Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-07-13
WHAT IS ECONOMY
ADVICE A NINETEENTH CENTURY WRITER GIVES TO LONDONERa


 Way of Coneradictios- Economy That
 Does No. Economixe-Too siuch Walk
 ing ACtcr worh-Two Noted Casca
 writer in The Nineteenth Century, tell ing how London family may live on eT00 a year. makes. among others the following suggestion;
 We must net forget that two sAillfngs day in cabs, and this Is 0 very small allowance, against twopence day in ornnibuses, makes the difference of e:iS N> 2d ut tue end of the year Again, if travelling is done by day on the metropolitan and district railways, con- sider the saving that putting our pride into our pockets and taking out third, instead of first class, fare. effects by the end of the year. Say 1t Is daily journey from Nott- ing Hill Cat. to the Mansion House and back Here we have saving of fa 5a 30 that, presuming that a wife and husband be tween them do the aforesaid amount of onln1 bus and third class travcltna-by no means an unusual qunntity-ag the same amount of cab and first class travelling. a saving is accomplished on local travelling alone of G40 i4s 2d"
 DIsAGREHABLR RIDE
 And what is really gained by thus riding every week day of the year to and from our
  to contact with all sorts of passengers in all stages of unc!eanliness and possibly sobrietya 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 a squeeze and a jam. and often an m clean jam, ct that Many a man and woman loses vast amount of strength in a 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 a recently arrived immigrant, fresh or otherwise, from the steerage as your vis-a-vis
 There is a 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 extravagance The amount "saved" by our London economist man and wife per year in riding third class Is about s4o. Are they sure they ''saved" iti How much expense may come indirectly of disagreeahle ridei How much of weakness or weariness to make one's head less clear for businessi 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 O@cs, 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 fin 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 be Is expendtng a certain portion of the very element he needs In his business, and the scme force expended in SC saving $l0 might. otherwise directed, make 1000
 WALKING AFTER WORK.
 The Nineteenth Century economical ad. wiser further says, ''Tbe amount thus spent may also be largely diminished by encourag. ing habit of walking-a practice which all dwellers in London, if strong enough. should adopt for reasons of hygiene. This mode ot iocomotion, of necessity being slower, may require corresponding read iustr,ent sof the breakfast hour, where thu man has any regu lar business to attend to, but against this small inconvenience smaller doctors bill Is surely good set off. besides other evident moral advantages"
 Now, when a man has been in his office al day, especially If his brain has been taxed te | any extent. be is in no proper condition for $ long walk. He may walk far enough st stretch his legs" and give his muscles bi' of play, but so soon as he feels the least bit oi I6ClRuo ne naQ OeCCer T11a WnYg beCAuS( as much force has been expended in working theRntellect all day as would have been il | working the muscles Such force has only been used in a different channel It ha. gone. It cannot that day be immediately replaced, and any man who, after hours o mental labor, takes violent or prolonget physical exercise. Is using up his reserve forct and is propelling his body and muscle mors by the strength of his will than by thu strength of his muscla
 So far from making ''small doctors bill, this very overstrain, caused through piling oi physical effort after periods of prolonged men tal labor. has caused the large doctors bill and that to little purpose, for tosuch an exten does this delusion of the good resulting from physical exercise take hold of men that they persist in 1t while growing weaker and nor ainng, attributfng their condition to any thing and everything else but the overtaxinl of their strength The walks of six or eigh miles taken by Dickens after hours spent fl writing hastened his death. and Roscoe Conk ling might have been alive today had he re mained down town all night, making himsel as comfortable as he could in his office, in stead of persisting. as he did, with his gian will. in forcing and straining his body afte day of mental labor, in that three miles c struggle on foot along Broadway to his hote during that March blizzard.--New Yar! | Star.