Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-10

As the would-be borrower walked away
In bad temper. the writer for The Star
heard him say to himself, his reflections
undoubtedly referring to the man who
would not lend him the "fver" Hang him!
I'll get even with him! He's as rich as
Croesus, too
He Is rich. He has stocks and bonds and
houses and all of those good things that yield
money to their possessor, but he cannot az
ford to buy flowers for a girl, and he can
not afford to loan a friend five dollars. In
point Of fact he Is like a certain class of
rich young men who never squander their
money. and who never spend more than
half their income. They have horses,
perhaps. but they buy them cheap II they
can. and they take such care of them that
II Is wonder they do not live forever. In
the same way they have fine clothes, but
they wear them so carefully that the sup
ply lasts much longer than II would II 1t
belonged to a poor man. They are club
men. Of course, but who ever sees them
giving stag dinner treating their
friends to champagne? They go into socie-
ty, too, and there the reputation of being
rich gives them a great deal better posi-
ton than Is accorded to poorer men. but
the thermometer must get down pretty low
before they can ever be induced to give a
theater party or a supper. They travel
somewhat. but they do 1t alone.
Never Made Their Money.
And yet these fellows never had to make
their money, and one would suppose they
would be all the more ready to spend it
loosely. since they cannot appreciate how
hard 1t was to make 1t. But they do ap-
preciate how pleasant 1t is to have it, and
consequently. they have a mortal dread of
losing 1t. They have been brought up too
carefully. that Is the trouble. From their
earliest infancy they have been told there
is nothing worth having in the world but
money, and they have been trained with
great care in the art of parting with 1t
slowly. The parental fortune is safe in the
hands of men of this kind. 1t will be hus-
banded and probably added to by judicious
marriage. The children will be brought up
as the father was brought up, and there is
every probability that the fortune will
main In the family for several generations,
until, perhaps, some unworthy scion of the
house appears with a tremendous faculty
for squandering. when the careful accumu
lations of generations will be scattered to
the winds
Are there any fortunes too large to be
squandered? 1t is hard to say, since the
great fortunes of the world seem to have
always descended to careful men, but if the
owner of grand estate sets out to manage
1t himself and speculates with 1t foolishly,
| then 1t can be dissipated in time. But
given careful management of the estate it.
self. do the lucky men who get the proceeds
often feel themselves financially embarrass-
ed?
Half Million Year.
The writer once knew a man who had an
| income of 100000 a year and who was gen
erous, but without any vices. He kept
| away from the turf, except in gentleman
rider races; he did not play cards. except
when he was obliged to do SO, and then he
never bet high; he did not smoke; he drank
very little. He tried to spend his money
and he succeeded, but he was alone in the
NOR nd
complish. He had house in New York
and another one here, and also apartments
in Paris. He kept several horses at all
three places. he gave many parties, gave
many things away, sent flowers here and
there. tossed jewel-y around among bis
friends, even gave away horse or two
But he found IL was a hard thing to live
up to his income, If he stayed long in one
place, so he would dash from New York to
Paris, from Paris to New York from New,
York to Washington, and then 20 and do (,
all over again He finally found il a bore
and abandoned the houses here and in New
York and went to live in Paris TO. good
There he has found opportunities of spend
ing money which do not exist elsewhere
He can buy a bouquet of Asiatic orchids If
he wants to spend a few hundred dollars
and he is surrounded by fai. creatures who
cause a rich man to feel that he may With
out much difficulty some day be poor. He
has acquired a yacht, too. and he who does
that has provided for himself a means of
spending money which is probably I'm
eQualed.
Two Grand Divisions.
or rich young men there can, generally
speaking be said to be two grand divisions
the mean and thrifty. and the generous
and improyident. The latter give q great
deal of their money away, not, however, in
charity, but in the form of unjust charges
for what they buy. The sharks in the COM
munity are apt to find these men out and to
regard them as legitimate game and charge
them prices which they do not take the
trouble to dispute. They know they are be-
| ing cheated but they are TOO good-natured
and easy-going to protest. They are apt to
go through their pleasures at a pretty rapid
pace and then there are no pleasures left.
perhaps they marry and have wives who
manage them, in which event they are
fortunate, or they get wives VINO humor
them and they are unfortunate. or they have
wives VINO don't care to manage or hunor
them at all, but who simply spend all the
money and have a good time
You see that fellow" said a Young man
one gay as he stood on the curbstone and
watched young millionaire driving 4 beau
tiful dog cart with pair of high-steppiny
nags In tandem before it. How | envy
nm! he Is good-leokins. his health is good,
| he Is popular, and / declare | believe he is
the happiest fellow alive, for he has oceans
OF money. All, l wish / had some of it,"
The next day the newspapers announced
| that the young millionaire had committed
suicide: Why shouldn't he have done SC?
He had only to wish for a thing to he able
to get 1t. He had had everything had tried
every sport and amusement had tired of
them all. was without intellectual longines
so he concluded he had had about enough
of life. The same newspaper announced
another suicide of man who was also tired
of life. for the reason that he had nothing
was starving in fact. The two extremes
had produced the same final result
The LuckieSt Rich Young Man.
The truth is that the luckiest rich young
man Is the one that has intellectual aspira-
tions He can his leisure for studying
and the more he studies the more he will
want to study. This is a very different be
ing from the rich man who has intellect as
| a fad,who likes to know some men of brains
to belong to historical societies and organi-
cations of that character. to have a good
library and to look at the title pages of the
books and all the time to keep up the other
side OF life also-horseS, hounds, suppers
clubs, &c. This man then becomes known
| In an uncertain sort of a way as society
man when he is not in the society set and
| as man of intellect when he is in society
| He generally has an idea that he must write
book, and, perhaps, If he is an honest fell
| low. he writes it himself and publishes it.
| 1t Is bad-oh, yes, there is no denying that
| but 1t Is a book, and how many of his rich
! associates have ever written a book? He
| likes to send 1t around to his friends and
| they are glad to accept it, and, of course,
| don't read it. or if they do. hardly know
/ n fotC h. l,