San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-10
PRETTY ECONOMICS.
Some of the Rich Have Peculiar Notions
I About Saving.

Z About saving
Shoes were the pet meanness of dis
tinguished French nobleman whose
ground rents in London alone would
have shod all it's inhabitants for cen.
turtles to come. 1t is related of him that
he once took his favorite pair in per-
son to a cobbler, and that after care
fully examining them the man said
to him: Il never saw the like since
I've been at the business. You are
either the greatest pauper in England
or the marquis Of
81 am the marquis, not the pauper,"
said his lordship, and, far from being
offended, seemed greatly amused. To
mount new pair of shoestrings. even,
is pain and grief to him, and a new
pair of shoes always brings on aviolent
fit of govt, so yehemently is he opposed
to. the sad necessity Of DOMINIC them AZ
all.
Lord Eldon was a 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 Frenchman 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
staying at one of the old castles of
Brittany for week he took his hostess
aside privately and showed her over
three dozen towels that he had been
gloating over for days. "All these,
madame, l have saved" he remarked,
with great delight. Your servants
put them in my room, it is true, but l
and my wife have only used one be-
tween us. Servants are careless, waste
full creatures; / return the rest"
It is a 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
mag be, in this one thing, he or she is
a miser.
Baron James Rothschild did not in
the least mind giving thousands of dol.
lars to hospital, tens of thousands in
dozens of directions; but when ID came
10 stamps the great fnancier, 10 is said
coufd not bear to pay the postage on
his private letters, but would send
them at the expense of the firm. With
Nine. Chere Mere" in one Of Fred.
eyko Bremer's charming stories, it was
lace. She could give her children
houses and lands, and to yield them
feds and farms did not cause her a
paag; but when it became . question
Of duchess point" she confessed that
hsshing could be more painful than to
part from the least bit Of 10. One of
the richest women in this country
hoards matches as if they were so
many wands studded with diamonds
She will give one or two under protest
to d relative in need of them, but she
esys them by the gross, and lights and
re6ghts them until the last charred
bxtt falls off, leaving her often with
ssuae fingers and a regretful wish that
Sire could have used that once more"
Wien her children come of age she
gives each of them 300 900 with the
genSest possible cheerfulness, but il
SheJ were to ask for a whole box OF
matches she would feel that she was
being impoverished, and if they tool;
six Hat she was being robbed.
Then there is the well-known eass
of the millionaire who supports news
boys home, but who will never buy {
Paper unless he can beat the boy whC
is selling it and get it at half price
after which he not infrequently pre-
SCENTS him with a quarter.-Philadel
phia Item.
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