The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-04-25
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SAVING
MONEY

! |
NO don't save money because |
like to- protested TIE girl with the
soft lair learfuiIy lts horrid Of
you 70 sac co But should think 1t
very wrong not to save money
What Is ycur idea?' stormed the
mutinous girl hrandishing her celery
heaIt threatening Y. sHere you are.
with Mst.ahaup enough to live on
happily If you spend every cent you
get, and yet You sit there and tell me
you are saving money!"
tsWhy-why. II save something
every week. N time shall have
enough toto invest Capital, you
know. they call it. Why, Connie Bar
| ton, everybody knows it's the thing
{ to do,'' she finished, breathlessly Il
/ The girl with the stormy eye. look
ed at her witheringly Everybody
other name IL Goose she remarked
drylys She bit into an olive savagely
Save your allowance by all means Y
your bourgeois ancestry con,psls YOU
TO-" she began afresh, but donl
preach that doctrine to me know wha
I'm about. I'm not taking everybody's
word. I'm using my eyes, And Ecap
assure you that it Is no part Of my
/ plan to acquire competency. II
there is one calamity j pray may
| never befail me Il Is to become com
fortably we'll or" 4
aGracious! Isn'tjthat being an an
archfst?'N whispered the girl with the
soft hair timid!y
The mutinuous girl guipsd her cho
colate and went on talking without 3
| break
This thing of having just enough
money so that you never feel free
to indulge, yourself in real extray
agance could never appeal to me,
| she declared ~ have seen far toe
| much Of It There were the Badgers
for instance. Betty Badger was thu
most hopelessly limited person as e
I
solely because her father had an am
Pile incomes In the winter the Who'll,
| family pinched conscientiously ant
i INTELLECTUALLY to support the big town.
house and servants and to meet the
narrowing expenditures for DRESSING
Betty's mother and Betty to appea
at stupid functions they couldn't at
| ford to miss, Their automobile al,
\ up so much that they couldn't affon
| an electric 'Phe opera drained Betty,
| allowance for the theater, so thai
Betty had to think twice about vaude
| Vile"
| just like. or cousins on the Norti
shore sighed the GIRL with the sofi
hair,
In sumner 1t was even worse,
| continued the mutlnotis girl, warming
! to her subject. THE necessity OF ap
| pearing alta couple of smart watering
places forbade the idea of an occa
sional jaunt across the lake or W
! INTO the pine woods with the rest 0
US. Lingerie dresses are so expensiv,
! that Betty never could afford to romi
| for an instant. Positively half tn
time that poor girl hadn't ginghan
dress to her name. And the rity OF =
is that Betty was no snob; just ss
| nice, lively girl with all the. norma
/ girfs tastes and longings for fun. poy
/ erty had done It, my dear: the grlnl
ing poverty Of the economical fichi'
/ 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 II wouldn't b.
nice to have plenty of money N
/ Certainly not" agreed her friend
But that is precisely what none!
that has been saved up penny by pen
! NY never gets to be II sou were 81
!, wing to go to Europe next suinIle
and spend every cent you have in tn
world, ! shouldn't say word That
i not saving; that's lust postponed es
trayagance+-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
iy at the soft girl She hadn't piannet
such a neat climax herself. "Pittance
was rather good. she believed. Re
fecting upon It. she could almost she'
tears over the soft girls poverty
i stricken state
j But the soft Girl stiHened "oh
well. Connie she murmured, Il don
think you would call It q. pittance, y9
know. | can always afford hatsf
There was inst the softest emphasl
on the pronoun Az
Il The stormy gil flushed and bega
| to gather up her belongings Her ow
hat. as II happened, was the yisibi
result Of subtracting . bargain 4
| etchings from the vanishing fractio
| Of her allowances, But she was not y
fenced NJ
I'm sure you see what ! mean sh
maintained as she took yirtuous pos
! session OF the check. III can b
| wildly, wonderfully wealthy. 30 tina