The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-11-10
TRUE ECONOMY.
Foolish Saving Which Ia Every Bit
Had ~ Foolish Spending,

Foolish Saving Which Ia Every Bit ~
Had ~ 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-vork Of the houss-mother.
whom the children are young. to save
the wage Of servant, and in old age
be able to live only at "poor, dying
rate" with always 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 heslth fail, to save the
price OF few pairs of French kid boots
going to seamstress, is neither econ
omy, frugality nor common sense. The
starving the intellect by putting the
price Of q few books where it will
''draw interest" Is poor economy of
the means given for to-day's use. True
economy is wise spending as well as
a wise saving Economy is q 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
will not want. The other will invite
dyspepsia at fifteen-cent lunch cOun-
ters, look like 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 20 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 il 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 has taken from our reach.
Real poverty is to 60 through life
starved for the good things Of this
world. But let us not mistake what
the good" is. We xre not thinking
of riches, or fame, or beauty. or dress,
when We use the word good" We
were thinking of the books almos,
within ones reach, and for which the
mind hungers with keener sensation
that experienced from physical hun.
ger; Of the hunger for privileges de.
MED because the toiling aud spinning
Of the six days has made the body &C
weary that entire physical rest for the
Sabbath is An absolute necessity
Starved for a comfortable home-a.
simply comfortable as one may devise
-and all through life sit upon hard
chair, look upon bare walls, and wall
upon dingy floors; we know of mer
and women who do this that they may
accumulate more land, more stock
that they may tear down and buil(
larger. Economy is . wise saving
economy IS wise spending. Thu
misery moral proverb: take carr
of the pence and the pounds will tax,
care of themselves" may be true, bu
it is true, also, that there are man,
who in trying to save life only los'
CAyistt0s Uai0n.