The Republican., 1897-07-08

Inc Baltimore ECeUtUQ NetCS IaSU
Saturday, contained the following
excellent article, under the above
caption, and which is reproduced in
these columns, the article being wOr-
thy of close study, and in the hope
that it may be the means of bringing
many to see the little errors everyone
| is sure to make
ITO be economical, in the general
acceptance of that word, is to act the
part of the good husbandman who
garners in his grain and disposes of it
in the most prOvident fashion. A few
bouts with the hard condition of
making ones living soon blind the
average person to the serious consid-
| Grafton of much else. To be canny in
the management of ones dollars is,
therefore, to earn the title of ecOno-
mist. Many, however, who are
pointed to as shining examples of
thrift, are by no means real econo-
mists.
Economy in its full sense means
more than the care of ones bank
account. The true economist is
financier of his body as well as a for
! tune-the man who wisely conserres
all his forces, who refuses to make
! ducks and brakes of his physical
funds, of his nervous energies. There
are plenty of business colleges which
afford one the requisite training for
the duties of the counting house.
| Civilization with an ever increasing
| insistence on specialization of talent
| is diligent in its efforts to equip the
! toiler with the science of his trade
But has it learned as yet to teach
effectively the science of mental and
physical pervision? The world of to-
! day is strewn with millions of inetfi-
| cient human machines - men with
brains and bodies like broken cog
wheels, in whom forces run to waste
unnecessarily; men who squander
vital fuel in the race for life. Few are
economists in the sense of having
acquired a knowledge of how to order
their bodily powers 50 as to secure the
most satisfactory results.
"No fewer than the physical prod
| igals of to-day are those who are not
able to eliminate from their paths the
trihes of eXistence-those innumera-
| bic trying annOyances that persist in
! idly buttonhOling humanity, so sue
cessful in tripping up the mind of the
! professional or the business man to
the defeat of his real ends. Such
instructions are too often the cause
of fruitless life. They come to us
| daily under the false guise of inevita-
bic casualties They seem to be the
| stern interventions of fate. But in
many instances they are merely the
result of lack of system, of failure
| to master the practical economy of
| life. The strength that should be
saved for a combat with that which
represents our chief ambitions is
exhausted in trying to overcome the
things that needlessly waylay us, the
existence of which depends largely
on whether we recognize them or not.
With something of the unreasoning
instinct of the bull in the arena,
which dashes wherever red scarf is
waved instead of charging directly at
the toreador, we are constantly being
lured from main issues to a struggle
with what is eXtraneous and needless.
1T is training in the larger econo-
mics of life that carries the modern
worker to his goals. Such economy
consists primarily in grounding ones
self in the gospel of the body-in learn
ing to gauge ones physical capacity
for work and using that capacity as a
bank account upon which to draw
frugally such drafts as actually pay
ones onward way. An understand
ing of the simple phenomena of ones
natural forces, so that their preserva-
tion becOmes an instinct and not a