St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-01-25

Distateful to Most People.
A young girl who was trying brayeIy to
win her daily, bread in the face of draw
backs and digeouragernents, has posted
ina conspicuous spot in her eye this
legend: A~f ae @
What virtue do l admire mosts
Economy -
What virtue do 1 need most to cultivate?
Economy. q Srts .ei Sac5
What virtue do hate most? e--z-.a5f 80
Economy. l74 49,. fs.s7.f
Such text certainly Kept before her
eyes and mind her duty. if we accept
the schoolboy's definition: '.Duty is
what we don't like to do.
, I Why is economy so Objectionable, so
thoroughly distasteful to most people?
Frugality is not meanness. Discreetly
practiced, it may increase the comforts
of life, for what says, the adage? Econ
omy is wealth, :" yand wealth can
procure luXuries, What can be
the cause but human nat
ure's objection to personal incon-
venience? Economy becomes easy, nay
pleasant. when one economies on some
article not important to comfort. Pater-
familias meditates in his office: Il must
economic. won't say anything about
it at home; it would worry Mary. I'll
save on CIGARS" At the end of a
week, if not before, Paterfamilias an
nOuneeS at home that it is absolutely
necessary to retrench; that they must
do without servant. Mary acquiesces,
and Pater finds that economy is not SO
hard after all. Really, he hardly no.
tees it. Materfamilias opinion is with
held. - M .ase
Many people sympathiZe with Harold
Skimpole, in ''Bleak House," and think
if they refrain from making a purchase
sabout which they care little, they have
economical sufficiently, are so much in
pocket, and may spend that amount on
) some luxury.
Economy is hated when it interferes
with personal convenience; is admired
because human nature wonders at and
respects what it finds difficult of per-
Torrance. That it is and ought to be
practiced in one way or another by
every one should help to make it pop
ular.
Hardly a Sunday paper but gives
suggestions in economy, from frugal
methods of cooking to the inexpensive
preparation of a trosseau. But there
are economies that do not touch the
pocketbook that are equally as neceS-
amount of work person may do.
same importance, and economy of nerve
force may keep at bay that foe of
American people, nervous prostration.
One form of saving is suggested in
the Book of Proverbs. HE that hath
knowledge spareth his words" gives
good recipe for obtaining an appearance
of wisdom.
In ali these kinds people have their
pet economies. One saves horseear fares
by walking under all practicable cir
cumstances. Another cherishes stray
pins, and feels wicked if she does not
buy cheap writing paper. A third stints
himself in trif1es, whose loss is to him
real inconvenience and serious piece
of self-denial. and spends dollars in
stead of cents on some luxury. A lady.
by no means frugal In other respects,
has fancy that was, perhaps, con-
tracted during the childhood Of her
/ large family of boys. to preserve stock
ings in an approach to their
early form. They must be darned
and redarned. patched and re-
/ patched, until the original material is
in a painful minority, and when her
family at last rebel, an extra layer of
patch is applied and they are given to
any tramps who may apply.
Some people economiZe their church
going and giving; others are sparing of
good temper; others still are so thrifty
in their use of common sense that it
might be thought that they had none.
Such economies do not lead to wealth or
to profit of any kind.
To sum up, economy of money, time
and health is wise. Economy of COM
mon sense and the virtues is worse than
waste, for by it ''shalI thy poverty come
as one that traveleth, and thy want as
[ an armed man.