The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1873-04-17
Can You Afford It?

Can YOU afford TO work hard all dav,
and read, study or court the vagaries
of society nearly all light, thus vast
Ing your vitality, eXhausting your
nervous system and bringing on pre-
mature disease, decay and old aye?
Can you afford to read fine print
with poor light in rail car, where
the motion disturbs the proper focus
of vision, thus weakening your eyes so
as to deprive Won Of the power to use
them either in reading or in daily du-
ties Of life! Even though you do not
have au ocnlist to pay. you may be
obliged to wear glasses ten or fifteen
years sooner than You would other
wise: can you thus afford TO spoil
your eyes to save little time?
Can you afford to eat hastily, and then
rush to study or business, withdraw
ing the nervous energy from digestive
system TO the brain and muscles, thus
inducing dyspepsia, in a few years at
most, to scourgc and haunt and make
you miserable for years, or for your
life?
Can you afford to live on rich and
highly seasoned food: cat champagne
suppers, because an artificial appetite
is thus gratified, rendering govt. dys-
pepsia or appolexy, in the middle Of
life. almost a a certainty!
Can You afford 10 commit suicide
through the indulgence of appetite
and passion. adopting the fools mot
to "A short life and a happy one"
Can YOU afford TO keep your brain
boiling hot i'm reading sensational nov
els, thus unbalancing and rendering
morbid your mental and physical con-
stiiution?
Can YOU afford to indulge in fast
living-dress beyond your means.
driving livery horses or keeping
horse vourself-when your income is
not adequate TO such expense?
Can you afford to smoke and chew
tobacco. thus spending from five to
fifty dollars a month aud injuring your
nervous system and pervcrting your
whole constitution. and thereby trans
hitting TO your children weakened
constitutions thus making them punv
lnvalids for life?
Can YOU afford TO burn your nervous
system and demoralizc your whole
character BY the use of alcoholic IL
quors!
Can YOU afford TO indulge in habits
of speculation, gamblin" and other
tricky, mean modes of making money?
Can Won afford TO make money at the
expense of yourmanhood, your morals,
your just responsibility and your in
fegrity?
Can Won afford TO gain even the
whole world and thereby Of make your
self Il moral wreck!
Can YOU afford, for the sake of mo-
mentary amusement. TO waste your
youthful preparatory wears. when, by
STUD M should become a scholar. or
BY industry tradcslaan or a useful
artisan.
clothc your back with silk and satins
and CRAFTY mere love for display!
Can you afford to be tricky, and
thereby defraud your employer of the
just services YOU owe him. even though |
you do get your pay, thus making
yourself moral bankrupt:
Can YOU afford TO be otherwise than
upright, truthful, temperate, courteous |
and in all respects correct!
Pupils in school sometimes fancy |
they are doing smart thing by dcceiv-
ing the teacher, that they may play in |
stead of study. Apprentices often neg |
lcct their duty for fun and amusement, |
and fail to learn their trade. which is Il |
injury to them. Many people |
do wrong knowingly, and thus mar |
their moral nature and make them
selves feel mean, unworthy and despi- |
cable: and because they don't want il, |
they think they have done them |
selves no harm-but they carry the
moral scar of wrong doing life.
Can You afford TO have motto adj
verse to the old adage, that Honesty |
is the best policy
Reader. stop and consider ifwhat you
are doing, or what You propose to do, |
will pay; whether yon can afford to do |
it. Time is money!" do not throw IL |
away, but make every day and every |
hour tell. either for your growth. |
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