The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-01-31
THE DIME CRAZE.

and has been for two years past, and
l am really ashamed to say that
never until ! adopted this dime
saving method have ! saved any
money. My wife and l are delighted
with it, and l think / see my way to
saving $1,000 next year. l have
determined to buy house and lot
with dimes, and to become whole
some example to my boy, if 1 should
live until he becomes young man,
and am confident that / shall never
cease adjuring him to save his
dimes"
"Now," said the gentleman's
wife, "you need not think that he is
the only member of the firm that
does any dime-saving. If you knew
what walker l had become through
my unwillingness to part with a
dime, you would open your eyes in
wonder. Often and often | have
walked home from Fourth street be-
cause of having no other money
than dimes. l have saved nearly
all my church money. l never buy
fashion paper, and as for candy /
get it by the box or not at all. l
have saved at the market, in shops
and at the stores. | never spend n
dime, and have gone without many
things and taken positive pleasure
in the sacrifice
''Several of the boys started in
with me-" said young gentleman
who fell to talking with the reporter
about the dime habit, and l don't
suppose any of us intended to keep
the thing up, or to do anything more
than try it on for a day or two, just
for the fun of the thing. The prac-
tice of self-denial is mighty enjoy
able thing, though, if you can see
yourself prospering at so much q
denial. never cared much for
money, but this dime business has
made a regular miser out of me. But
l was going to tell you about how l
profted by it.
"When l adopted the practice l
had four silver dollars in my pocket,
half-dollar, a quarter, dime and
nickel. The dime l took out of
my trousers pocket and put into a
vest pocket. The nickel l paid for
street car fare, the quarter l handed
to newsboy on the car for paper.
The boy returned me two dimes,
which went into my vest pocket. The
half dollar | handed at noonto the
cashier at the restaurant where /
took a thirty-cent lunch, and 1 re-
ceived two dimes In change. Fifty
cents put away. 1 should have
bought cigar ordinarily, but I was
fifty cents behind, and felt had to
save to make my money hold out for
necessaries. In the evening
handed one of the dollars to the
conductor in the car going home,
and may be hung if he didn't re-
turn me eight dimes and three
nickels in change.
/ would not have believe the thing
possible if it had not happened as il
did, and as it was it nearly paralyze6
me. | put the 80 cents away with
the so, and instead of going dowr
town that evening as l intended,
stayed at home and talked with the
old lady. l had better luck nex1
day, for l spent one of the nickle'
for car fare in the morning, took /;
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and walked home that evening
That evening ] again stayed in th'
house. Well, by good management
l made that money last me as lons
as it would have done if l had no
acquired the dime habit, and fount
myself 1920 ahead on the S. O
nearly SIS started with. The pro
portion in other allowances has no
been so great, but it has still beel
so large that l found myself ava,
ahead on the month.
"When we all came to reckon up
we discovered that we had save,
enough money to pay all the smal
debts we had out. 1 have kept TIL
practice up, although the others,
believe, have abandoned it. / fin,
myself not only better off in purs
as q result of it, but in habits a
we'll, and in the estimation of th
old folks, who have taken renewe'
interest in me since l began savin
my money.
Many experiences similar to thos
related above were told, but non
exceeded in interest the following
which was given by young lady a
happening to two young people sh
knew. They were young coupl
who were very much in love:
''Her father was very much op
posed to the idea of their marry
ing" said the reporters fair in
formant, "declaring that she wa
too young, and that he was nothin
but clerk, who might never be any
thing better. One night the gentle
man took the lady to the Exposition
After the turning down of the light
they boarded cable car. She live
on Vandevcnter avenue. When th
conductor came around to the youn:
man the latter felt in his pockets
blushed crimson, and then, turnin
to the lady, asked her if she ha
any change in her purse. She re
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