Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-01-16
PRETTY ECONOMICS.
Some of tho Rich Have Peculiar Notions
About Saving.

Some Of tho Rich Havc Peculiar Notions
About Saving.
Shoes were the pet meanness or das-
tjnguished French nobleman whosc
ground rents in London alone would
have s.iod all its inhabitants for CEN
turtles to come. 1t is related OF hin. thar
he once took his favorite pair in per-
son to a cssbbler, and that after care
fully exam aiming them the man SAID
to him: i never saw the like since
I've been at the business. You are
either the greatest pauper in England
or the marquis Of -"
Il am the marquis, not the pauper,"
said his lordship, and, far from being
offended, seemed greatly amused. To
mount a new pair of shoestrings. even.
is pain and grief to him, and new
pair of shoes always brings on violent
fit of govt, so vehemently is he opposed
to the sad necessity of DOMINIC item a.
all.
Lord E1don was peer of this. pat
tern, only he proceeded to the other
extremity and would never allow his
wife and daughter but one bonnet be-
tween them. One wonders what pref
ty Betty Surtees saw in him to induce
her to elope with him, cost what it
might.
There is aFrenchman whose eccen-
tricity in respect of a pet meanness is
often commented upon in Paris. for,
though he has a model establishment
and positively rolls in money, he can
not bear to use towels freely-his own
or his neighbors'. 1t is said that upon
~, 4 <,f
Brittany for a week he took his hostess
aside privately and showed her ovei
three dozen towels that he had been
gloating over for days. ,"AH these,
madame, I have saved" he remarked,
with great delight. "Your servants
put them in my room, it is true, but !
and my wife have only used one be-
tween us. Servants are careless, waste
full creatures; return the rest
1t is very curious thing that every
body, nearly, has a rooted aversion to
giving away some one thing. No mat
ter how generous the man or woman
may be, in this one thing, he or she is
a miser.
Baron James Rothschild did not in
the least mind giving thousands OF dol
dozens of directions; but when it came
to stamps the great fnancier, it is said
could not bear to pay the postage on
his private letters, but would send
them at the expense of the firm. With
''Alme. Chere Mere" in one of Fred,
erila Bremer's charming stories, It was
lace. She could give her children
houses and lands, and to yield them
fields and farms did not cause her a
pang; but when it became a question
of duchess point" she confessed that
nothing could be more painful than to
part from the least bit of it. One of
the richest women in this country
boards matches as if they were so
many wands studded with diamonds.
She will give one or two under protest
to a relative in need of them, bit she
buys them by the gross, and lights and
relights them until the last charred
butt falls off, leaving her often with
burnt fingers and a regretful wish that
''she could have used that once more"
When her children come of age she
gives each of them 5000, 900 with the
greatest possible cheerfulness, but if
they were to ask for whole box OF
matches she would feel that she was
being impoverished, and if they took
six that she was being robbed.
Then there is the well-known case
of the millionaire who supports news
boys home, but who will never buy a
paper unless he can beat the boy who
is selling it and get it at half price,
after which he not infrequently pre-
sents him with quarter.-Philadel
phia Item.