The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-05-04
THE RAINY DAY.
A Talk with Homekeepers About
Providing for Emer-
geDcies.

A very reprehensible habit is that OF
living from hand to mouth To the
Young woman who earns a small but
stated and seemingly sure salary, it is
d temptation which should be sturdily
met and overcome. 1t is so easy TO live
right up to ones income. or even a lit
tie beyond it, thinking that ii can east
~ be made up from the next Install
ment. And to the charitably disposed,
generous soul. it seems heartless MOTTO
lend or give in an emergency, when she
has the actual cash needed, in hand or
in the bank To such one it seems
meanly sordid and selfish to refuse to
put the hand in the pocket or draw
on the small bank account.
But is it really selfish? The money
earning woman runs the risk of being
laid by at any time by means Of sick
ness or accident. When in health and
strength such contingency seems far
away and quite improbable. We are
apt to see others around US unfortun
ate. and to bindly suppose that moth.
ing like that will happen to US Who
knows?
Any day you may be stricken down
and have hospital ard doctor bills to
pay. Do YOU want to be forced to bor-
row money or to rely upon that very IN
certain thing-human friendship? Or
DO you want TO become a burden a.
someone little able to carry more than
is borne now?
Far better is il to systematic things
little Lay by a small sum every
month no matter what demands may
be made upon you. Decide upon a
definite amount that you can afford to
give TO church or charity Don't buy
unnecessary articles of clothing, but at
the same time be sure TO have always
on hand two or three extra suits of
dainty underwear pretty wrapper a
warm dressing sack, pair of bed
room slippers or bed socks, so that in
case Of sudden illness you will be pre-
pared and can feel easy on that score.
1t is Of course most undesirable to 60 |
to the opposite extreme and dwell so
much upon the possibility of misfor-
tune. that in some occult way it is |.
drawn to- you; but he prepared and Their
throw off the thought of such thing
As your bank account begins TO grow
perhaps you will have an opportunity |.
Of investing it securely so as to bring
in a little more income, and so on and
on-and don't you see that by a little
forehandedness you will have put your |
self into position whore you will be |
able TO help others far more effectually |.
than before? AT the same time you
have the satisfaction of knowing that |
YOU need not be obliged to put your
friends to the test. or feel yourself an
object Of charity, should YOU be tenn
porarily under a cloud of any kind,
Then, too, positions are but uncertain |
things. You may be deprived of yours, |
through no fault of your own, but by |
reason of favoritism political pulls, I'M !
fair play upon the part of some un- |
scrupulous person, When You are once /
out il is hard to get in again. "Who- /
soeyer hath not, from him shall he
taken away even that which he hath" 7
is fine epitome of the ways of the I
world. So be careful not to be one of T
the hath nots" and guard against the |
time that may come, when il will per-
hapS seem as though every mans hand |
IS against you. Lay by something for
that trite and proverbi2l rainy day"
1t is all very well to preach, and the
preacher confesses that there was a
time when she did not practice what
she now breaches. She learned the
points of her sermon from bitter eX-
perience and would fain spare some
other bachelor girl the like misfortune.
Everything was going wrong-no reg
ular position; nothing laid by, no extra
clothing to fall back upon; shabbiness
growing shabhier day by day; and then
to cap the climax, a serious illness; !
weeks in the hospital; surgeons and |
physicians bills casting a cloud of debt |
over the future; weeks and months |
spent in regaining strength TO be able
to GO on with the battle Of life again; |
and humiliation after humiliation to |
be endured by an independent soul.
Be advised fellow-worker in this
weary but withal pleasant old world,
and spare yourself n like bitter dose |
of eXperience.-Coral Amira Wheaton. |
in Ladies World.