Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-06
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five cents day to men and women who
Gid their washing. or four dollars per week,
the washers providing their own meals.
Since the Cinnamon cut their own rate
in consequence of the competition among
the two factions of Chinese who are es-
tablished in this city, they pay but sixty
cents per day for washing, or three dollars
Fer week, where they hire help by the
| week As a rule. they prefer to have their
work done by the day.
* X
Economy and stinginess are two differ
ent things" observed a gentleman to a
Star reporter. Il have had considerable ex-
perience in collecting money for a univers-
ity and other religious ard educational
work, and 1 have always found that my
largest contributions came from the men
and women who were NEST economical.
The free and easy, the spendthrift and the
people who have their purse at their fin
gers end, seldom give any large sums for
universities or other great work. They con-
tent themselves with letting their money
so out as readily and as easily as it comes
in, but in small packages When 1 start
out for a subscription from those who have
secured wealth by economy, 1 feel that I
am more likely to succeed and succeed
handsc mely than do when lay siege on
those who got their mony easily. Some
time ago / had occasion to visit New York
and the Offices of two or three very proMi-
nent men to get them interested in a
Washington university. 1t happened that
the day 1 called at the office of one of
them, another gentleman / wanted to see
Has also there. AS l entered the room l
found them complaining to the office mes
Senger because he had cut the cord from a
bundle rather than unite the knots in it.
These men were economical in everything
that related to their business. and it was
but natural that they should resent any
waste They both subscribed handsomely
to the work 1 presented to them, though
many that 1 met spoke Of them as being
stingy. 1 had a similar experience in this
city AS i was entering the house of a
well-known gentleman 1 met a lady coming
out. knew the lady, and spoke to her and
asked if the gentleman I wanted to see
was in his house. She told me that he was,
and that she had just had an experience
with him that convinced her that he was
the stingiest man in the city. She explained
to me that she mad just settled up a finan-
cial matter with him, released mortgage
for a rather large sum, and that in the cal
culatiOn for the interest it was found that
there were a certain number of dollars due
and twenty-five cents; that she had asked
him to strike of the twenty-five cents, so
that she could draw an even check and
that he had declined to do so. insisting on
every penny due. which she had paid.
Though she thought this prejudiced me
against him, 1t had the opposite effect. and
1t was not many minutes afterward when
without very much solicitation from me he
gave me the entire check he had received
from her, for the university. 1t was his
habits of economy and strict business trans
actions not stinginess. that made him de-
mand up to the last cent that what was
due him. He gave 1t all over to me with
much easier grace than she gave up her
check for the odd twenty-five cents. The
lady, 1 may mention, has no idea of what
economy is, for she or none Of her family
has ever practiced it,"