Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-12-26
PEOPLE WHO BORROW.
They Rarely Return What Is Lent Them and
Are an Annoyance in the World.

They Rarely Return What Is Lent Them and
Are an Annoyance in the World.
TWO THINGS IN THIS WORLD ONE
= should never think Of borrowings razor
or shirt.
When philosopher like Tubbs makes such a
remark as that there must be some reason In it.
| and SO the other fellows at the little drinking
| table near the club window became attentive
while he went on to say:
"Both Of those articles are too intimately
associated with ones person, don't you know.
One man will utterly disorgsnize another's
shaving tools in a single operation and for some
reason borrowed shirt is never returned"
Nor anything else that is borrowed usu-
ally" observed Noodles.
Very true" admitted Tubbs. "Some peo-
pie who borrow do really mean to return what
is lent them, but it is comparatively rarely that
they fulfill the intention. How much of the
money that you have loaned in your life has
ever been paid back? Not rs per cent, will
venture to say. man came to me yesterday
and asked me for 81 for twenty-four hours. He
invested the cash in stimulants, and today he
applied to me for Is cents to sober up with,
Persons who drink to excess are, in my notion,
the most interesting Of borrowers. They
always make light of what they call their i'm
trinity. seem to regard it cheerfuly, as if it
were quite excusable and evidently consider
that they have right to be supplied by others
with the means OF inebriation.
There is no end to the cheek OF borrowers
generally. Sir Walter Scott speaks in his
journal of his experience with undergradu-
ates at Cambridge and Oxford, who. having out
grown their allowances. would, though quite
unknown to him, write and ask him for the
loan Of small sums, from five to fifty pounds.
One stranger, an army officer informed him by
letter that he had dreamed that Sir Walter lent
him $500. to which the author replied
that this was an illustration Of the well -known
fact that dreams always went by contraries.
have understood that the President OF the
United States, members of the cabinet, Con-
gressmen and other persons high in official
position at Washington are constantly re-
quested for loans The case of the dynamiter
in New York the other day, who demanded
81. 200, 600 OF Russell Sage, is merely IN ex-
treme one.
~ have lent money on frequent occasions
simply for the purpose Of getting rid of the
borrower, there being no such sure way of
making him avoid you afterward. have
known great many men who made regular
business of securing small loans from every
fresh acquaintance. How familiar is the good
fellow Of the type have just described, who
goes through the world soliciting trihng con-
tributions from whoever he can get decent
introduction to. never hesitating to sacrifice a
friendship for so cents or 81. You find that
type Of individual at his lowest notch when he
~ VI,
By that time he has abandoned ali serious at
tempts to appear respectable or to conceal his
character as . beat.
''The most unique borrower have met with
lately was employed as q servant In my house
hold for twenty-four hours. On the afternoon
of her arrival she concluded that she was too
| fatigued to clean up the kitchen and 80 retired
to her room, having obtained from her mistress
the loan of Q book Of poems for perusal. The
| next morning she walked mo up by pounding
on my door and informed me that, inasmuch
az her own bag had not arrived, she would be
glad il would lend her my comb and tooth
| brush. On the other hand, l have known
| women to borrow money from their servants.
! once had q colored man who was accustomed
| to borrow my dress suit whenever he attended
q ball only found it out through the acci-
dent Of discovering one night that the gar-
| ments were gone, when was attiring myself
| for party.
1.-The sort Of neighbors who borrow are suf-
| fciently we'll known. They obtain the loan OF
cut glass, silver ware, jewelry and other fnery,
| for the purpose OF making display ON occa-
| sions Lower down in life they send next door
| for cup OF tea, some -four, little sugar, or
| what not ! have known cases where girls who
called themselves ladies actually borrowed
| scarf pins and rings from admirers, never Civ
ing them back. Umbrellas, rubbers and
waterproofs are articles which are rarely re-
turned when borrowed. The only lenders who
have q real advantage over the borrowers are
| the pawnbrokers."