Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1915-07-23 | Page 6 | Rich Man's Fad

Rich Man's Fad. "Speaking of starting things and not finishing them." said a New York business busi-ness man. "See that old fellow over there?" pointing to a gray-haired, stalwart-looking man, "that's Colonel Plank, whose fortune runs in the seven figures. He has a curious habit of carrying a memorandum book around w ith him and whenever he spends any money he jots down the figures. One day I got talking to him about it and he pulled the book out of his pocket to show me. What was my amaze incut on looking at it to discover that not one of the pngoa was totaled up. I asked him. naturally, whether be never added the columns to find how much he was spending, lie told me that he did not and never had; the practice was too discouraging. A sense of duty impelled him to put down the Items, but there he stopped. An interesting inter-esting man, although a trifle eccentric."