Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-05-04
A CHICAGO TRADDLES.
How He is Economizing and is Happy
in His Work.
From the Chicago Mail.

From the Chicago Mail
''Tney say Dickens characters are greatly
exaggerated" said friend the other day, land
that you never find in real life a
Nicawber, a Pecksniff, or a Traddles
l know better. I've found Traddles-
only he's more of a Traddles than ever
Traddies was himself He married his dearest
girl last summer, and ever since that time has
been the happiest man I've seen or ever hope TO
see. But the economical streak i. gave him il
the most remarkable thing ever ran across. lie
recognized that he had been wasting time and
money, and he started in at once To change all
that. met him couple of months later in a
drug store with his pretty little wife. and asked
him to have one of my favOrite cigars.
No. he said, I've quit smoking. Omit
right after / got married. The other
evening l met him again. I hann't seen
him since last fall, and was surprise d
TO find him wearing beard. which didn't i'll
the least become him. Not only that. but his
hair was clipped close to his head. remem-
bered how handsome he used to be with only a
mustache, and his hair cut pompadour. and
asked him if he in disguise.
HE laughed deliEhtedly. The bows in the
Office. he said. have lots of fun with me about
my whiskers and my short hair but l have
more fun out of that than they do. 1 know
why I'm doing this. you see and they don't
Then, with his face all aglow, he said: You
see, I'm married man now, and after awile I'll
he father. A shave costs Is cents. / figure
that every time ] let that go | have saved Is
cents for the baby. But hair-cuts l must have
SO / get just much for the money as | can-I
have il clipped as close as the barber can clip
ii. So il lasts longer. See?
HE went on then to tell me some other
things. Il have half an hours time for din
ner. he said. 'but | don't take it, / eat a bite
as work. and in the course of a month those
half hours amount TO thirteen full hours, This
IL day and half extra. 1t all counts
See those shoes? You know 1 always
used TO have my shoes made to order at
Sl5 pair? Well, these cost me So. and have
worn them all winter. | will oil them up put
them away. and wear them next winter, too 1
haven't bought any clothes since married but
L have my eye on a suit i have it all picked
out. and am going to buy it q year from he 1t
fall. 1t will cost STA
This last statement was given point by the
fact that at that time he had on light overcoat
for which few years ago he had paid go, and a
suit. also purchased some time back, which had
cost him SO He told me that he hadn't been
away from home an evening since he had mar
rled. except one when his wife was absent
And he Is happier. it seems with each sue
ceeding day, and his work and his economy
for the sake of his sweet young wife and
the little one that Is to be are not the
least of his many pleasures. He is a
character Dickens would have been delighted
70 ind, and If the great novelist had painted
HIM am sure that in all the range of his great
and good people there would not have been one
with bigger heart and more loyable, generous
nature"