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Show Beresford's Advice to Sailor. tf a man makes up his mind that ho will be a bit moro economical, a bit less lazy, a bit moro temperate, 'hero Is no cxciibo for him If lie does not begin nt once. He will find opportunities oppor-tunities pretty well everv day of his life, and If ho does not seize on them he has a dlsagreenblo feeling that, after all, ho did not mean to do anything any-thing of tho kind. It Is extremely painful, that feeling not nt all conducive con-ducive of sclfndinlrntlon. A sailor once consulted Iord lleresford as to whether l:o thought he ought to save some of his money. "Certainly!" said Ixird Charles. "How much do you cam? Well, try nud savo six penco a day." Sixpence a day! Tho man tried It for a fortnight, and discovered that at the end of tho tlmo ho had Bavcd only four sixpences' It was too annoying an-noying to admit that ho could not i savo sixpence a day, so he announced his intention of saving at least elgh-to-n pence a day. He never put by anything afterwards, but bis pride was saved. It was something no ono need bo ashamed of, not .paving eighteen eigh-teen ponce a day out of such Wages as he received! That U how we. In the Chinese slang "savo our faces," and become dead failures In many reip-vta without with-out admitting It even to ourselves. |