The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-01
FIRST Of MONTH
WITH GOODFELLOW
He Gives Little Dissertation on the
Rights and Wrongs of the Credit
System and Pay Day
Habit.

Talk about your strenuous weeks"
sighed MIR. A Good Fellow, as he
reached for the swinging lighter in
the cigar store and picked out a soft
place on the counter to lean against.
this one just past has certainly been
q ScOrcher for me. Why? Why, look
here! Do you mean to tell me. man
you can look me straight in the face
and ask such a question?
Don't you ever have any bills to
settle on the first of the month? When
it gets to the end of the month don't
you have that sort of Sherlock Holmes
feeling? And when the morning of the
first daWnS, don't you mentally don
Sack-clOth and ashes and raise your
voice in lamentations-that you lust
can't settle a little bit on every last
creditor and stave them off for another
month? You don't? Come here! Let
me feel you and see if you are real!
Say, on the level, l wish you'd put
me next to how you do it. Economy?
Management? Saving up for a rainy
day? AW, don't pass me a lot of con
like that know all those roads to
Easy street-but the thing l want to
know is how you economic, how you
manage, and how you save up for a
rainy day. Tell it to me, and | won't
pass it by.
Did you ever stop to think of the
fool stunts a man does during the
month. just because somebody thinks
he's good for the cash? You can't fig
ure it out in your own case you say?
Well, then, let me dope It out for you
in mine. There's your smokes, for
example. Will you tell me exactly
why a man likes to run a bill at
cigar store, and then try to settle it
all in lump instoa d of paying as he
goes-and doing without when he
hasn't got the price? I'm not pnctic-
ing what 1 preach but, take it from
me, it ought to be just as easy to pay
as you go-and whole lot easier when
the first of the month comes. without
a big smoke bill staring you in the
face
Funny about this first of-the-
month business, amt it? I'm glad to see
ii come for it means drawing my
monthly draw-down from the office.
But | dread it as a day of battle MUIR
der and sudden death You see, DO, /
get my money then, but | can't even
get in a breath between the time | say
How de-dO to it and Good by Hon
est, it goes that fast 1t doesn't even
hesitate. And then you feel ike
somebody had handed you a gold brick
Here you've been working hard al
month for something you call your sail
ary-a1d then you get it-and then you
hand it right over for the things you
have left undOne that you ought 10
have done in the past thirty days. II
reminds one of the way a man goes
after a woman when he wants to mar
ry her. He is like a fellow chasing
n ha no
after the car, catches it, and then
well, he's got it. l get my salary, ana
then / get whole lot of bills. Avn
what's the use!
And did you ever think of the thOIe
sand and one double jointed, certiheu,
cure-or- your money-back devices that
a fellow is told make the road to
big, fat bank account a lovers lane
streWn with roses? Don't draw an
your salary, says one. The minute
you get it, says another, call for the
police and make them take your collat-
eral for any old charge you can bull
doZe them into putting against you
Start a subscription for the purchase
of feather boas for the South Sea ISL
anders, someone else suggests, and SKIP
to Honduras with the rake-of. Anu
so it goes. Come to the bottom or IT,
only sure-cure way of doing the TRICK
putting all his salary in the bank
and living off the pleasant anticlpa-
tons of what he would have some gay
minus that little twenty-nine Million
fine for bates.
I've tried every new-fangled meth
cd ever advertised-and the first Oh
the month is just. as much of XIII
joy as before 1 started. How do you
do it? I've been looking for a chap
like you to put me wise as to now "
keep ahead of the game for man!
moons. Come on, loosen up!
What? You-you give 1t TO YOU
Wife! Say, now, don't get gay WIN
-aw, what's the usel Ferget IL.
Whatn you have? It's on me lhi'
trip"