The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-04-21
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FOR YOUNG MEN.
Some Plain Truths Worthy Their CoBsid-
eraffou.

Some Plain Truths Worthy Their consid-
GRAFTON.
Why is-it that so many young people
are ashamed to have 1t thought that
they have no money? or why is it that
they are ashamed of economy in the
management Of slender means, and Of
frugality in living?
There is no disgrace in being an
acorn before being an oak, Young
people frequently wish that thew were
grown men; but they are not ashamed
Of being young! No one is ashamed to
have it discovered, that his strength,
knowledge and skill are proportioned
to his years. But. these same persons
will blush, and suffer shame, at being
supposed not to have money, under
circumstances inl which all the sensible
world knows that they ought to have
none.
A young man has been sent to
college by the rigorous economy OF his
father and mother, and it is only by
the very hardest iadnstry and closest
economy that they can sestain him
there. Every single dime is important
And yet this student is ashamed not to
bear his part in sociat expenses which
go beyond his means He i utterly
unable to say: Il cannot afford it!' 1t
is the harder to say it, because in a
community of several hundred young
men two-thirds of whom are poor, and
the children of poor men, there is n
lurking shame OF poverty which radi-
ates into public sentiment and reflects
kind of disrepute upon those who
boldly say: 81 must deny myself be-
yond the barest necessities of life of
whatever costs money" This is an I'M
fortunate characteristic of poor young
men; poverty causes enough trouble
without the addition of foolish senti-s
ments.
Who expects the general run of
young men to have money to spare?
Does not the whole world know that
yet they have earned nothing, and that
they inherit-no fortune--that they re-
ceive but small stipen1-and that, II
they would be honest, they must prac-
tice rigorous economy? Why then do
they engage in pleasures which drain
their p,clxets dry, and lay them under
temptations to dishonesty, for fear peo-
PIE will think they have no money?
OF course. folks will think so, And
they will think so just as much if you
are inveigled into unwlse expenditures
which you cannot afford. poor
young man ought to be poor until he
has broken the spell of poverty by in
dnstrious enterprise; ard he should
rather glory in it than be ashamed
of its
tits necessary that you should be
frugal; it is necessary that you should
be honest, but it is not necessary to
attemp t to walk in circles of society
that will swallow up the pitiful pennies
Of poverty like quicksand, and in
volve you intempta ions to dishonesty.
1t is good reason for not joining q
club. an excursion, riding party or
an extravagant ball, that you cannot
honestly raise the money" Who
ought to hold up his head highest the
young man who quietly SAYS: Il can
not yet indulge in such expenses" or
he who is ashamed of his poverty, but
is not ashamed to steal the money on
which he makes false appearance?
+ The essential spirit of thrift and
economy. the most rigid self-denial, is
a thousand times nobser than that free
handed squandering of money which
gives spurious reputation for gener-
osity to people who are on the road to
bankruptcy, and who have long spent
money not their own with special
pracefulpess!-N. Y. Ledger