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Show I "Don't tx estravexaiit," unlit the I prosperous ImsUiesa man as hla see- 1 rotary look pair of aheara atil frepared In rut tlm atrlna: that tied Ilia einreae parkaite. "If you rut that trine. yu will mkiII It. trntle liar li-ar lot nio. I Ruess I in more nurd lu It than you art." Thn k n irt waa a haul uno anil tha prosperous business man aalil several things under hla liri'ath as he fiittilileil anil plrVM at It. Thn serrefary wateluut him with an nitiusiil atnlln. whlc-h tho pnmiMtntiia liuMnesa man dntortfil aa hn at taut lisiseiied tlm Untied string ami looked up In triumph. "Tliiire!" ho aalil "Ynu were launh-Iur launh-Iur at mi, yonnit man." Tha seeretary l.xike.1 a llttla foolish. fool-ish. "Welt," aald the prosperous liusl-m liusl-m man. "I don't l.laino you If you were. 1 otiKht in Im laiiKlit'd at Ita junt a fool hahlt of mine, thouiili. Did you ever read a atnry aliout a piere of strlwsT" . "I don't recall It," repliei) the sikto- tary. It was fluy do aoma Fremh any who wrote, II," aald thn proaper-oua proaper-oua business man. "It wna a piece of alrlnx that gave a man a lot of aTTlff." " You're, nt atrliiKlnn me, I hop," aald thn secretary. "You'll get to the enil of youra If ynu make any morn breaks Ilka that," aald hla employer severely. "I'll tell you ahout Ihla, thougn, because you 1 are young yot and It may prove a warnlnit to you. My father waa an economical man before Ins. Had alk ton or firteon blocks to aava carfarn and buy Sfi ion la' worth of cooling lluuld to refrmh himself after tho walk that aort of an economist. One day ho aaw me cut a airing that came around a package of dried apples ap-ples and he remonstrated with me on my eitravagance." "I tuppiwo It want In at one car and out of the othorT" ' It illiln't go In the ear It lit on I and niailo It alng" "You had a musical ear, then." "I wish you wouldn't Interrupt," aald the proHperoua business man tea-tlly. tea-tlly. "It mnile an Impression any way. Il told me that It I didn't an-liilrn an-liilrn lialilia of tin irt I'd end up In tho ponrhnuse. I In quoted a proverb or tried to makn mn think he quoted It. There waa another package In he opened and hn rarnfiilly untied It, rolled thn Hiring around hla outspread flngera and tied It In a neat akeln like Ihla." The prospermia business man Ulna (rated with tho atrlug that tamo around tho expreaa parkBgo. "Thai's all right," aald tho secretary, approvlnuly. "Now when you want a piece of airing you've got It." "That'e what my father observed. My own espcrlenco hasu't JustMeil tho observation. When I want a piece of airing I haven't got It. 1 throw tha akeln In a drawer usually, but when I go to look for It It lan't there." "Why don't you throw It away In the flint place, then?" Inquired the aeere-tary. aeere-tary. "For tho anme reason that yon will never bu able to overromo your hahlt of asking fool questions. It'a all hohlt. 1 illiln't have a knlfn with me the next tltnn I had occasion to open a package, and I then remembered that It waa a very wicked thing to rut a tiaeful piece of it ring and I untied IL Boon I found myself untying another packagn and It grow Into a habit Now It hurt mn to ao anyliody take a knife or aelaitora to a piece of airing. "Mut I dou't delude myaelf with the Idea that It la economy. I auppoae I have wanted hundreda of dollara' worth of time In untying hard knota, I to aay nothing of thn temper I bave loat and tho languago I have mlauaed, and I auppoae 25 rcnta would more than cover the valuo of what I bave aaved. Don't try to bo economical : If you would be wealthy." I |