The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-03-21
JIM

II don't believe that saving has any
thing to do with It," said the Ieonoclast.
II know that it's the general idea, and
it has been drummed into me ever since
I was foot high that a man has to
save to get rich but there's nothing in
it. My father believed in it and made
| it work, but didn't take that as any
sign that l had to-"
II don't know that it was necessary
to tell me that" remarked his friend,
but perhaps it's Just as well to have
one's suspicious confirmed"
My father held me down. contin-
ued the IcOnocast. He had a hard
time of it when he was young, and he
didn't see any good reason why / should
dream away the idle hours and get the
impression that this was a good old
world that we lived in for any purpose.
He wanted me to realize that it was
tough and chilly and a hard place to get
toe hollis. l used to envy my cousin
Jim and generally after | had argued
for half an hour with the old man to
get him to jar himself from a quarter I
would instance the beautiful relations
existing between Jim and his father,
Jim can get quarter any time he
wants It, I would say.
Yes the old man would reply
And then what does he do with it after
he gets it? Spends it. Yes, sir; he
spends it.
81 limited that it seemed a perfectly
rational thing to do, but when I talked
in that way it always made my father
angry. When I was q young man he
said, was lucky enough to get work
in a general store at a salary of two
hundred and forty dollars a year. DO
you know what 1 did?"
Yes sir you saved two hundred
dollars out of your first years salary
! knew that because he had told me
about 1t before-about two hundred and
fifty times. He finally quit 1t when /
got to anticipating the story and telling
it for him. Yes he said, little dis
concerted that's what | did, and 1t Is
the only way to do It don't make any
difference how little you are getting
save. AS for Jim, he will never amount
to a row of pins He lies in bed all the
and plays the fiddle in the ef-
ternoon and goes to see his girl at,night
What kind of a way Is that for a young
man to dO?'
at struck me as an ideal existence
but | had the good sense to keep from
saying 50. 1t was true about Jim,
though He had just come back from
college and he was not quite decided as
to what he would do. or course he
didn't trot with the swift class there
because his father could only just
scrape enough to get him through COM
but he aspired to sWiftness,
and he had the weakness for dress that |
has since made his Waistcoats the envy
and despair of the jeunesse dOree of |
Chicago Most of the folks thought !
hat Jim would be only doing the proper |
thing to ehuck his coat and do some
stunts in the bayfield, to show his graft (
Lude. Jim said he was going to try to |
get rid Of what seed already chung to |
his ambrosal locks and he thought the !
subject of his future career was one ,
hat required long and coreful delibe-
alton. So he took his time to delibe-
'ate.
1T was about that time that my faith
" stepped in and saved him-to hear
he old man tell IT, I said that jim
liked to adorn himself. Well, my father
7ad a set of amethyst shirt studs that
re used to stick on to himself on state
occasions. I tell you they We're hot !
studs. Jim thought that if he only had
hem they would be all right and he
ooked at them with such hunger in his