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Show I; MAN WHO SAVES IS ALWAYS I READY FOR OPPORTUNITIES I' v I Greatest Force in the World Is Available Cash J Small Foundations for Many Great Fortunes. M '; Ready cash 13 the greatest moving H s 1 force in tho business world. Many H 1 , a man can date the beginning of his H t life's failure from tho day he lirst felt H f the dire need of a little ready cash, U 3 and was forced to borrow it. jM f Others, who could not borrow, jH :t missed the great opportunity of their jM u lives to get a start on the road to ln- H & dependence and wealth. M 9 Commodore Vanderbllt worked night H f and day, saving, saving every penny HI I until ho had $3,000, then, with this SI 0 amount In cash ho was enabled to D vi buy the business that was to be tbo B cornorstono of his Immense fortune. M a When tho children of today aro ho- H I ing regaled with tho time-worn story H !l of George Washington's little hatchet H ' it would be a splendid plan to vary H ;'i the theme by telling them of George H '? Washington's little account book. H tf Krom boyhood ho kept tho strictest H tj account of his expenditures, being H y careful each week to show an Jneroase H V, in tho "cash on hand." H I Independence In Bank Account. H I , Tho boy or man with some ready H money in tho bank has a feeling of H healthy independence to be secured H ' in no other way. M 1 How many of ns are there who Hj ' cannot recall the time when we havo H , I been forced to say, "Oh, if I only H had a llttlo money to start with, I H could make a fortuno?" H "There Is a tldo in the affairs of B man, which, taken at tho flood, leads H . ' on to fortune." Ask tho great flnan- H - cicrs of today whether they doubt H ; the truth of the statement Our HI merchant princes, our mino owners, I our land holders, any and all of tho men who havo accumulated great .woalth will tell you that the first change in the tido of their affairs was duo to the careful investment .of a little money. , How would the late Marshall Field havo bought an Interest in tho firm by whom ho was employed If ho had not saved and accumulated a lew thousand dollars of available cash? John Wanamaker Is another man who from a salary of $1 50 a week, saved ten cents a day car fare by walking four miles to and from work, laying tho ten cents away, hoping some day to haves enough money t buy himself a business that would allow him to Tide in his own carriage Debt Is World's. Not all of us can be VandcrWlts, Wanamakers or Marshall Fields, hut the experience of these great money kings point out the way to money-making money-making and money-keeping, and most of us can. If wo will, go to a reasonable reason-able length in that direction. There axo philosophers that contend con-tend that the greatest curse In the world today is debt, and this debt Is fed and nourished by the gTeat army of spenders who prefer to bo constantly con-stantly harassed by debt than to lay up for the future by paying and saving, sav-ing, with cash. Such a course always spoils failure. Therefore, friend, lot not you and me he counted among the class of profllgate-s and debt-burdened unfortunates, unfor-tunates, but let us Instead begin now, at once, to build for ourselves an independent in-dependent future, a comfortable old age, BERTHA A. RICH |
