The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-06
ROCKEFELLER PROBLEM.
ALL HIS DOLLARS WERE LOST
 GOLF BALLS,
i'd He Spent His Life Hunting, How
 soon Would He Be n Pauper:

nd He Spent His Life Hunting, How
 Soon Would He Be a Pauper:
 What is your pet economy? Mine is 3iIar buttons. You see, l take you ato my confidence before you have a nance to deny that you have such sling. All the same, I'll wager you ave. I have yet to meet the indlVidu-
 man or woman, who has not some ct economy which is cherished with he dogged unreason of early habit. es, I confess that mine-the principal ne-is collar buttons. Think of it! en cents for a collar button! Or twenty-five for a better one; though hat is only plated. have a set' and 4 he or two to spare; but the spare ones re a recent acquisition. One was hristmas present-one of the most ac- # eptabIe I ever had! It is a solid gold ? ne I always had wanted solid gold # bllar button, and would like to have hree or four more; but never have able to. bring myself to invest so 4teh cdpss-l~ in that particular adjunct the Mararone'@f fphey are liable to be ost, and have a way 0f >aIling under he bureau, when not observed, or De- ng picked up by the servants. Several ines Inaye been on the point Of buy ng all the cellar buttons l want; but he good resolution never happened to e coincident with the opportunity to purchase.
 I find no such difficulty in regard to ther incidents of apparel. bought amboyant waistcoat the other day. : he price of which would have stocked ; he in collar buttons for the rest of my latural life; and did not feel that 1t vas an extravaganza, either. But hied at the collar button tray in the aberdasher's, and hurried out, clutch rg tightly the change from ten dol lar bill, as if fleeing from some awful esnptation.
 K inflict these personalities upon the eader merely by way of illustration is not that my experience is unique. Kou have your pet economy, too. Yealth is no eradicator for them. h. eed, it is among the wealthy that the !, host delightful specimens are to be j ound. am reliably informed that one MT. Rockefeller's most cherished conomies is golf balls. To lose a golf ail rings his heart. Even an old acked and dilapidated ball, gone in < he tall grass, will weigh on his mind MI through dinner, and his man will lave orders to make special search in he afternoon to see if it can't be re- V5vered. I have in mind a particular casion. and a particular ball, and 1t
 circumstantially related that, on the
 e afternoon while still stewing
 lit the little pellet of India rubber,
 tailed his private secretary and had
 write check subscribing five mill
 dollars to charitable purpose
 nk of it! How many golf balls can
 Sought for a dollar? How many for
 sundred dollars? A thousand? A # M? A hundred million? If all
 Afeller's dollars were convert
 Slf balls, and he should spend $ slae rest of his life Knocking them into lHSng tail grass, how old would he have x o be before he became pauper? If sSie lived the span of the Old Testament l 3atriarchs, and worked hard, fancy !. le would have qiute pile before him linen the Man with the Scythe called ilne,
 String is one of the commonest of the bet economies Haven't you friend have) who insists, always and inev- X tably, upon stopping to unite the. knots N order to save the string about the sarcel? No matter what haste or inn 3a tfHnce attends the opening; no mat" er that there is a great wad of string aved. It might come handy. Now tand here and denounce that practice $ irrational, illogical absurdity. l an sinancipated from the string habit and
 know. The string economy is nc nore rational than my collar-button br Mir. Rockefeller's golf ball, economy ft is just one of these pet economies o which I am speaking.
 N# Other instances which occur to me # Ire of the man who borroWs his neigh S sor's newspaper to save one or two < sents; and the one who insists on wear ne the same tie for a year, despite the 5 protest of his family; and the other YfIo labors, and compromises with his < onscience to knock down" street car ares.
 Let each and all remember that pet Economies are limitations. They are S eiI-tales, tattling of a time when we < Fere engrossed only in getting. They Ire sure evidences, also, of slovenly at- < ention to the rudiments of the second 2 hapter on finance.
 know; and some day I shall get olid gold collar buttons.-Atlantic Nonthly.