The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-09-17
The Extravaganza Of Some Sorts
Of Economy.

you want IL, IOr rear you u sohio -"
have to do without something 20
want when you don't want it."
When you come to look into this dc
finition it may gradually dawn upol
YOU thst Its author was thorough
philosopher, One doesn't often fine
so much wisdom compressed into q
few words.
Man is the only thing in nature
which practices the Tragedy virtue o
economy. The trees don't undertake
to save last years clothes. The sur
paints gorgeous pictures in the sky
and RIBS them off the canvass in an
hour, or a minute. The light and
heat and moisture join hands in riot.
GUS extravaganza OF flower-decora-
ton in forest depths where no man
can see, aud in few months the won.
derful spectacle is "as tale that lie
told" Spring does not save up her
balmy days against the glaring SUM
mer, nor does summer store its heat
that the winter may be warm. Ma
ture is a great spendthrift.
Should man, then, take example
from Nature2 BY no means, in re-
spect of her reckless squanderihg; for
man Is the one thing in Nature which
Is accountable to higher power. to
his own moral sense. and who stands
in a responsible relation to "the sorry
scheme of things entire" But in just
how far may he spend and should he
saves What is right limit?
/ maintain that economy can reach
such a point that the practice of it be-
comes a serious extravaganza.
The danger is that we should come
to consider money-saving as the only
kind of economy. If money is the
most valuable thing in the world, well
and good; then let us save money, by
all means. But it seems to me that
there are some other possessions quite
as valuable as money; some things
that give larger returns than the cost
Of the money that is expended on
them; some other things that leave us
poor indeed if we foolishly deprive
of them, for fear OF violating
4 tradition as to the virtue of econo-
nizing only in the spending of money.
The little boy described salt as 'the
fluff that makes potatoes taste bad if
you don't put any of it on" III a
certain sense, money is the stuff that
makes life taste bad if it is kept con-
inually in bank, or interest bearing
or cupboard-corners. The
rood of it is to make life easier and
'etter, Give it a chance.
One may Save at the spigot and
waste at the bunghole." A man who
to use only such pins as he
nay pick up in the street may, in the
curse of a year, save forty or fifty
recious cents at a cost of about
wenty dollars worth of time. "Time
money" says the proverb; it is the
lost valuable commodity know of.
economy in money-spending is not to
= compared, in virtuous proceeding,
18th economy in corresponding.
Ihen we waste time in saving money
e are extravagant fools.
Likewise, when we waste opportu-
tiles for legitimate enjoyment, for the
net pleasures, for the little happiness
J that too rarely visit us in this serious
between the two eterni-
es, because of a horror of their small
we are extravagant be-
md estimate. The drive with wife
Id children, the trifiing outing, the
nall Inequalities to our friends, the
lrchase of the book or print or bunch Z
flowers, occasional visit to the the =
re, the thousand and one little treats :
at beckon to us from the wayside- +
ese small enjoyments should be y
lied as very precious things in life, !.
I'd it is senseless ECONOMY" which :,
CUES for neglect of them. 1t isn't y
e big events that count for largest Y
tai in life's success it is the wee \
easures which makes life worth v
ring. =
The capacity for pleasure grows
it'll the exercise of it. The unhap-
est mortal l know is a miserable C,
'or, rich man who spent sixty years il
his life in accommodating fortune y
ling without recreation, stinting in "
cry direction, denying himself every W
easure that required the outlay of 81