Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-12-20
Iintolir Goul'tp 9duotatt,
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBERa 20, 1878.
Living Beyond Ones Means.

Spsndthrift extravaganza, either in feel
ing, work, hurry, riches.getting, or finery,
carries with it tho usual fruit of injustice
cruelty. We will leave to others to des-
cant On the cruelty of mans being in
such a hurry to get rich that no grasps
more than his share, sells uoxious goods,
As escapes from rotten speculation in Or
dsr 10 lot another In. Let US talk Of the
nors comm on fault Of living beyond ones
means; Of talking opera" when one
merely attends modest concerts; OF pre-
tending to love Wagner when one does not
understand Mozart; in short, as a divine
recently said, Of praying cream and liv-
Ing skim.milk," or-to put the phrase the
right way about-liying upon cream when
one can only pay for skim-milk.
This is u double cowardice and cruelty.
Any kind Of improvidence on mans part
h cruel to the women and children whom
he has about him. Whether man spends
bis surplus earnings-that which he has a
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
Is, indeed, in all of US enough uis Sntertig
to make industry unpleasant, and this in
trinity extravaganza strengthens hun
dzsdfold. And the poor victims have not
yet found an end Of their trouble; the dis
like 10 Vor,1 and to earn ones bread has
been accompanied by specious arguments
against werk and trade and lawful Gain
The ina lady at the piano somewhat de-
spisss the shop by which she gains the
piano: Such persons arc doubly crippled
and, from habit, thay do not even know
how to use money when they got it.
This Ignorance of actual value and tho
cost Of life-anxiety and wear and tear Of
mind end body in the bresd-sarner are
the cost--is accompanied, in young men,
by silly hopefulness in their own re-
sources of luck. They can sell a horse
and make a "co>l fifty" or do clever
piece of business, or bsyrow from benev-
olent old gentleman who won't bs 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 bushes, they undertake.,
they ANONYMOUSLY fail, and instead of
coming away from the benevolent senior
With tho loan they anticipated, they come
back with sn opinion rs to their conduct
conveyed in way that they do not care to
repent It is astonishing WHIST different
views one entersairs OF benevolent old
gentleman after one has tried to borrow of
them and has not succeeded.
cne fault Of the father of family and
tho mother too, though the world will
blsaa the man most--in liyiu: beyond
ones lDeans, is that thu childrsn get into
b habit Of ostsntatloasease and caze,cssnsss.
They nave no standard OF economy, tas3
dnd that people trust than, taat fine
e!oshss come somehow, and the y are CAKE
loss whence !hey come. Conscience does
nos get broken down, but it ge:s worn
away: Wee 70 tac poor snt, fairly educa-
ted girl. with . love of oase AID luxury,
who - suddenly lott peapiless aud isao.
sans aow to procsed, OF Of ito worlds
ways! Woe 70 She young fellow who has
apGospect OF properly, and who oats into
The hands Of tho money lenders How
msnT Sui1ed soll and &oz MANY p ruin.
% soul and how many ruined fortune
arc due to such Observation-Disclosures
Xontaly for December.