Show n Something to Think About By F. F A. A WALKER I I L I o e I 1 RUINOUS WEALTH as It may seem dt t first blush the declaration made so frequently by psychologists and economists that but few people e can bear prosperity Is nevertheless true When Wilen I come Into the fortune which Js Is to be mine the day of m my majority ma- ma says the youth who Ls Is looking forward to what he considers Is to be bethe bethe the crowning event of at his Ute life I shall show my set how a l gentleman ot of wealth and fine tastes should live and himself r i So when the riches come In n showers and floods the prodigal youngster starts ore oft at n a rapid pace on a carefree care care- tree free career which In an incredibly short time ends In broken manhood and humiliating dIsaster It Is the story which Is so often oCten told of the tho sowing ot of wild oats and the reaping ot of tares and of dishonor the selling of a soul for a rag and a bone bonee The handling of large Jarge properties and great sums of ot money by tile the Is usually fraught ht with just such peril perno And In quite the same manner the newly rich forgetful of their limited means ot of the past start off air In their new adventure with a brazen blare of trumpets It Is their first taste ot of the golden feast and they have resolved resol to gorge themselves to repletion In n a dozen years or so 80 with ng to show for their folly except t a alot lot Jot of worthless Iee aws and a burdensome bur lJUr load or of experIence they are ure glad to get back In the homely bomely little tittle corner of at the staid stahl old world which the they so abandoned The scene or of their defeat they would gladly dose close to their minds mind's e eye oe but they cannot do so The happiness which was theirs In the simple life Is gone Their substantial friends In the bare days are no more Instead ot of triumph the wealth they quickly qu got and wantonly spent brou brought bt them nothing b t derIsion and 1 sorrow sorro The same poor sort ot of humans human are everywhere about us gazing with envious envious en- en greedy eyes upon the rich often cowe cowed 1 by fear and burdened with cancerous cancerous can can- cerous care And aU all the while these hapless creatures seem unaware that hard work and high thinking give o peace and pleasure that wealth cannot buy ICi IQ I Ci Q by Newspaper Syn Syndicate he Young Lady V Across the W WY Y y yd d I 1 C l r The young roun lady across th tha way says she doesn't believe In n going to extremes ex- ex and she thinks earrings s four inches lon long are arc nearly long Jong enough for tor any girl lQ I by McClure Newspaper Syn Syndicate |