The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-29
TRUE ECONOMY.
Foolish Saving Which Is Every Bit as
Bad as Foolish Spending.

Foolish Saving Which Is Every Bit as
Bad as Foolish Spending.
There is quite as much foolish saw
ing as foolish spending, but the natur-
ally prudent mind does not at first see
this. The wisest way to obey Ben
Franklin is not to scare for the pence"
by boarding them. The cheapest is
not always that which costs the least
money. 1t is poor economy that saves
at the market and pays the doctor.
The books that cost the least are not
always the most economical to buy
The over-work of the house-mother,
when the children are young, to save
the wage of servant, and in old age
be able to live only at a ''poor, dying
rate" with always a nurse or physician
in attendance, is poor way to make
the pounds take care of themselves. -
To bend over the children's garments
until sight and health fail, to save the
price of a few pairs of French kid boots
going to a seamstresS, is neither ecoR-
omy, frugality nor common sense. The
starving the intellect by putting the
price of a. few books where it will
'draw interest," is a poor economy Of
the means given for to-day's use True
economy is wise spending as well as
wise saving. Economy is virtue;
parsimony is vice. The one who
practices the first is rich; the one who
practices the latter, though he have
millions, is always poor. The one who
practices the first will eat wholesome
food, and wear as comfortable gar
ments as he can afford, all the while
feeling that what he can not have he
dyspepsia at fifteen-cent lunch eoun-
tiers, look like a walking advertisement
of an ''old clos" dealer, constantly
wanting what he will not procure, and
pass his time in continual worry lest
he spent his old age in the poor-house.
As we go over this road but once, we
must get all the comfort out of life to-
day that we ever expect to get for this
day. Our children are never children
but once, and if theirl ives are made
hard and barren that we may practice
for them false economy. saving for
some future day which they may new
er see, the day will surely come when
we shall wish that we could undo what
time hes taken from our reach.
Real poverty is to go through life
starved for the good things of this
world. But let us not mistake what
the 'good" is. We are not thinking
of riches, or fame, or beauty, or dress,
when we use the word ''good." We
were thinking of the books almost
within ones reach, and for which tho
mind hungers with keener sensation
that experienced from physical hun
ger; of the hunger for privileges de-
MED because the toiling and spinning
of the six days has made the body so
weary that entire physical rest for the
Sabbath is an absolute necessity.
Starved for comfortable home-as
simply comfortable as one may devise
and all through life sit upon a hard
chair, look upon bare walls, and walk
upon dingy floors; we know of men
and women who do this that they may
accumulate more land, more stock;
that they may tear down and build
larger. Economy is a wise saving;
economy IS wise spending. The
misery moral proverb: Take care
of the pence and the pounds will take
care of themselves, may be true, but
it is true, also, that there are many
who in trying to save life only lose
it, Christian Union.