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Show ! Men in the W orld By J. E. HAMILTON Former Advertising Manager of Wanamaker't, Philadelphia Financially, there are Just two kinds of men in the world; those who constantly figure upon the principal of their money and those who deal with the interest on the principal. The one kind of man throws away ten dollars carelessly and says, "What's the difference. It is only a ten dollar bill." The other holds on to that ten and says, "Ten dollars is the interest at 5 per5 cent on a capital of two hundred dollars." One man figureson how much ten dollars will buy. The other man figures on how much it would cost him to buy ten dollars. A difference of principal and interest that is all. Yet the principal-figure is not the principle figurer in life. Indeed, he counts for very little except when he is spending that ten. No one comes to him with opportunities. No one considers him as a possible investor in anything good. Money always passes him quietly by. And yet this is all a simple habit of mind. The difference between financial success and financial failure is only a little ! trick of the brain. ! And the habit of figuring interest the habit of figuring every dollar you spend as the interest on twenty times that amount at five per cent, is very easily learned, j Try it now in the personal things you are going out to buy. If jyou need a suit of clothes, look through the advertising in this i paper. See where you can save five dollars, and then say to yourself, "I am not merely saving five dollars by buying a suit of clothes from this advertisement; I am saving the amount which one hundred dollars would earn if it worked at five per cent interest for a whole year." That's the thing that brings you to your muttons. That's the thing that makes you stop and think. Now these good sales are going on all through this paper. You can save money on anything you buy. Your clothes, your shoes, your shirts, your household gooda all offer money-saving opportunities oppor-tunities in these sales. Why, you can save the interest on at least five hundred dollars dol-lars if you will only go at it right. And show me the man to whom five hundred dollars is not a capital worth considering? In tcrest that is the thing to figure on always. And the way c s.i s i be interest on a lot of money is to watch the advertising " : ' ' !y r a v and do your buying from these sales. (Copyrighted.) |