents n pnekngo for tobacco and a package laatB ton dnys." "Ha! Shiftless follow. And, of courso, ho has tho nerve to complain. He'll cut out luxuries beforo ho gots . nny sympathy from me." |