The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-09
ECONOMY IN LITTLE THINGS.

gentleman at Taunton. Massachusetts,,
has shown us savings-bank book
which teaches a lesson TO those who
despise the day of small things. A
deposit of twenty dollars, placed for
him by his grandfather in savings
bank at Newport, Rhode Island. in
1827-and afterward increased to thirty
dollars. by the addition of ten dollars,
in 1832-amounted in 1874 to over four
hundred dollars.
Our rising generation should be re-
minded that there is no virtue so easy
of practice. and yet so recklessly disre-
garded, as economy in little things.
Steady. small savings grow into indie
pendence so easily that it is more than
wonderful to hear persons who have
power to make them complain of how
hard the world goes with them. A
Young fellow with ten-cent cigar in
his mouth-some three of which he
will smoke in day-will unblushingly
say he cannot make both ends meet,
any way he can manage. the while he
is putting off in smoke the very means
through which he could be rich in this
worlds goods.
Samuel Lee, Professor of Hebrew at
the University of Cambridge. England,
was seventeen years of age before he
conceived the idea of learning foreign
languages; out of the scanty pittance OF
his weekly earnings as a carpenter he
purchased book, and when this was
read he exchanged it for another, and
thus he advanced in knowledge. He
had not even the privilege of balancing
between reading and relaxation. but
was obliged to pass directly from bodily
fatigue to mental exertion. During the
six years previous to his twenty-fifth
year he omitted none of the hours usu-
ally appropriated to manual labor, and
he retired to rest regularly at ten o clock
in the evening; and yet, at the age of
thirty-one years, he had actually learned
seventeen languages!
This illustrates the value of spare
minutes. Many careless people waste
more time every day than is needed to
make them masters of science, If well
used. Some great works have been
written in intervals of ten or fifteen
minutes from regular employments.
ANY young person who will find an
hour day for reading can easily &C.
quire large learning. Try what you
can do. Begin now. In after years
you will look back upon the task as the
most pleasant and profitable you ever
performed.
Sir Ashley Cooper had. perhaps, the
largest income ever received by q sur
geon in England. 1t amounted in some
Years to about $4,000. But only
through great hardships did he reach
this wonderful success. When stu
dent in the Edinburgh University, he
lived in a very modest way in a third
story room, at an expense of about q
dollar and half a week. The first year
after he settled in London his whole
income amounted to only taoenty-fve
dollars!
We are told that well-known Ameri.
can professor once entertained Prof.
Agassiz on dinner consisting OF pota'
toes and salt. Three times week. fol
many years, this custom had been kept
ND, whoever CHANGED to be present; and
the saving thus made had been judi.
ciouslv invested in books, till the Pro.
lessor owned magnificent library.
The late Empress of Germany wa
one of the most simply dressed o.
women. except on occasions of cere
mony. Her dry-goods bills are said tt
have been less than those of the wives
of many merchants. She often drove
out in q calico dress. And vet she wa.
very liberal in her gifts. The Princes
Bismarck, fresh and comely, though
nearly seventy, superintends her farm
work, goes about the house with grea
bunch of keys at her girdle, watchfu
of the family expenditures, and hel
house filled with knitted quilts and sucl
like. the evidence of her skill and in
dustry.
At Client, in Belgium, an experiment
has been made, which has been at
tended, it is said, with very good re
suits. A gentleman who felt deepl!
concerned at the large amount of none!
wasted by children, and the careless
improvident habits thus early acquired
bv them went round to all the publi
schools, and, after talking to tn
scholars on the subject. made arrange
ments with the teachers to receive al
the money which the children might b.
willing to intrust to them.
When this reached certain amour
it was deposited in one of the cit
banks. When a pupils savings ha'
thus reach one franc (twenty cents)
he was to receive q bank book, and b
allowed three per cent. interest by tn
Bank of Belgium. The plan has me
with entire success. The childre
now save their money instead of spend
ing it foolishly. and by the time the
leave school have often large SUI
wherewith to enter into business, Q
procure an outfit. 1t is well know
that it is not those who have the mos
: money who spend the most on candy
, cakes, peanuts, ETC., things which do n
[ good, and often cause positive injury
! The health. Besides the money savet
!. which may be very useful in time
need, the habits of self denial and econt