The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-06-22
As TO LOSING MONEY.
A Case Showing the Importance Ten
Dollar Bill May Reach.

Doaar Bill May Reach.
"To some men," said a man now Of
Rmplest means, "the loss Of $4,000
might be q joke, and then to some the
loss Of a ten dollar bill might be
tragedy.
"Poor? Why, we were SO poor that
we had to count every cent, every PEN
ny. Not that we were miserable. We
were very far from that AS a matter
Of fact, we were happy, but we GER
tainly did have all the time to sail
very close to the wind
"There were four of us-wife, two
children and myself bless you,
how we did have to figure and scrimp
to make both ends meet. I've seen
the time, many time, when a nickel
was Of great Importance to us, when
1t was the last cent for carfare. I
often think what blessing 1t was
that we were none Of us ever sick;
that nothing ever happened to us. /
don't know what we'd done II there
had.
"I was going to tell you what 1t
might be to some folks to lose ten
dollar bill.
'sTen dollars was the amount Of our
monthly rent, and whatever else we
did we always saved out Of my weeks
pay the weekly proportion OF the ren1
to have it ready when it was due. I
always used to get ten dollar bill in
my pay envelope, and when it came to
the last Saturday in the month we just
used to take the ten dollar bill out OF
the envelope to pay the rent with, and
then we had the amount we'd saved
out of three weeks to go on for cur
rent expenses.
well, one last Saturday that hap
pened to come three days before the
end of the mouth we took the ten doh
lar bill out of the envelope as usual
for the rent and as usual my wife put
It away-she always looked after the
nnances-and there we were all COM
Portable and happy, with the next
months rent al ready, and then on
the last day Of the month, when she
went to get it out to have 1T handy
when the landlord came she couldn't
find it,
@If that wasn't a tragedy l don't
know a tragedy when I meet IT. ]
don't suppose took It quite so hard as
she did, and ia have shown it as fit-
tie as could anyway on her account,
but to her it was nothing less than
calamity.
"When the children had gone to bed
we tore the house apart We looked
and looked and looked into every nook
and corner over and over again, but
that ten dollar bill, with all that II
meant to us-and l doubt If you can
| imagine how much it did mean-was
gone. That was the first thing we had
| on our minds when we woke up In the
morning, and gloomy enough for uf
| that morning was And then when
was eating my breakfast In our mod
| est dining room she looked in at the
door from the kitchen, and I've found
| itr she said, and so she had, JUS
where three days before she had hid
den it away, and so was our grea
gloom changed to joy-to joy with
large, large ].
Eyes, SIR We got more now, by con
siderable, and now she has what sh'
wants; now she doesn't have to skimp
In these days / take her home myself
now and then ten dollar bouquet
We can afford It. But I never shall
forget as long as I live how we fell
when we thought we'd lost that tel
dollar bin or the Joy that came to d
when we found II, for, you see, how
loss strikes you depends so much OF
how much you've got."-New Yor
j Sun.