Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-08-10
WHAT IS ECONOMY?
ADVICE A NINETEENTH CENTURY
WRITER GIVES TO LONDONERs.

What an American Journalist Says b9
Way of Contradiction-Econom That
Does Not Economize-Too Much Walk
ing After Work-Two Noted Cases.
A writer in The Nineteenth Century, tell
ing how London family may live on e700s
year, makes, among others, the following
suggestion:
1--WE must not forget that two shillings q
day in cabs, and this is very small allowance,
against twopence day in omnibuses, makes
the difference of e33 9s I'd. at the end of the
year. Again, if travelling is done by day on
the metropolitan and district railways, con-
slider the saving that putting our pride into
our pockets and taking out third, instead
Of a first class, fare, effects by the end of the
year. Say it is daily journey from Mott
ing Hill Gate to the Mansion House and
back. Here we have saving of go S.. /; so
that, presuming that wife and husband be-
tween them do the aforesaid amount of omni-
bus and third class traveling-by no means
an unusual neutrality-suspicious. the same
amount of cab and first class travelling,
saving is accomplished on local travelling
alone of e49 14s. Cd"
A DIsAGREEABLE RIDE.
every week day of the year to and from our
place of business in third class car, exposed
to contact with all sorts of passengers in all
stages of uncleanliness and possibly sobrietyi
1t is worth something as regards ones per-
sonal comfort and the saving of ones
strength to travel in clean, airy vehicles, and
out of squeeze and jam, and often an mn
clean jam, at that Many man and woman
loses a vast amount Of strength in half
hours disagreeable, stuffy ride, and this
strength, if wisely expended, represents dol
lars and cents, and the possibilities for its
wise expenditure are much lessened when
you have sat twenty minutes with recently
arrived immigrant fresh or otherwise, from
the storage as your vis-a-vis
There is great deal Of SO called economy,
which to save five cents expends fifty cents
in time and labor, as people may sometimes
do in New York who walk on hot day half
mile to save five cent fare. This is really
extravaganza. The amount Saved" by our
London economist man and wife per year in
riding third class is about $40. Are they
sure they 'saved" ita How much expense
may come indirectly of disagreeable ridei
How much of weakness or WEAKNESS to make
ones head less clear for businessa And in
business the clear head and quick brain rep
resents pounds, shillings and pence. The
man who rides in his cab or carriage to his
Office, not crowded, not jostled, and breath
ing comparatively pure air, is resting while
on his way to business, and that rest means
the preservation of force to work with in
business. The man who rides to business in
the crowded car or 'bus" is not always
resting. He is enduring the situation, and
in that endurance he is expanding certain
- 81 h. L., L 10
business, and the same force expended in SO
saving $40 might, otherwise directed, make
$4,000.
WALKING AFTER WORK.
The Nineteenth Century economical adj
: yiser further says, ''The amount thus spent
NAV also n be largely diminished by encourag-
ing habit of wa1king-ss practice which all
dwellers in London, if strong enough, should
adopt for reasons of hygiene. This mode o.
locomotion, of necessity being slower, may
require corresponding read justment Eof the
breakfast hour, where the man has any regu-
lar business to attend to; but against this
small inconvenience a smaller doctors bill
is surely good set off, besides other evident
moral advantages"
Now, when man has been in his office all
day. especially if his brain has been taxed to
any extent, he is in no proper condition for a
long walk. He may walk far enough to
'stretch his legs" and give his muscles bit
of play, but so soon as he feels the least bit of
fatigue he had better ride. Why's Because
as much force has been expended in working
the intellect all day as would have been in
working the muscles. Such force has only
been used in a different channel 1t has
gone. It cannot that day be Immediately
replaced and any man who, after hours Of
mental labor, takes violent or prolonged
physical exercise. is using up his reserve force
and is propelling his body and muscle more
by the strength of his will than by the
strength of his muscle
So far from making ''small doctors bill"
this very overstrain, caused through piling on
physical effort after periods of prolonged mem
tai labor, has caused the large doctors bill,
and that to little purpose, for to such an extent
does this delusion of the good resulting from
physical exercise take hold of men that they
persist In it while growing weaker and more
ailing, attributing their condition to any
thing and everything else but the overtaxing
Of their strength. The walks of six or eight
miles taken by Dickens after hours spent In
writing fastened his death. and Roscoe Conk-
ling might have been alive today had he re-
manned down town all night, making himself
rs comfortable as he could in his Office, in
stead of persisting, as he did, with his giant
will, in forcing and straining his body after
day Of mental labor, in that three miles Of
struggle on foot along Broadway to his hotel
during that March blizzard.-New York
Star.
10