Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-12-20
4intollt QEeupipp 9drataa!te.
A Living Beyond onss Means.


6psndthrift cxtrsvsggnee, either in feel
ing, work, hurry, richss,getting, OF fnsry,
carries with 1t the usual fruit Of injustice
erUslty. We viii leave to others to des-
cant On the cruelty Of : mans being in
sach a hurry to get rich that hs grasps
more than his share. soils uoxious goods,
O. escapes from rotten speculation in Or.
~ 70 lst another Ia. Lot us talk Of The
aofs common fault Of living beyond ones
0sans Of talking Opera" when one
merely attends modest concerts; OF pre-
landing t. love Wagner when one does not
\ understand Mozart; In short, as 9 divine
recently said, of praying cream and liv-
Ing skim.milk, !" or--to put the phrase the
right way about living upon cream when
one can only pay for skim-milk.
This 10 double cowardice and cruelty.
Any kind Of improvidence On mans part
y cruel to the women aud children whom
he has about him. Whether man spends
his surplus earnings that which he has q
right to put by-in drink or in show he
does wrong His family, dependent on
him,and almost helpless, very likely be-.
come his lifelong victims. In assuming
riches, the girls have, Of course, assumed
that careless and ignorant idleness which
some think adorns riches, have crippled
themselves against exertion, have blinded
themselves so that they cannot see There
10, indeed, in all Of us enough us Satertsy
TO make industry unpleasant, and this in
trinity extrayagance strengthens 4 hun
drsdfold. And the poor victims have not
yet found an end Of their trouble; the dis
like 10 work and to earn ones bread has
bean accompanied b. specious arguments
against work and trade and lawful gain.
The ma lady at the piano somewhat de-
spisss the shop by which she gains the
piano. Such persons are doubly crippled,
and, from habit, they do not even know
how to use money when they get it.
This ignorance of actual value and tho
cost OF liie-anxiety and wear and tear Of
mind end body in the bresd-sarner are
The cost-is accompanied, in young men,
by 8 silly hoPefulness in their own re-
sources Of luck. They can sell horse
and make ''coel fifty" or do clever
piece of business, or borrow from banev-
olent old gentleman who won't be in any
hurry flor his money''-that is, they can
make the attempt; but then, instead OF
making fifty, they lose ten, instead of sue
cseding at the business they undertake,
they ignominiouslY fail, and instead of
coming away from the benevolent senior
with the loan they anticipated. they come
back with en- opinion rs to their conduct
conveyed in . way that they do not care to
repent. It is astonishing Whist different
views ens entersains Of benevolent old
gentleman after one has tried to Borrow of
them and has not succ3ede6.
One fault of the father of afanily- and
the mother too, though the world will
blame the man nost-in living beyond
ones means, is that the children get into
habit of OBSERVATIONS ease and cayeleasnsss.
They have no standard Of economy, ths7
fnd that people trust them, that fine
clothes come somehow, and they are care
less whence they come. Conscience does
not get broken down, but 1t gs.s worn
away Woe TO the poor and fairly educa-
ted girl, with . love of Gaze aad luxury,
who = suddsnly lett penniless and isao.
rant aow to procasd, or Of tho worlds
ways! Woe to she young fellow who has
apSospect OF properly, and who gats into
The hands Of the money lenders! How
msnY Q ruined soul and hoz many . ruin.
- soul and hou mary aruined fortune
are duo to such sntocedents.-D Democrats
Aoethly for December.