Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-28
SAVING THE DIMES.
EXPERIENCES OF
THOSE WHO HAVE TRIED IT.

A New Craze Which Is Possibly the Be-
ginning of q Financial RevoIution-The
Plan in Detah-A Very Fascinating
Habit.
Two young gentlemen stepped into cigar
store the other day, and one of them bought
and paid for two cigars. The cigars cost ten
cents each, and the man who sold them
handed back, in change for the silver dollar
that had been rendered to him. eighty cents
in ten cent pieces. Thereupon one of the
young men laughed vociferously, and the
other, who had bought the cigars, pocketed
the eight dimes, with an expression approach
ing chagrin, and said: ''Just my luck, by
George However," said he, after lighting
his cigar, ''if there is any more spending to
be done, old fellow, you've got to do it, for
Pm broke"
When the young man left the store the
cigar man turned to reporter who had
witnessed the transaction and said:
"Do you know what that meansi'
"No.n
swell, the young man has simply caught
the dime saving craze"
"And what is the dime saving crazeT
st is something that may not be exactly
new, but is new for all that know to the
contrary. The scheme is never to spend a
dime. 1t was probably devised for the bene-
fit of thrftless people, who are not able to
save their money in the regular way, and for
a plan of saving it is one of the best ever
heard of. Hundreds of young fellows have
lv,if ,t I,a,r ~
My business suffers from the practice to some
extent, but not great deal. In fact, am
something of dime saver myself, and get
new customers by explaining the plan to
them and getting them to adopt it. They
come in to see me about it nearly every day,
and tell me how we'll they are doing
Suppose you give me the plan more in de-
tall
well, you make up your mind to keep
every dime that comes into your possession.
You are never to part with ten cent piece
under any circumstances. Whenever you re-
ceive a dime in change put it away, and
when you get home place it in box OF re-
ceptacle for safe keeping. The more dimes
you get in change the greater your savings
will be- You are to make any sacrifice rather
than to part with one dime II you have
nothing but dimes in your pocket when you
want cigar, go without the cigar. II you
want lunch and have nothing but dimes, go
without lunch Ii you have only a dime in
your pocket and want to ride home on
horse car, brace up and walk. Save your
Dimes
''Well. what will be the result of it"
1T will surprise YOU. If you are a free
spender your savings will assume large pro-
portions. You will be surprised when you
adopt the plan to see the number of dimes in
circulation.
Now, when you come to think of it, dime
is no small sum. If you save all the dimes
you get in change you save nearly one-half
of your smah expenditures II you are no.
free with your money your savings will of
course not amount to great deal; still they
viii come to an interesting sum in time.
The plan seems to be, as / said, devised for
the purpose of making people who spend
money freely save a part of their pocket
money. It good thing, too. in the way
Of teaching a man frugsiity and thrift I
believe that any one who learns to save in
small things will not be long in learning to
save in large things Try the thing awhile
and see what comes Of it."
inquiries among personal friends served to
show the reporter that the dime saving plan
had become to many of them . fascinating
habit
81 took up the scheme last spring. said .
young married man, at the solicitation of
my wife. We bad been figuring up my e1-
penses-that is, my personal e1penses-and
she declared me frightfully extravagans !
insisted that the expenses could not wei. be
curtailsd. She advised the practice of q
little self denial in the matter of cigars,
shines and all other little expenses that eat
up dollar 50 quickly. l said it would be
impossible for me to forego these little luxu-
ries, as they had 50 grown upon me; and
she, while ssseverating she did not want me
to revolutionize things. maintained that
little denial of these pleasures, a moderation
u them in fact, would improve NE finan
cially and physically
1T was about that time that heard OF the
dime scheme, ana became an advocate and
devets< Of il AT once Well. You wouldn't
believe how l. pro6ted by it. i, became a
matser Of the greatest interest to me. in the
first place, 10 secure change that had no
dimes in IL In the SECOND place it became
apd au,nsinS e deax myss,i or.