Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-05
HOW TO GET RICH.
No New Method Has as Yet Been
Devised.

From the Independent.
Most Men desire wealth. The popular
idea of happiness is associated with a pot
of money He Is a benefactor of his race
therefore, who can show his fellows how to
get rich. Generally speaking. a man does
not go to bed very poor and wake UP In the
morning very rich. although a few cases of
this kind have happened. How then shall
a man get rich? There are various ways
A sharper who advertised the vending of an
infallible recipe for obtaining riches upon
the payment of paltry dollar used to send
the following formula. viz: Work like the
devil and never spend cent? This scheme
Is not consistent with modern ideals
The race track continues crowded with
those in whose hearts there fingers the fond
hope that lucky bet will tempt the goddess
of fortune to outpour her cornucopia. Time
after time, however, she sustains her old
reputation a tickle jade, and statistics
show but few lucky strikes al the race
track. Defalcations have begun at the bet
ting ring, and personal losses that could be
Ill afforded have been suffered because of
the vain hope Of getting rich by devotion to
the turf.
Lottery tickets. policy playing and other
forms of gambling, well called games of
chance, but where the chance is all against
the player who would have wealth, are
other oft-tried methods to get rich quick.
If man could go into Wall street and
BUY STOCKS or DOndS at ~ and presently sell
at 40 he would net require to continue such
a process long before he would be rich.
Every man finds, sooner later, that
wealth has its price, and to buy even it the
price must be fully paid. Self-denial Is one
of the prices of wealth. He that would be
rich must save his money not waste 1t. The
rich man is conservative. A young man
who says to himself at the beginning of his
career Il will be rich must start out by
spending less than he receives. When his
companions squander. he must refrain from
blowing his money In according to the
modern vernacular. He must learn to
finance himself and to keep in touch with
income and outgo He must keep account
of his money. small cash book will easily
answer at first, but careful study Of this
book and an analysis of it will teach him,
as nothing else will. where his money goes
and how to regulate his tides of expenses.
The weak young man who refuses the
amputation of an expense that is unneces-
sary turns voluntarily from the road to
wealth into the side track of, self-ndul-
gence and bids farewell to the goal toward
which he started with unwilling feet Saw
ing by plant is. then. the first step toward
wealth. To this first step there must be ad-
herence, in season and out of season. sum-
mer and winter day and night. The price
of wealth is high, and some men decline to
pay the price when they realize what it
really is. To the rigid keeping of personal
accounts much must be added. An eye,
with the keenness of searchlight, must be
trained to look out for investments that
shall first be safe and, second, profitable
Step by step wealth comes, on the average
when the man seeking 1t goes perSistently
about amassing Ii properly.