Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-21

| lures. II you are not free with you
money your savings will CT course no
amount to 8 great deal; still they vii
come TO Oh interesting sum in time. TIE
plan seems to BEL said, devised for th<
purpose Of making peope who spent
money freely save E part OF their pocke
money. 1t is good thing, too, in th'
way of teaching man trugality ant
thrift | believe that sny one who learns
to save in small things will not be long il
learning to save in large thirgs. Try the
thing awhile and see what comes CT it?'
Itquiries among personal friends serve(
to show the reporter that the dime savicE
plan had become to many OF the IN tas-
cinating habit.
"I took up the scheme last spring,
said O Young married man, "at the solicit
alton OF my wife: We had been figuring
up my expepsee-that is, ms personal ex
penses-and she declared me frightfuIlJ
txtrsvagsnt. | insisted that the eX-
pgrses could not well be curtailed. She
advised the practice ct little self denial
in the matter OF cigars, Shine and al
other little expenses that eat up dcllsl
so quickly. / said it would be lmpossi
Die for NE to forego these little Injuries,
as they had SO grown upon me; and she,
while ssseverating she did not want me
to revoluti1nize things, maintained that
little denial OF these pleasures, moder'
alton OF them, in fact, would improve me
flaar clally and physically.
SIT was about that time that hesrd OF
the dime scheme, and became an advo-
este aud devotee Of il 81 once. Well, you
wouldn't believe how proflted by II. Il
became matter Of the greatest interest
to NE, in the first place, to secure change
that had 10 dimes in il. In the second
plsce, it became interesting ard amusing
to deny myself certain things | otherwise
would buy without suY thought Ct
saving. Everything l denied myself
became really source OF pleas
ure to me, sud I would not only er joy
the saving of the money that would 9th
erwise have been spent, but l enjoyed
telling ny wife about il. Furthermore
fslt the keenest interest in the pile Of
dimes that was constantly growing felt
free 10 spend In some things, because
knew that would get my return in dlmea
The desire to add to my pile, however,
kept me from buying many and many q
thing | should have been as eager before
to secure.
~ know You will refuse to believe me
now, when tell you that have saved in
SIX months nearly 500. 1t is /. solemn
fact, though. My salary is $4,000 year
and has been for two years past, and
an reslly ashamed TO say that never un-
Ill l adopted this dime saving method
have I saved sny money. My wife and
are delighted with it, and l think l see
my way to save 5000 next year. 1 have
determined to buy house and lot with
dimes, and to become wholesome tx
ample TO my boy, il Ishould live until
he becomes young map, and an conf
dent that shall never cease adiuriug him
TO save his dimes"
"Now," s.id the gentleman's wife "you
need not think that he Is the only member
OF the firm that does any dime saving. II
you knew what walker l had become
through my unwillingnes to part with q
dime, you would open your eyes in Won.
der. Often and often have walked home
because of having no other money than
dimes. have saved nearlY all my church
money. l never buy fashion paper, and
as fer candy, get it by the box or not al
ell. have saved st the marKet, In shops
and q. the stores. l never spend dime,