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Show PIFFLE FOR CALLOW YOUTH Advice Handed Out by Successful Business Men Is, to Use a Slang Phrase, Bunk. A successful lumber merchant has been giving a newspaper interviewer a few of the mental wrinkles that influenced in-fluenced him in the making of money. Here are some of them : "If your initials spell a word it means you will be rich. "If, on the other hand, you mend a garment while wearing it, you will always al-ways be poor. "If your right hand Itches it is a sigu that you will receive money. If your left hand Itches you will spend it. This is because right begins with R and R stands for receive, while L tands for let go. "When you see a shooting star you should say 'money.' As many times as you are able to say the word during du-ring the fall of the star, so many extra ex-tra dollars will you y have in your pocket as a result." Helpful words, aren't they? Well, they are no better and no worse than the bulk of the talk handed out by successful men for the guidance of their fellows that is, in the matter of making money. The rich or successful suc-cessful business man doesn't discloss his real secrets If he has any though he often attends club luncheons lunch-eons or dinners and makes a speech pretending to do so. Philadelphia Record. |