Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-08-09
ONE WAY OF EcONOMIzINa.
A Swell Tells How He Saves Money
by Going into Society.
He Gets his Dinner for Nothing Five Times
aWeek---Adyantages Of Club
Connections here and
in England.
Nstr York SNn.


year by clerking in Wall street bank
ing house2" said young man we'll known
in New York society, repeating question
which had been put to him by friend. "Be-
cause find it economical"
"How so2'
Because by going into society manage
to have my acquaintsnces pay large share
OF my living expenses
"In hard cashT'
mo; nor IN soft cash either, Let me ex-
plain. / can say without exsgsrstion that
curing the season, say from October to Lent
and from Lent until society people leave
own for the summer, | rarely have TO pay
for dinner. A light breakfast and an IN
extensive lunch down town are the only
meals am obliged to pay for. You will
understand this when say that during the
social season am asked to dinner six times
g week on an average. l can always, there
fore, depend on free dinners at least five
times q week.
More frequently than that, should think,
| if you get six invitations week, suggest
| ed ais friend
No confound it; because sometimes /
| ave two invitations for the same evening,
| hat usually cuts me out OF one OF the six
dinners m invited to. It's a great shame,
| out i'll one of those exigencies you have to
put up with il you're making about fifty per
cent of your living out of society"
DO YOU eat enough at your,dinners to be
able to scrimp yourself at your breakfasts
and lunchesH'
II can't be said to scrimp myself, because
I couldn't eat more even if | wanted to.
You see, nearly always have some party
or ball on hand after the dinners. AT these
balls and parties / always take a late sup.
per. A fellow doesn't care for heavy
breakfast when he's had supper late the
night before. | have q coffee machine in
my loom and have couple of rolls LETT for
NE with the janitor of the house. make
myself cup Of coffee, and this with the rolls
constitutes my breakfast lcouldn't cot more
because have very little appetite in the
morning. At lunch am pretty hungry, but
| [ take a light lunch because | dom want to
spoil my appetite for dinner. When you
snow you are going TO have the fat OF the
lard and The cream of the vintage SGT De-
fore You in ne evening you don't care 10
pills your chances Of enjoying 1t. Did you
! . e. read Buiwvrs lament over lost Ape
;t-? he mourns il as tire ole irretricvaoe
CTS which can mar you life An opportu
rty disregarded may turn up again. money
swallowed up in speculation may come
back on the turn Of luck, and so on, but
lost appetite is lost forever. | believe IL
hat. Therefore nurse my appetite ten
DERBY unless | know that the dinner | am
going 10 won't be a."
Then your swell friends don't always give
Al diDners?'
my dear fellow, dinner giving is an art
which few people understand. In many
houses the arrangement OF dinner IS LETT
entirely to the cook. If the people have
rood taste, they know enough to have an
artist in the kitchen But there are lots OF
people who have money and very little taste
They get imposed on and pay large sums
10 cooks who are not worth half their sal
4ries. The most frequent mistakes are made
With ID. wines. Just think Of having c!aret
With your Blue Poiuts or Little Necks
shocking, isu't il? Yet mistakes like that
are constantly made
Il suppose when you get invitations tor
be same evening TO dinner you know will
ne AL and another you know will be only
| AZ, you always accept the formerY
The bother of it is the invitation for the
latter may have cone in CARRIER than Tor the
former, and may have been accepted. Alb,
my dear fellow there are some bitter disap-
| continents in this life
when you get an invitation can't you
wait before accepting it long enough to give
seurself chance of accepting better onef
NO; cant afford to run any risks
"But how do you manage in summer when
| the society people are IN the country and
| the dinner invitations are floating aroundr
We'll, that is rather an expensive season
for me, but make up some what during my
two weeks vacation. | always have an in
vitation for Newport, Lenox, or yachting
cruise, and during that fortnight | am at no
expense whatever. II / only didn't have to
work for my 81 500, and that sum were
sort OF annuity could live al summer Tor
nothing. Why, know many men OF leis-
| are who spend the entire summer by inVl-
sron at their friends houses or on their
7athts. That's pretty cheap living ism i'll
1T certainly lie, replied the speaker &
| friend, "but not way, should think, in
#hich man OF self respect would care to
| i've
Ny dear fellow, don't think M lfes a
| olessanl one. don't 60 to dinners and
oa,ties because ! enjoy them. Many and
many a time ID ike TO spend the evening
| Juieily al home But can't afford it. l m
5bIiged to 60 into society for economy
sake"
But why if you 90 into society do you
belong to swell club? Isn't that great
expense|
Not nearly as great az the advantages
| the club offers. In the first place when N
not invited out to dinner, especially in SUM-
ner, can always get good dinner a: 10"
| rates at the CLUB. But that is nothing to the
chief advantage. The facility of getting
credit with your tailor, hsberdasher shoe.
maker. and florist, which results from your
| connection with swell club is the Chief
point in its favor.
1T doesr't enable you, tough to pay the
people from whom you get credit, does ~
No. it doesn't. But, my dear fellow, that
isn't necessary. If you are able to make
.msll payments on account no one Will
bother YOU. Why, man who pays ten per
cent Of what he buys not only lives free
rom duus but be will actually have trades,
men running after him for custom. o.
course in England, if young man IL
we'll connected tradesmen will clothe him
Tor nothing It's an easy matter for young
Engfishmsn of good connections TO live like
a millionaire on small income
How does he mansgeitY'
ut results from the system Of e1tsilment
Of estates prevalent in England. There ia
always a chance, often of course very re.
mote one, Of a young EDghshman related
20 the holder Of an estate succeeding TO Il
For instatce, Lord Randolph Churchill wil!
probably succeed to the Duke Of Marl6or'
oughs title and estate, as the Dukes only
son. the Marquis of Blsadford, is q very
sickly lad The chance Of succession Is
the contingency upon which the young En-