The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-08-02
AN EXPOSED DELvsIoN.
Tho Wise Opinion OF Man Who Doesn't
Believe In Saving Rubbish.


Tho Wise Opinion OF Man Who Doesn't
Believe In Saving Rubbish.
What sort OF insane folly is 1t that
possesses some OF us at times, and
makes us save all our odds and ends
OF every description under the delu-
sion that they will ''come handy" some
timer They never do come handy"
but we cling to them with great
tenacity instead OF having the good
sense TO bestow them on the ash man
as his rightful prerogatives.
My wife and have well developed
economical tendencies, and we pride
ourselves on never wasting thing
that may ''be useful" or .'come handy
any time in the future.
have read OF men OF wealth who
traced the beginning OF their riches
back to the time when they carefully
saved pieces of Irvine, never cutting II
from bundle, but carefully untying
it and laying it away for future use,
until they must have had a
barrel or two OF old Irvine lying
around some place. Once / read
OF millionaire who set his fellow
men an example OF thrift by getting
out Of his carriage and picking up
rusty nail he saw by the roadside, and
/ emulated his example until | had
about forty pounds OF old, rusty, bent
and broken nails lying around; and
about once in six months l used a
pound or two OF them in trying to find
one that / could drive into board.
without bending or breaking AT last
sold the lot for old iron and got ten
cents for them Then began to re-
form and the other day began re-
forming my wife.
was cleaning out the accumulation
OF years in closet in the basement
and piling most of its contents up for
the ash man when my wife came doyn
stairs.
There are some things In that closet
want saved she said, they'll come
handy some time But resolved to
be firm.
"You don't want that2" said hold
ing up an old tea kettle without any
spout and with six big holes in the bot
tom of it.
well, itmight come handy for some
thing some day"
i tossed it into the ash barrel and
held up pair OF very old boots dis
carded four years ago, and now green
with mold.
mo use in saving these, is there?" !
asked.
well, l don't know. A little piece
OF leather often comes handy in house
for hinge or something"
called to mind pair OF leather
hinges once made and the boots fol-
lowed the teakettle.
What do you want this rusty old
hoopskirt forPn
"Oh, piece of hoopslsirt wirc often
comes in useful in a house."
ut hasn't been asked for In this
house since before the war; said.
Here's an old hat of mine that's been
lying around nine years. Better throw
it away, hadn't I?n
well, perhaps so. Eve often thought
of giving it to come poor man, but |
forget it every time a tramp comes
around. gave it to one tramp and he
went off and left it ON the front gate
post"
Showed his good sense" / said.
"Do you want all these old broken
dishes?"
Eyes. I'll have them all mended
some day. I've intended having il
done for five years" When her back
was turned they went into the ash-bar-
rel
mo use in saving these old bottles,
eh?n
well, bottles handy thing to
have around. Better save them"
my dear | said, there are at
least seventy-fve old bottles and to my
certain knowledge we don't use one a
year, and / think we can trust our
great-great-great-great grandchildren
to get their own bottles; so here they
60"
In the Same daring, reckless way |
threw away three old bustles, old bon
nets, breeches, lamps, skillets, hair
combings, shoes, saw-dust, tin pans
old papers, popcorn, wormy walnuts,
soap-grease, broken lamps, spoutless
tea-pots, bottomless coffee-pots, cracked
kettles and ten thousand other things
that had for years and years waited
their turn to come handy" but which
never would or could come handy" in
this world or in the world to come
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