The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-07-06
EDITORS CHAT.
A Few Thoughts Touching Upon Topics
Suggested by the C. c.
sELF-DENIAL AND ECONOMY.

sELF-DENIAL AND ECONOMY.
There is but one road to economy, and that is
self-denial. Without seif-denial nobody can avoid
extravaganza.
All have something 10 wish for and the desire 10
indulge ourselves is powerful in one as in
another. Virtue does not consist in never being
tempted but in successfully resisting temptation.
Those who complain that ihey cannot be as
economical as others. because ther tastes are go
much more refined and elegant, are just simply
more selfindulgent
When one does some extravsgant thing that he
can lily afford, he satisfies his conscience by say
ing, 90 well, can save in something else"
From the woman who gives q costly party away
beyond her means. to the boy and girl who buy
foolish triRes there is always the same excuse
offered. q can save in something else"
Ia truth, however, the saving is never made, and
those who indulge in foolish eKtravagances are
always the last TO reirench. The habit of self-in-
diligence which causes US 10 yield 10 one tempta-
ton, is continually in way TO prevent our
resisting others.
The way TO practice economy is not to buy some
expensive thing and think you will make il up in
something else, but to resist the alurements Of the
tempter at the very beginning. strong character
schools himself resist the allurements of luxury
the weak abandons himself to its wiles.
Extravaganza is a type OF selisbness. and means
that some else must suffer that we may indulge
ourselves. tits long hard severe discipline which
habtuates TO self-denials but if we want to be
broad well rounded. unselfsh characters it is
battle we must fight.
WHAT Is THE NATTER
You say your eyes hurt, and that you think you
will have TO wear glasses. What is the matter?
Now, it is probably one of two things. You
either go TO school in a bady-lighted room, or you
are deliberately running your eyes by abuse that
you can avoid.
Ifyou go to school in one of those dimly-lighted
rooms that are found in many of the larger school
houses of the land you TO be pitied.
Ifyou are holding your book too near your eyes,
or reading with the sunshine falling on the pages
Of your book. porting over just another page "
in the dim twilight or sitting all curled up that
your spine is crowded against your nerves and
your nerves cry TO the brain, and your eyes be-
red and bleary at the very thought of all your
wickedness. why. then. you are to be blamed
Suppose you try rational care of your eyes for
little while aud see what comes of ii. Observe that
rational care does permit of late hours at night
Plenty Of rest and sleep are necessary to good
nerves and. consequently. good eyes.
THE WINNING POWER.
You go and look into your glass and you say,
al cannot understand how So-and-so manages TO
get into the good graces Of everybody Now. when
IL comes to personal appearance am sure the adj
vantage is ali my side. and know am better
dresscd-and-WelI some people are born lucky,
suppose"
Now, think moment. What have you been
trying to do ali this timer Have you been trying
to please others because you found pleasure in kind
acts or because you wanted 10 make good i'm
preston?
Ten 10 one you have been thinking of yourself;
what people would think Of this and that, and the
other thing how you compared with other folks;
whether you were not the envy and admiration of
all; and If not, why not?
On the other hand, plain, unpretending So-and-
20, filed with love for all things great and small
anxious TO help others. and thinking nothing at all
about planness that the Lord gave and there
fore not to be undone has been quietly scattering
sunshine I'm the paths Of many, and the many in
turn have gathered up the sunshine and reflected
back halo and a glory the plain. unselfsh
River, such as no earlh-gilding bestow. And
SO-and-so is loved OF many, who not the plain,
unattraciive face, but the glory OF the seventh
sphere shining from the splendor of reflected hap
piRess; and So-and-so is happy, in spite of all
comeliness, and you are the most unhappy mortal
who ever pRmpered SELF or lived for appearances
alone.
THE DOMESTIC PROBLEM.
Housekeepers who comp sin-aud they are
legion-ihat it never was so difficult to get
good help in the house. girl who does not want
The earth. will be interested in the same problem
as it presented itself to the hOusekeepers OF cen
tury ago. Dunlap & Claypoole's AnsericoR Daily
Advertiser OF Dec 4. 1894 contained The following
want:
want 10 hire q Servant Girl, who has once
coDdescended 20 do housework. She shall have a
Black Woman to do the drudgeTy. and White
Girl. OF fourteen. to carry her expresses TO her
Lover My cosch shall be at her call every after
noon At five ociock-twice in the week she may
attend the Amphitheatre. yulgarly called the
Circus. She would be more acceptable il she has
taste Tor Novels, can dance well, and knows the
secret characters Of the ladies ia high life ia Town.
To such a one generous wages will be given.
y. B.-None need apply tina; will not engage
for one month, as the ladies Of the present day
twho hire OUT often break their contract slip Off
10 the great embarrassment Of their employer.
Apply at number G. Petticost Lane.
New York fourth December seventeen hun
cred and nineiy-four."