The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-11-04

scrimping has saved up couple of
thousand dollars-isn't he the nuis-
ance though?
Oh, you know him all right. Know
him, because. not.content with saving
himself, he wants you to save. He
pleads and expostulates with you to
save. He demands you to save. He
bullyrags and bulldozes you to save.
You don't envy him his hard wrung
couple of thousand at all. You're
glad he has got 1t. You don't, how
ever, feel that a couple of thousand
saved up with such bitter effort
would do you, yourself. any good.
You don't want savings wrenched out
of the ordinary comforts of life in
that way. And IL you had the couple
of thousand a still, small voice tells
you that you'd be pretty liable to blow
1t within month or so anyhow.
Therefore you are content that he
shall go on having his saved up two
thousand and some odd bones, IL he'll
only keep still about it, If he'll only
take away that noise he makes about
why you ought to get on your saving
clothes.
But he won't. Nor, sir, he will not
He refuses to. He's going to keep
right at you about saving. He's going
to force you to see the advantages,
the benignities, of saving. He's going
to put 1t square before you.
He's going to make you save.
He has thousand ways Of tackling
you. He's with you, for example,
when you buy couple of cigars for
two bits.
Rotten extravaganza" he says to
you as he sinks his teeth into one of
the two for quarter smokes. Per
fectly rotten. Where dye expect
you'll pull up IL you keep right on
hurling your dust away like that?
know, but I won't say. I'd hate to
say. Doggone it all, l will say it
you'll pull up on the poor farm, that's
where you'll pull up. Idea of chuck
ing in twenty-five cents for two piffing
smokes. You must be crazy! Look
at me. l smoke stOgies. Get hun
dred of 'em for hundred cents. And
they're every blamed bit as good as
these two for a quarter things. Fell
| low gets used to 'em. I'd rather
smoke stogies now, in fact, than these
fool things. Think what you could
do worth while with that two bits.
Why, it's the interest for year on a
| five dollar note at five per cent.
You're bughouse, that's all. You'll
never have anything. You'll die a
bum. You hear me a-talkin."
You tell him mildly that it's all
| right-that il you're destined to die
a bum, as he says, why, you'll be able
to cast back and reflect upon the fun
| you've had. But he snorts at that.
| He snorts, in fact, at virtually every
| reason you give as to why you desire
to blow in your own coin after your
| own ideas of coin blowing. He's one
of the busiest little snorters we have,
as simple matter of fact.
Or maybe he'll get at you with ref
erence to the clothes you wear.
"How much did that fool Willie off
the pickle boat suit of clothes that
you're sporting set you back?" he
asks you.
You mutter something about sixty
five bucks.
"Sixty-fve iron men for that mess
of togs that makes you look like
somebody trying to make a hit with
himself, hey?" chops that friend OF
yours who has tucked away some saw
ings. well, I'd like to have a peek
at the inside of your head under the
violet rays, that's all I've got to say
Sixty-five bones for that suit, eh?
Well, 1t is to laugh. It's to laugh to
think that there's man on earth sc
pinheaded. Say, you see this suit
that I'm wearing now, don't your"
You do. You don't tell him what
you think it looks like because you
don't want to hurt his feelings.
"Well," he goes on, "d'ye know
how many summers I've got out oi
this suit? This is the fourth sum
mer! Got it in the summer of 1905
and I've been banging around in Il
every summer since. And what dye
think paid for it? Hey? l paid
| s11.99 for this suit of clothes, and
I'll get still one more summer out oi
it. And If it doesn't look every bit a!
good as that sixty-five buck suit
you've got on I'll eat my linoleum lid
that's what I'll do"
That's the way the saving friend
keeps right on barking at you.
He hears somewhere or other thai
last night you dropped eighteer
simoleons playing poker. He holds
you up the minute he meets up will
you.
$50 you're tossing your kale at the
snowbirds again, hey?" he says a
you. Thought you were going t.
flag that poker stuff. hey? Didn't yot
tell me you were going to stick all o.
the poker money henceforth into tha
building and loan association l wai
telling you about?"
You tell him yes, you had intended
to get into that building and loan as
sociation, but that you met up will
bunch of fellers that had a littlt