The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1885-08-08
FALSE ECONOMY.


Seek the poorest for economy's sake,
Live on the cheapest. Dress cheaply.
Get yourself cheap lodgings where
CRIME and squalor prevail.
| BY so dongyou will put on the atmos-
! phere Of poverty as you. do yodr over
coat and carry it with you as one of the
signs revealing the very condition YOU
want aud 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 dollar for a few days"
This ought not to be so. But It fsso
This is not homily on fancies but one
| on facts f 80
There Is quite as much reckless saving
in this world as reckless spending. AS
when 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
mnd IN the best condition, and not in
rammlng every nickel yonr fist closes
over down rat hole, while you suffer
and weaken for what it could buy "a :,
l 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 law for culti-
waiting this sort of poverty as fixed in its
working as the law which, carries the
srrth 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 hclp |
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 richp A man with a
million may live feeling as s.poor as
poverty;" scared half to death every
time he takes out his pocketbook for a
necessary outlay; distressing himself by
ne hour with the thought that his last
purchase of dollars worth at one shop.
night have been secured for ninety
'ents at another; starving his stomach
WITH lndigestible ten-cent lunches and |
tudylng what he calls economy until
economy has turned into miserliness.
Another man buys what he needs.
reats himself to the best he can find and
ford, treats his body to decent food and
lothing and gets lots of good out of I
lem as he goes along. .4tls 80
Which is the richer of the, two?
what do you want? To feel miserably !
oor all your days on earth that you may :
die poor as poverty" though worth I
he million you have scraped together .
trough starving your body, starving +
our tastes, scrimping, cheese pairing 8
ID living In such dread of poverty that d
~ nave become a money boarding D
onomaniac, distressed by the money q
1pes every time you open your purse n
r car fare. =
TO unshaven to-day to save the bar +,
r s fee, and You feel unshaven and nm ~
esentable. That is the very dav YOU h,
IL meet the man on whom you desire
make favorable impression, and who
~ take stock of your stubby beard
q judge you thereby. Buy the cheaper
pes or the cheaper coat or hat to save of
few dollars, and you buy so MANY Oh
zap signs which will let YOU out and
Up you out of the class who might be c.
st useful to you, as you might IN turn w vi
o be to them. WI
man bred to miserlv morality and ~
Ned full in his youth of Ben Franklin's Go,
xIms provocative of economical stary- 90
On. went to strange place in search -,
business, having in his pocket 800. asi
economy $ sake he put up at third s;a
3 hotel, where grease and ranciditv Pit
le nm half-sick and sallow.- For say
nomy.s sake he kept on wearing a "o
OF clothes yerging on seedineSs. =
n an expenditure Of $40 on apparel quo
Id have made him outwardly n SIX
more presentable person. Week no
week he grew outwardly at
e seedy and inwartlly more sick. cho
further from the situation he SOUGHT dol
his clothes and his third rate bear Nv.
md address, coming of stopping AZ =
rd-rate hotel, enveloped him with . who
l-rate atmosphere and created for of a
win Others third-rate impression. Sou
IS hundred dollars dwindled and who
aied away on this basis of economy Go
ne could not purchase new suit IN E
'thes, while those he wore became
less and less presentable.ss As he aske
ne less presentable he had less and was
ace 10 present himself to the kind fami
'ople most necessary for him to mini
NOR
second man coming to the same she {
On similar GRAND chose better salar
"a more expensive lodgings and eat +
BY got himself among and was ~. J
y men among more respectable :.
Of people. He. also, had but 500 Coun
world, but when he saw in his two 5
" Signs OF wear and tear and game
coming, he said to himself: s.fT case
e fifty dollar suit of clothino. himst
q l get nothing to do, / shall have other
parei. anyway, and that's better Spur
IS basis to stand on than a seedy IN ia
take I
any man OF the world which of game,
Q was most likely to .'get along" graph
AXE his way. 70
ke care of the pence and the swain
VIII take care of themselyes.'' say tn
our careful old man of money. eases