Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1910-03-17
SAVING
MONEY


mo, don't save money because
like to-" protested the girl with the |
soft hair. tearfully. tits horrid OF |
you to say So But l should think 1t |
very wrong not to save money"
What is your idea?" stormed the
mutinous girl. brandishing her celery |
heart threateningly. Here you are.
with Just about enough to live on
happily If you spend every cent you
get, and yet you sit there and tell me
you are saving money!"
"Why-why. If l save something
every week, in time shall have
enough toto invest. Capital, you
know, they call 1t. Why. Connie Bar
ton, everybody knows it's the thing
to do" she finished. breathlessly.
The girl with the stormy eyes look
ed at her witheringly. "Everybody's
other name is Goose" she remarked,
dryly. She bit into an olive savagely.
Save your allowance by all means II
your bourgeois ancestry compsls you
to-" she began afresh, "bat don't
preach that doctrine to me. know wha
I'm about. I'm not taking everybody's
word. I'm using my eyes. And can
assure you that 1t is no part OF my
plan to acquire a competency. II
there is one calamity l pray may
never befall me 1t is to become COM
fortably well off,"
Gracious! Isn't that being an an
archist?" whispered the girl with the
soft hair, timidly.
The mutinuous girl gulped her cho-
colate and went on talking without
break.
This thing of having just enough
money so that you never feel free
to indulge yourself in real extrav-
agance could never appeal to me-"
she declared. Il have seen far too
much of it. There were the Badgers,
for instance. Betty Badger was the
most hopelessly limited person as to
means ever encountered. This was
solely because her father had an am
Pile income In the winter the whole
family pinched conscientiously and
methodically to support the big town
house and servants and to meet the
narrowing expenditures for dressing
Bettys mother and Betty to appear
at stupid functions they couldn't af-
ford to miss Their automobile ate
UP so much that they couldn't afford
an electric. The opera drained Betty's
allowance for the theater, so that
Betty had to think twice about vaude-
ville."
Just like our cousins on the North
Shore" sighed the girl with the soft
hair.
I'm summer it was even worse.
continued the mutinous girl, warming
to her subject. The necessity of ap
pearing at couple of smart watering
| places forbade the idea of an occa'
sional jaunt across the lake or up
into the pine woods with the rest OF
us. Lingerie dresses are so expensive
that Betty never could afford to romp
for an instant. Positively half the
time that poor girl hadn't gingham
dress to her name. And the pity OF II
is that Betty was no snob; just q
nice, lively girl with all the normal
girls tastes and longings for fun. Pow
erty had done it, my dear; the grind
ing poverty of the economical rich!'
The girl with the soft hair was i'm
pressed, but not altogether convinced
But, Connie" she protested, sure
ly you don't mean that 1t wouldn't be
nice to have plenty of money"
Certainly not" agreed her friend
But that is precisely what money
that has been saved up penny by pen
ny never gets to be. II you were sa
wing to go to Europe next summer
and spend every cent you have in thu
world, shouldn't say word. That!
not saving; that's just postponed ex
travagance-the worst kind. For thinl
of all the good times you might b
having while you were screwing tina
hoard out of your poor little pittance.
The stormy girl looked triumphant
ly at the soft girl. She hadn't planne'
such a neat climax herself. 'Pittance
was rather good. she believed. Re
fiecting upon it, she could almost she'
tears over the soft girls poverty
stricken state.
But the soft girl stiffened. "Oh
well, Connie" she murmured, Il dom
think you would call it pittance, yol
know. can always afford hats
There was just the softest emphasi
on the pronoun.
The stormy girl flushed and begai
to gather up her belongings. Her owl
hat, as it happened, was the visibl
result Of subtracting bargain II
etchings from the vanishing fractio
Of her allowance. But she was not 8
fenced. 4
I'm sure you see what ! mean" sh
maintained as she took virtuous pos
session Of the check. 'If l can b
wildly, wonderfully wealthy, so this
need never count the cost, all righ
.. But If you ask me to be comfortabl
welI-to-do at the expense Of endles
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