The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-05-21
FALSE ECONOMY.

course, have no NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Tryon, in Harper's Weekly.
FALSE ECONOMY.
Some Pertinent Reflections by an Old
Writer from the Pacific Slope Who
Knows what He is Writing About.
Seek the poorest for economy's sake.
Live on the cheapest. Dress cheaply.
Get yourself cheap lodgings where
CRIME and squalor prevail.
By SO doing you will put on the atmos-
phere of poverty as you do your over
coat and carry it with you as n of the
signs revealing the very condition you
want and need to conceal. Poverty
will drive most people from you. They
are afraid of you. They feel in your
presence the possible request of ''Lend
me a dollar for a few days."
This ought not to be so. But it is so.
This is not a homily on fancies but n
on facts.
There is quite as much reckless saving
in this world as reckless spending. As
when a man walks three or four miles
to save a fare, and thereby walks the
strength out of mind and body, that he
needed for some important purpose.
That's one of the ways of keeping poor.
Take care of your pence in taking good
care of yourself and keeping body and
mind in the best condition, and not in
ramming every nickel your fist closes
over down a rat hole, while you suffer
and weaken for what it could buy.
1 think real poverty means starving
ones self of the good things OF this
world or being starved for lack of them,
as YOU please. There's a law for Guilt
tating this sort of poverty as fixed in it's
working as the law which carries the
errth around the sun. Make up your
mind that you won't abide this sort of
poverty and so act as opportunities pre-
sent themselves, and see if elements
and agencies do not come to you to help
you enjoy life as you live. Only there
is presumed on your part sufficient sense
to know such elements and agencies and
also to know how to use them.
Who are the rich? A man with a
million may live feeling as poor as
poverty scared half to death every
time he takes out his pocketbook for a
necessary outlay; distressing himself by
the hour with the thought that his last
purchase of a dollars worth at one shop
might have been secured for ninety
cents at another; starving his stomach
with ~indigestible ten-cent lunches and
studying what he calls ECONOMY" until
economy has turned into miserliness.
Another man buys what he needs,
treats himself to the best he can find and
afford, treats his body to decentfood and
clothing and gets lots of good out OF
thea as he goes along.
Which is the richer of the twoP
What do you wantP To feel miserably
poor all your days on earth that you may
so die 'poor as poverty" though worth
the million you have scraped together
through starving your body, starving
your tastes, scrimping, cheese-paring
and living in such dread of poverty that
YOU have become a money boarding
monomaniac, distressed by the money
gripes every time you open your purse
for a car fare.
Go unshaven to-day to save the bar
ber's fee, and you feel unshaven and un'
presentable. That is the very day yor
will meet the man on whom you desire
to make a favorable impression, and who
may take stock of your stubby beard
and Judge you thereby. Buy the cheaper
shoes or the cheaper coat or hat to save
a few dollars, and you buy so many
cheap signs which will let you out anc
keep you out of the class who might bt
most useful to you, IS you might in TURF
also be to them.
A mar bred to misery morality ant
stuffed full in his youth of Ben Franklin
maxims provocative of economical starv
alton, went to a strange place in search
of business, having in his pocket 800
For economy's sake he put up at a third
class hotel, where grease and rancidit.
made him half-sick and sallow. Fo
economy's sake he kept on wearing
suit of clothes verging on seediness
when an expenditure of $40 on appare
would have made him outwardly
far more p~resentable person. Weel
after week he grew outward,
more seedy and inwardly more sick
and further from the situation he sought
> for his clothes and his third rate bear
: ing and address, coming of stopping a
: a third-rate hotel, enveloped him with
third-rate atmosphere and created TO
him with others a third-rate impression
So his hundred dollars dwindled ant
dwindled away on this basis of econom,
until he could not purchase a new sui
of clothes, while those he wore becam
daily less and less ~presentable. AS b
became less ~presentable he had less an
less face to present himself to the kin
of people most necessary for him
, seek.
The second man coming to the sam
| place on a similar errand chose bette
T though more expensive lodgings an
thereby got himself among and wa
seen of men among a more respectabl
, class of people. He, also, had but SIC
. in the world, but when he saw in b
, , clothing signs of wear and tear an
more coming. he said to himself: 'If
t buy me a fifty dollar suit of clothing
though l get nothing to do, l shall hay
; the apparel. anyway, and that's a bette
business basis to stand on than a seed
+ suit"
Ask N man of the world which
the two was most likely to get along
> and make his way.
a Take care of the pence" and tt
pounds will take care of themselves.
says your careful old mar of none,
True! But are you taking care of tt
e pence when for economy's sake yo
dose yourself with the dirt and ranci'
!, nNity of a slop-dish restaurant Are yc
taking care of yourself? Won't POI
# living make you poorerP There is
h pretty straight path for many betwee
le poor feeding and poor whisky. Are nj
pence very profitably expended in ia
b ing good care of yourself?-Premti
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