The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-07-02
WHAT IS EC0N0MYa
ADVICE A NINETEENTH CENTURY
WRITER GIVES TO LONDONeRs.


What al American Journalist Says by
/ Way OF Cont raxiiction- Economy That
Does Not Economi1s Too Much Walk
ing Aftos work--Two Noted Cases.
A writer In The Nineteenth Century, tell
ing how London family may live on f7OO a
year makes. among Others. the following
suggestion;
I'VE must not forget that two shillings a
day In cabs, and this is a very small allowance,
against twopence a day In omnibuses, MAKES
the difference Of GSS 9s 2i. at the end OF the
wear Again, n travelling is done By day on
the metropolitan and district railways. con
slider the 81 ving TINT putting our pride into
our pockets and taking out a third, instead
OF frs, class, fare, effects bv the end of the
wear Say il Is daily journey from Mott
ing Hill Gate to the Mansion House and
hack Here we have saving OF 80 S., 30
that, presenting that wiss and husband be
tween them do the aforesaid amount Of omnI
bus and third class travehns-by no means
an unusual quantity against the same
amount of cab and first class travelling. a
saving Is accomplished on local travelling
alone OF k4v Us ID
A DISAGREEABLE Ride.
And what is really gained 10y thus riding
every week day Of the year TO and from our
place of business in a third class car, exposed
to contact with all sorts OF passengers IN all
stages of uncieaniiness and possibly sobrietyf
IL Is worth something rs regards ones per
sonal comfort and the saving OF ones
strength to travel in clean. airy vehicles. and
out OF a squeeze and jam. and often an I'M
clean jam. at that Many man aud woman
loses q vast amount OF strength in half
hours disagreeatie. stuffy ride, and this
strength. II wisely expended, represents dol
lars and cents. and the possibilities Tor It's
wise expenditure are much iesSened when
YOU have cat twenty minutes With recently
arrived immigrant. fresh or otherwise, from
the steerage as your vis-a-vis
There is great deal Of 50 called economy,
which 10 save Eve cents expends fifty cents
in time and labor. as people may sometimes
do In New York who walk on hot day half
a mile 10 save a 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 $40 Are they
sure they saved" itf How much expense
ruay come indirectly OF diSaGreeable rider
How much Of weakness " WEAKNESS TO make
ones heod less clear for busneSss And In
business the clear head ana quics brain rep
~esents pounds, shillincs and pence. The
man who rides in bis cab or carriage to his
Office. 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 in,
business The man who rides TO business fn
Me crowded car or bus" is not always
resting He is enduring the situation. and
i'm that endurance he is expending certain
portion OF the very element he needs In his
business. and the s.me force expended In so
saving $40 might. otherwise directed, make
$4,000
WALKING AFTER WORK
The Nineteenth Century economical ad-
wiser further says, THE amount thus spent
may also be largely diminished by encourag
ing habit OF Walking practice which oil
jewellers in London. II strong enough, should
adopt for reasons of hygiene. This mode OF
iocomotion, of necessity being slower, may
require corresponding REIMBURSEMENT sof the
breakfast hour, where the man has any regu-
lar business 70 attend to. but against this
small inconvenience "a smaller doctors bill
Is surely q good set Off. besides other evident
moral advantages
Now, when man has been in his Office all
day, especially If his brain has been taxed TO
any extent, he is in no proper condition for
long walk He may walk far enough to
stretch his legs ani give his muscles bit
OF play, but so soon as he feels the least bit OF
fatigue be had better ride. Whyf Because
as much force has been expended in working
the intellect all day "a would have been In
working the muscles. Such force has only
teen used in different channel 1t has
gone Ii cannot that day be Immediately
replaced, AL any man @ho, after hours OF
mental labor, takes violent or prolonged
physical exercise. is using phis reserve force
and is propelling his body and muscle more
by the strength Of bis will than by the
strength OF his muscle
so fsr from making ''sfnail doctors bill,
this very overstrain. caused through piling on
physical effort after periods OF prolonged men
tai labor. has caused the large doctors bill,
and that TO little purpose, for to such an extent
does this deluslOn of the good resulting from
physical exercise take hold OF men that they
persist In 1t while growing weaker and more
ailing, attributing their condition TO any
thing and everything else but the overtaxing
Of their strength. The walks of six or eight
.niiss taken by Dickens after hours spent in
writing fastened his death. and Roscoe Conk
ling might have been alive today had be re-
NAMED down town all nigbbs making himself
M comfortable as be could in his Office, in
stead Of persisting, as he did, with his giant
will, in forcing and straining his body after
a day OF mental labor, in that three miles of
struggle on foot eioug broadway to bis hotel
during that March blizzard New YORK
Star.
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