St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-05
I saved any money. My wife and l
are delighted with it, and / think / see
re SAVING 81 900 NEXT yrAp


TO SAVING 81, 900 NEXT YEAR.
II have determined to buy a house
and lot with dimes, and to become q
wholesome example to my boy, if |
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-saying. If you knew what a
walker had become through my I'M
willingness to part with dime, you
would open your eyes in wonder. Often
and often l have walked home from
Fourth street because of having no other
money than dimes. have saved nearly
all my church money. l never buy q
fashion paper, and as for candy, Iiget it
by the box or not at all. | have saved
at the market, in shops and at the
stores. | never spend dime, and have
gone without many, many things and
taken positive pleasure in the 'sacri-
fice"
"Several of the boys started in with
me-" said young gentleman who fell
in talking with the reporter about the
dime habit, land l don't suppose any
of us intended to keep the thing up, OF
to do anything more than try it for a
day or twO,j just for the fun of the thing,
The practice of self-denial is mighty
enjoyable thing, though, if you can see
yourself prospecting at so much 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 profited by it.
''When | adopted the practice had
four silver dollars in my pocket. half
dollar, quarter, dime and nickel.
The dime | took out of my trousers
pocket and put into my vest pocket.
The nickel paid for street car fare, the
quarter handed to newSbOy OH the
car for paper. The boy returned me
two dimes. These went into the vest
pocket. The half-dollar handed at
noon to the cashier at the restaurant
where l took a thirty-cent lunch, and 1
received two dimes in change. Fifty
cents put away. / should have bought
a cigar ordinarily, but was fifty cents
behind, and l felt had to save to make
my money hold out for necessaries. In
to the conductor in the car going home,
and may be hung if he didn't return
me eight dimes and three nickels in
change.
IL would not have believed the thing
possible if it had not happened as it did,
and as it was it fairly paralyZed me. /
put the eighty cents away with the fifty,
and instead of going down town that
evening, as intended, stayed at home
and talked with the old lady. 1 had
better luck next day, for spent one of
the nickels for car fare in the morning,
took a ten-cent lunch with the other two,
and walked home in the evening. That
evening l again stayed in the house.
Well, by good management / made that
money last me as long as it would have
done if l had not acquired the dime
habit, and found myself 1920 ahead on
the five dollars l started out with. The
proportion i'll other allowances has not
been SO great, but it has still been so
large that l found myself away ahead
on the month.
when we all came to reckon up, we
discovered that we had saved enough
money
TO PAY ALL THE SMALL DEBTS
we had out. l have kept the practice
up, although the others, 1 believe, have
abandoned it. I find myself not only
better off as result of it, but in habits
as we'll, and in the estimation of the old
folks, who have taken renewed inter-
est in me since l began saving my
money" .
Many experiences similar to those re1
lated above were told, but none ex1
ceeded in interest the following, which
was given by a young lady as haDpenS
ing to two young people she knew;
They were a young couple who were.
very much in love: -, e
Her father was very much opposed,
to the ideao their marrying" said the
reporters fair informant, s'declaring.
that she was too young, and that he
was nothing but a clerk, who might
never be anything better. One night