Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-03-18
ECON0MY.
Some stories That show What DE.
Iasive Thing IL fs-Extrayaganct
ExGolIed.

! saws a writer IN no QUIZ ITulICiSCD
| Chronicle, but it's like dynamo-it's
a dangerous thing to fool with. A
great many people have been abso-
| iutely ruined By economy. Modern
economy may be described as the art
of buying a thing you don't want
cheap in preference TO pay ing decent
price for the thug you do want. Real
economy is getting the thing most you
need for the least money. Economy
is the better part of extravaganza. /
think extravaganza ought TO be en-
couraged. | believe it can be with
safety, because there are so few who
have money or credit enough to be
extravagant. The chances are that
when a fellows rich enough to be
extravagant he does not need to be
economical. Economy is, like virtue,
it's own reward, for | never card OF
anybody who got anything but per
haps little credit for being econom-
ical out of economy. There no fun
in it. There's a depressing sense Of
suffering in economy which lasts all
through, but extravaganza has a
splendid time, lots of fun, and when
you are "bust up again, recollection
and anticipation are both lively and
enjoyable. When you have keen
economical for a year and stinteG
yourself with great self-denial, it
doesn't add any comfort to your re
Elections when you reach a hard-up
stage.
"You wager your solemn existance,"
said fellow, I'm going to have as
much fun as | can out of this 81 900 !"
Now don't be fool said his friend.
Invest it, live easy, and you may
fad that the beginning of fortune. :"
my dear boy, you listen to me. l
was a hard working man once, max
ing a good income | stinted myself,
lived quietly, and saved every cent
could, / wanted to be millionaire.
Every dollar / made | pat into spec
ulation, and | carried stocks for
months. / made $4,000 | did not
touch it. / went on saving and saw
ing and doubling things up. Ny
broker was a bowling swell. He had
teams and swell rooms, and gave
champagne lunches and elaborate
dinners and wore magnificent clothes.
l said to myself, What darn fool
that fellow is. He's spending all his
money, and some day he'll need It, ,
| went on plodding and blodding. /
was worth 800, 900.
"Well, see, that's just what / say.
Then the broker went up and my
money with him. ! said 10 myself
You made a mistake in the fool,
young man. The broker was the wise
man. Now I'm going to have the
champagne breakfasts and let the
broker starve.
Women were made with the extrav-
aRant side out. believe women real
ly despise being called economical.
They are, all the same. Men 90 not
know what economy means. They
think to go without something you
can buy if you have the money is to
be economical A mans economy
consists in saying about something
he has 40 earthly use for, Il can't
afford it," When fellow spends IS
in drinks at night he walks home and
considers himself quite enough a sac
rlfce to economy because he has the
courage TO refuse to take mack. A
loses $50 at poker and nobly puts of
his proposed purchase of a new pair
of boots which he considers a set-oH.
The greatest phllanthropists will fee
the waiter at the restaurant with
dollar and wait ten minutes while a
bootblack goes to get hIs dime turned
to nicRels to give him change for
shine. A women will always give
more for a thing that she does not
want than for the thing she does.
The necessity OF getting it is enough
of a tax, and she will beat store
keeper down 10 nothing just to pro
test against that pecessity. When she
goes to buy something she does not
need she always feels that the store
clerk knows she doesn't need it, and
she is willing TO pay extra for the Iun
of having it. A woman will buy an
article she knows she has no use for,
and when she's got it she'll find some
use for il. A man will buy something
he thinks he needs and find out after
ward that he doesn't know what to do
with IT,
A great many people marry on that
principle. In Scotland people marry
for economy. They call it ecannymy.
That's why there are so few divorces
in Scotland. In England they marry
for money. In France they marry
for coRrenunce. In Germany they
marry for practical usefulness. In
Italy they marry for poetry. In Rus
STA they marry for ACKNOWLEDGEMENT,
In Holland they marry for lazlness.
In Spain they marry for love-maklng.
In Turkey they marry for occupation.
In China they marry for radiation.
In Janan they marry for virtue. In
New York they marry for style. Ia
Boston they marry for exclusiyeness.
In Chicago they marry for commun-
| ity of goods. In San Francisco they
marry for pure fun. In San Jose they
marry for change.
However, to turn to economy.
There is young housewife in San
Francisco who is Just now an enthus
iashc economist. She is not a pohti
cal economist, she may be better
described as a pie-litical economist,
She doesn't 60 much, However, on
her own experience. She has nus
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