Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-07-08

aoiAy Ahnt oHsF-bOo v VI
Us at Times and Makes Us Lots of Need
less Trouble.
Zenas Dane IN DttoI Free Press.
What sort Of insane folly is it that pos
sesses some of rs at times, and makes us
save all our odds and ends Of every descrip-
ton under the delusion that they will
come handy" some time? They never do
"ccne handy" but we cling to them with
great tenscity instead of having the good
sense to best0w them on the ash man as
his rightful prerogatives.
My wife and l have we'll developed eco.
nomical tendencies, and we pride ourselves
on never wasting a thing that may "be
useful" or come handy" at any time 10
the dim future.
/ have read Of men Of wealth who traced
the beginning Of their riches back to the
time when they carefully saved pieces of
Irvine, never cutting it from q bundle, but
carefully untying it and lsyisg it away for
future use, until they must have had q
barrel or two Of old Irvine lying around
some place. Once l read of q millionaire
who set his fellow.men IN example of
thrift By getting out Of his carriage and
picking up a rusty nail he saw By the
roadside, and l emulated his example until
1 had about 40 pounds of old, rusty, bent
and broken nails lying around; and about
once in six months | used a pound or two
of them in trying to find one that / could
drive into a board without bending or
breaking. At last / sold the lot for old
iron and got 10 cents for them. Then /
began to reform. The other day / began
reforming my wife.
| was cleaning out the accumulation Of
years in a closet in the basement and pill
ing most of it's contents up for the ash man
when my wife came down stairs.
There are some things in that closet I
want saved" she said, they'll come
handy some time" Bat l resolved to be
firm.
"You don't want this? ?" l ssid, holding
up an old tea kettle without any spout,
aud with six big holes in the bottom of it.
swell, it might come handy for some
thing some day."
1 tossed it into the ash barrel and held
up a pair Of very old boots, discarded
four years ago, and now green with mold.
"No use in saving these, is there?" l
asked.
well, I don't know. A little piece of
leather often comes handy In a house for a
hinge or something"
/ called to mind a pair of leather hinges
l once made, and the boots followed the
tea kettle.
"what do you want this rusty old hoop.
skirt foi?"
"Oh, a piece of hoopskirt wire often
comes in useful in o house"
ut haSn't been asked for in this house
since before the war;" l said. "Here's an
old hat of mine that's been lying around
nine years, Better throw it away, hadn't
II?"
well, perhaps so. I've often thought
of giving il to some poor man, but ! for
got il every time a tramp comes around. l
gave il to one tramp, and he went of and
left it on Che front gate post"
"ShOwed his good sense" / said. "Do
you want all these broken dishes?'
Eyes. I'll havs them all manded some
day. I've Intended having it done for five
years" When her back WAS turned they
went into the ash barrel.
"No use in saving these old bottles,
eb?n
well, a bottles a handy thing to have
around. Better save them"
MY dear" l said, there are at least rs
bottles, and TO my certain knowledge we
don't use one a year, and think we can
trust our great-great-great grandchildren
to get their W bottles; 30 here they
go"
Ia the same daring, reckless way, /
threw away three old bustles, old bonnets,
breeches, lamps, skilles, hair combipgs,
shoes, sawdust, tin pans, old papers, pop
corn, wormy w~alnuts, soap grease, broken
lamps, spoutless teapots, bottomless coffee
pots, cracked kettles, and 10. 900 other
thing, that had for years and years waited
their turn to come handy "but which never
would or could ''come handy" in this
world or 10 the world to come.