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Kane County Standard | 1932-09-02 | Page 3 | Gage and His Money

Type issue
Date 1932-09-02
Paper Kane County Standard
Language eng
City Kanab
County Kane
Rights No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title Gage and His Money
Type article
Date 1932-09-02
Paper Kane County Standard
Language eng
City Kanab
County Kane
Page 3
OCR Text GAGE AND HIS MONEY by THOMAS ARKLE CLARK lato late dean of men universe Uni versi of illinois illinoi at the professional school which he ha attended they still say that gago had the most brilliant mind that th the school has ever trained ills family was very poor and so was not able to help him V financially even when ho he was going I 1 n 9 through high be school ool lie ile managed in a dozen ways w a ys somo some ot of them clever and others quite commonplace mon place to earn hla his living while to in high school and college lie ile often lacked proper clothes sometimes he w was as only scantily fed but through it all ho he managed to do very remarkable work in hla his studies no doubt his poverty galled him but if it did he be was too proud ever to reveal his true feelings even to his mt most intimate friends unlike most young fellows who struggle along without friends or position he fell at once when lie he finished his professional course into a position which brought him clients of wealth who were able to pay large tees fees for fop satisfactory service gage prospered beyond his bis most rosy expectations he made more in a year than he had ever had in his whole life before lie ile had bad met a girl after hs he had left college whose experience had been very much like his own and shortly after he took up his practice they were married and here Is where they made the tha great mistake of their lives As soon as they got money they began to spend it recklessly never having had many of the comforts of life they were now not satisfied without its luxuries lux urica never having had an quate income within which to live when they got one they lived far beyond it gage made twice as much money as aa he should have spent for so BO skillful was he and so much in demand that his office was crowded constantly with people eager to consult him ile he worked long hours often coming back bach to his office at night to finish what the daylight did not furnish sufficient time to accomplish but the money that he earned he squandered foolishly gage Is an old man from overwork at forty he has accumulated little though he has made much ue he has learned to save neither his strength nor hla his money 0 1132 1932 western newspaper union
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