| Show saving against starving tho new york kvenby post gays A young man a clerk in ono of the wall street moneyed institutions applied to one of our distinguished merchants who is a director and asked him for his influence to get his salary raised the merchant said to him how much is your salary now twelve hundred dollars was the answer question how much do you savo a year Answer Not one dollar with a difo and two children I can only make both ends meet Q dont bare A no sir I can but just exist Q I mako it a rule to assist no who does not save something bom ething every year no matter how small his pay something be saved how many cigars do you smoke and their coat A well some three a day costing together about twenty cents Q do you go to the theartres theatres the atres and how often and how many persons with you A I go some half down times during the winter with wife and sister costing inc including luling railroad fare say 30 Q io you drink ardent spirits wine beer etc A I generally take two SM of whisky daily and sometimes a glass of ale with ray wife at the gardens in the evening bo you say you cannot save anything while your unnecessary yearly expense for cigars drinks and amusements by your own showing cannot cost less than until you begin to save raising your salary would do yu no good begin to day to save if only five cents a day try saving for six months and report to me the result at the end of the time lie young man brought the merchant his expenses book showing a clear savin 20 this induced the merchant to take him cordially by the hand down to the institution and urged the president to increase his salary from 1200 to 1500 in another six months his saving amounted to almost the merchant on his showing said to him young man you are now on the road to wealth and position go down to my brokers and ask him to buy worth of such and such stocks and I will pay for them and give you the profits this young man is now worth some all due to the saving of the first the merchant no doubt is now daily made happy every time he sees the institution by the delightful re of having saved this man as well as his family there are now hundred of families in this city who are highly cul tiva ted that do not know where their next meal is coming from could they have had the advice of this old merchant and followed it they would now be in affluence not beggary only yesterday a highly respectably respect abla lady with three young daughters applied for assistance to buy bread lie husband had recently died after ig a salary for twenty years of from 2500 to without having saved anything the practical result of this cabe is that this hajy for twenty years has secured every luxury within her reach while I am indebted for all I have now to the denial of luxuries for myself and family and am now ask ed to help to support her out of my savings such as she would not make tor herself with her present views of economy she sees how she could nave lived on had she done so it would amount to some fifty thousand dollars the interest of chich would have made her and liar children independent for life such cases do not commend themselves to aay charity uch people must bo taught hy natural law that they or be liable to starve |
