The morning times., 1897-02-28

ECONOMY iOT you might from lLiS lOAil
OF view, be rank extravaganza for me.
Poverty and riches depend upon the point
OF view and what one ideals Of living are.
The most OF Us, happily, are neither rich
nor poor in our own estimation, whatever
we may be TO others. We all own 10
oe!ng a little pinched now and then, be
cause the outgoes multiply faster than the
incomes. 4 screw is loose somewhere in
our makeup or it would not be so.
For instance ones income antecedents,
OF bringings up, do not always harmunize.
The wheel Of fortune keeps going round,
and If we have been up, now it is our
turn tc he down. See hcw We take that.
DO we adapt ourselves? Not bit Of it;
ct least not often. This conflict between
'.then'' and NOW" is no new disease,
and IT seldom kills anybody. Rather, il
eventually is more often the making Of a
man OF woman, and something to be
thankful for rather than TO mourn over.
Some persons can easily 90 a great
many nice things with their resources,
which for US, would be just to fritter away
our means and opportunities, TO waste our
substance and be rank pTodigals. Don't let
keep in mind.
Ii may be that our self-denials, our in
ability TO co our selfaIlottcd pant in the
worlds work, or even our own church
work may cause us many a pang OF regret,
not to say downright sorrow: but all tie
same, we must submit to what tie fates
decree, and do our paU as best we may
fl the crippled way which people GO who
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hobble ard pinch along through the conflict.
Now, on reflection, am not SO sure but
the people who are making sacrifices to
live noble lives are living them more truly
than they whose good deeds cost them
nothing but an outlay OF superfluous cash.
That long word ''suFeTiluous' came very
near sticking on the tip OF my pencil, for
I've seen bat few people OF means who
were willing to own they had any super
fluous cash. Ores necessities oGtrun the
largest incomes oftener than not.
IuXuTies for US plain people
have become necessities, through use,
TO some other people. But let US rejoice
rather than weep over their extravaganza.
For the more the rich spend, the more
money themerchant, the importer, thedTess-
maker, the baker, the conieCtioner, the
1eweler, the florist, ard thousand others
who contribute 10 their necessities receive.
Even the in-wind of luxurious expenditures
might blow much worse. If the riCh took
60 pinching and saving. and dubbed it
''econoInizing,' Just because the times are
somewhat hard.
That old pIoverb, The hest is always
cLeapest.'' has done more mischief than
e little in this world. Everybody can
not, or ought not, have the best. They
NAV in one sense deserve it as much as
another: but who is there that has not
yet found out some OF the sweetest souls
the world has ever known have never had
their deserts Will not this side
OF heaven? God does not recompense that
way We were not put here to wear our
lives out with envy, TO cultivate discon-
tent, or TO go down to our graves mourn
ing because our chariot has not yet been
harnessed up for US. We were put here to
make the most OF our hves-to improve
our talents, to increase them, and TO live
% make life richer in loving kindness, in
tender mercies, and sweet charities, than
Il was before we came. Failing these, and
seeking only pleasure and happiness, we
other. but with true living our ideal hap
piness VIII surely accompany even those
who are most sorely tried. That is simple,
philosophical experimental truth, and
not can't.
That old proverb ought to read, Get
the best you can afford" Only an Astor
or Vanderbilt can afford TO get the very
grades OF all kinds of goods worth buying
that fail below the standard Of a million
aires needs. Why strain after the IN
sttainable, and thus add another Unneces-
sary care to your load? Is it not enough
70 have the satisfaction Of knowing you
possess a good thing that is simply good?
II there are many needs and only small
margin in your purse, why make yourself
uncomfortable because you cannot stretch
st indefinitely? Taste and refinement,
selection, choice, are all good werds, and
IL cultivated as qualities Will enable you
possibly TO get more real enjoyment out OF
your life ana income than another who has
striven merely TO gain wealth can possibly
do. tits what one is capable OF appTeciat-
ing. asSimilaGng. or making his own, that
enriches life, and not his rent roll. his
bank account, or stocks in railroads or in
mines. The same principle applies to a
woman's life as well.
What constitutes the best physicians, or
the best dentists-or the best accomnloda-
tions? Simply and only this: Those pro-
fessional people hare arrivcdat recognition,
where others are still striving and on the
road.
The best accommodations may be conven-
tionally defined as the worlds standards
OF the fitness of things. Sometimes they
are one thing and at other times they arc
what was once despised and scornedas un-
suitable All conventional customs are like
movable feasts, regulated by somebody or
some law; and one can be reasonably happy
and contentedIy housed without so much
conventional fussing-if he only will.
Fashion sets q value upon her wares,
even her successes, which are more or
less fictitious. Great humbugs have al
ways been great social successes. Spe-
cialists' signs are to he met on every
hand in all our cities whose business in
life 1t is to lCok wise and to deceive
Not to tread on anybody's toes, VIII not
paTticulaIize. There are no greater hum
bugs in all history than some men and
women of obscure antecedents buzZing
around from City to city, pretending to
cure diseases by methods most unscien-
tific, and 10 be wise beyond all the sages
of the past and all the colleges OF the
present, merely through some kind OF
occult and undefinabe methods that fill
one with wonder. There are people credu-
lous enough to swallow all these miraculous
nreteuses without so much as irving to