Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-07
THE RICH TIGHTwAD.
(Manson Democrat).

| THE RICH T1GHTWAD.
(Manson Democracy.
| IT Is no wonder that some people get
rich and no wonder that those same
people stay rich. for after all. 1t is
not what one makes, but what one
saves. that makes riches. The peo-
pie of Manson are no exception to this
rule In fact they are very much like
people of all other towns and places
as far as money getting and money
pnching goes. When man with a
large family and an income sufficient
only to keep them In comfortable liv
Ing. with a little laid by for rainy
day. attends a church and sits. near a
man with a small family and big in
come, he begins to study up on the
matter OF riches q little. Too often
! the man of small means will pay fully
as much for his pew and support of
his pastor and the church as the man
who has the big wad. And them
when contribution is asked for to
make repairs or defray expenses. the
man with the small income will pay
twice as much as the tightwads with
$4,000 worth of good Iowa land. 1t
is the same in all churches--the man
of ordinary means pays the most
while the average rich man pinches
his dollars so hard that the squealing
OF the eagles disturbs the congrega-
ton. The man with the most money
is always on the lookout for chance
TO make more by pinching what he has.
File buys where he can buy the cheapest
and cares not the snap OF his fingers
IN, i,,,J elk, 1,
to be in little bit Of an industry that
is supported by home patronage. Then
he is a loud squealer for home loyalty.
but the catalogue house gets most of
his money on the quiet. The rich
tightwad Is the curse and blight OF
every. community. His family eats
the least meat, gets along on the least.
groceries. drives the hardest bargains
in clothing and either beat their way
In church and society or nay so little
as to always be contemptibly conspic-
uous. The rich tightwad pays the
lowest possible assessment to church,
lodge and public benefits and to char
ityf his name is unknown. He knows
he is spotted as cheap and mean. but
that dies not worry him, FOR he has
the money, and money is his little
god. He eats like a gourmand at a
free feast. but when he goes away
from home he seeks only the cheap
est restaurants and hotels If he
drinks at all he does so ION the SLY"
SO that he will run no risk of having
to "buy' for somebody else. No won
der he got rich and no wonder he
stays rich but he is welcome to his
money. He gets little or nothing out
of life and after he is dead the only
is his costly gravestone. paid for out
of his estate.
HOW TO KEEP THE Roy AT HOME
(Wallace's Farmer)
We have in mind now certain far
mer, good one too-hard- working,
Industrious, honest as the day is long
who owns a good farm, good hons.
and has made it by hard work. He has
not been reader, but a worker, an
observer: he takes no paper except
the county paper; has perhaps six or
possibly a dozen books in his home.
He put his boys to work as soon as
they were able. kept them at 1t, send
ing them to school after the corn was
in the crib, some weeks after school
had commenced, and taking. them out
of school as soon as there was work
to do in the spring. When they got
home from school at night he hal
chores for them to do, and there We're
chores before daylight In the morning
until school began.
These boys are growing up now, and
ft,O 30 la hot &c q g
they get their work done they strike
out for the village some two or three
miles away to spend their evenings.
The good man wonders at this. and
wants to know why 1t is that his boys
will not stay at home evenings.
Our heart goes out in sympa thy%to
this man, because he loves his boys,
has done his best to teach Their,
habits of industry and economy, and
he can not see why they do not like
to stay at home after their work is
finished. In all kindness we wish to
say to him that he has made a very
serious mistake in life. His boys
ought to be more to him than that
farm on which they have worked so
WELL and the live stock which they,
have helped him care for in years
past. He has, never understood his
boys nor realized that life from their
point Of view is entirely different
from his. He has made home solely
a place Of work, and not merely work
but drudgery.
We advise this good friend of ours
to have session with himself and
ascertain what can be done at this
late day to save his boys from tempta-
ton and his old age from needless
sorrow. We advise him to start in by
making home so pleasant that his
boys will find 1t more attractive than
any other place on earth. To do this
he must get in touch with them bs
interested I'M what interests them, and
learn to look at things from the boys