The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-05-26
LITTLE
Not Always n Benent 10 Those VINO Gel
Them What TO DO with Them.

Not Always n Beneft to Those VINO Get
Them what TO DO with Them.
Il never had any money left to me but
once" said Mr. Gw~imblington, sand that
was not a large amount. it was just an even
hundred dollars; but IL certainly did come
in, as they say, very handy. / bought some
clothes with it, and some other things hat |
needed, and then went right along with my
work just as though nothing had happened.
It certainly did me no harm. but only good;
but I am not 80 sure that people are always
benefited by little legacies. A little Teller
like that, a hundred dollars. | don't suppose
could harm anybody; but about legacies OF.
say, a few hundred or a few thousand dol
lars I am not so sure.
Some people, you know, don't know what
to do with money when they get it. Every
now and then you read Of somebody who
has Just run through forty or fifty thousand
dollars that somebody had left him only a
year before. Not everybody that has
money left to him is like that; some people
IL they get a little windfall of three or four
thousand dollars pay of the mortgage on
their house with IL; some people make IL the
nestegg for Q fortune; there are hard headed
people whose heads are not a bit turned bya
little legacy; but then again there are still
other people who, while they might not
squander a little legacy in riotous living,
would still practically waste 1t by dribbling
II away. For instance:
Suppose somebody leaves us. say. S. 700;
which, to many Of us, would seem like a
good deal Of ~money-like a lot Of money.
And feeling very comfortable over II we
take a good bite out Of it for fine clothes
or the rent of a better house or new furni-
ture. Maybe we think Wen take a longer
vacation this year and go to a more ex-
pensive p~lace-have a good time for once
and perhars we think in the fall We'll enter
tain our friends more. and it takes money
to provide the equir ment for n TO do that;
and in fact the minute we begin TO spend
money the more we want to srend and the
faster we do spend. it; and the first thing
you know we have chewed a big hole in that
81, 600 and then before you realize II the
money is all gone.
Habits Of economy once departed from
are hard to return 70; after a year OF those
things we'd like always to have IL is trying
can really afford. and here is where the
danger comes in. II we don't look out here
and ut the brakes on good and hard when
we come TO realize that that moneys all
gone, we are in danger Of permitting our
felves TO go into debt: something comes
along just then, that we think We must
do or have, and-we haven't the money
we go into debt for il; a terrible mistake
to make; for with the legacy gone and we
in debt we are worse of than we were before
the money came to us at all.
Just this experience has come to many
people to whom have been left small legs-
c'es. or course the only. only thing 10
do with a little legacy is to salt IL; tut II
away somewhere where il will draw intere 1;
into your business. maybe, or into a savings
bank, where you can have the Pleasure OF
seeing IL grow or from which. II you must
have It, you can draw the interest; The
little legacy should be left untouched