The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-03-27
ECON ON Y.
Some Stories That Show What "A Delusive
Thing II Is-Extravagance ExtoIled.

IL dangerous INlng 10 1901 Wltn- a
great many people have been absolute
ly ruined by economy. Modern econ
omy may be described as the art of
buying a thing You don't want cheap
IN preference to paying a decent price
for the thing you do want. Real econ
omy is getting the most you need for
the least money. Economy is the bet
| ter part OF extravaganza. | think ex-
| travaganCe ought to be encouraged
| believe it cSn be with safety, because
there are so few who have money or
credit enough to be eextraVagant. The
chances are that when fellows rich
enough to be extravagant he does not
need to be economical. Economy iS,
| like virtue, its own reward, for | never
| heard OF anybody who got anything
! but perhaps q little credit for being
economical out OF economy. There's
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, recol-
! lection and anticipation are both live
/ ly and enjoyable. When you have
/ been economical for a year and stinted
yourself with great self-denial, it
doesn't add any comfort to your refec-
tlOns when you reach a hard-up stage.
/ "NOu wager your solemn existence"
| said fellow, "Im going to have as
much fun as | can out OF this 81, GOO"
"Now don't be q fool" said his
! friend. ''Invest it, live easy, and you
may find this the beginning OF for
! tune"
"My dear boy, you listen to me. |
was hard-working man once, making
a good income. / stinted myself, lived
| quietly, and saved every cent / could.
| | wanted to be millionaire. Every
| dollar | made, put into speculation,
and | carried stocks for months.
made $4,000 / did not touch it.
went on saving and saving and doub-
| ling things up. My broker was a howl
| ing swell. He had teams and swell
rooms, and gave champagne lunches
| and elaborate dinners and wore mag
nificent clothes. I said to myself,
| What darn foolthat fellow is. He's
| spending all his money and some day
! he'll need it. | went on plOdding and
| plodding. | was worth 800, 900.
| "Well, see, that's Just what ] say.
! Then the broker went up and my
money with him. | said to myself:
| You made amistakein thefoOl, young
man. The broker was the wise man.
Now, I'm going to havethe champagne
! breakfasts and le5 the broker starve.'
Women were made with the extrav-
| agant side out. | believe women
really despise being called economical.
They are, all the same. Men don't
know what economy means. They
| think to go without something yOuCan
! buy if you have the money IS to be
| economical. a mans economy con-
sists in saying about something he has
no earthly use for, Il cannot afford
| it." When fellow spends s. IN drinks
| at night he walks home and considers
| himself quite enough q sacrifice to
economy because he mas the courage
| to refuse to take a hack. A man loses
| $50 at poker and nobly puts off his
| proposed purchase Of a new pair Of
| boots, which he considers a set-off
| The greatest OF philanthrOpists will
| fee the waiter at the restaurant with
| a dollar and wait ten minutes while a
| bOotblack goes to get his dime turned
| to nickels to give him change for a
| shine. A woman viii always give
more for a thing that she does not
want than for the thing she does. The
necessity OF getting it is quite enough
OF tax, and she will beat q store
keeper down to nothing just to pro
test against that necessity. 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 fun
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 it. A man will buy something
he thinks heneeds and finds out after
ward that he doesn't know what to
do with it.
A great many peOpie 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
| cOnvenance. In Germany they marry
| for practical usefulness. In Italy they
marry for poetry. In Russia they
marry for aggrandizement. I'm Hol-
land they marry for laziness. InSpain
they marry for lOye-making. In Tur
key they marry for occupation. In
China they marry for tradition. In
| Japan they marry for virtue. In New
York they marry for style. In Boston
| they marry for exclusiveness. In Chi
cago they marry for community of
goods, and in San Francisco they mar
ry for pure fun. In San Jose they
| marry for a change.
However, to return to economy.
There is a young housewife i'll San
| Francisco who IS Just now an en-
| thusiastic economist. She is not a
| political economist; she may be better
| described as a pielitical economist.
| She doesn't 90 much, however, on her
| own experience. She has a husband
and she sometimes cooks for HIM
| She Is at that stage when the eager
/ beginner watches the dough very care
! fully baking, and pulls it out OF the
| oven surprised into delight il it looks
| anything like a loaf. ! don't know
why, but those young hOusekeepers
| always have an insane desire to make
! pie. After all, there's poetry in pie.
! Pie is what Matthew Arnold would
call sweetness and light-that is,
/ theoretically. Darkness and weight
/ would describe most OF them accurate
/ ly. | only knew one woman in the
world who ever made q pie and did
not tell everybody it was her own
make She is too modest to let it be
known, she's dead Awoman will cook
a Joint, frizzle chop, make a clear
I soup, or dress a salad, and never say
a word about it. But if she makes a
] !. -
/ talking, a memade pie disarms the
criticism it deserves. The mistress OF
the house announces that you must
taste this because she made it herself.
That is.to say, if you don't ike it and
it does not agree with you, it's the
fault OF the pie. II it's ood, it's the
credit OF the bakeresa Well, never
mind. most OF us are III luck to get pie
/ anyway.
This young housewife went down
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