The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1910-07-16
SAVING
MONEY

mo, don't save money because
like to-" protested the girl with the
soft hair, tearfully. IT'S horrid OF
| you to say So But should think II
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 II you spend every cent you
get, and yet you sit there and tell me
you are saving money!"
"Why-why, II ! save something
every week, In 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.
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 If
your bourgeois ancestry conpels you
to-" she began afresh, 'Nut 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 competency. II
there is one calamity / pray may
never befall me II 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 a
break
This thing of having just enough
money SO that you never feel free
to indulge yourself in a real extrav-
agance could never appeal to me-"
she declared. II 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
pie income. In the winter the whole
family pinched consSientiously 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-
Vile"
Just like our cousins on the North
Shore" sighed the girl with the soft
hair.
continued the mutinous girl, warming
to her subject "The necessity of ap-
pearing at a 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 q gingham
dress to her name. And the pity of Il
10 that Betty was no snob; just .
nice, lively girl with all the normal
girls tastes and l0ngings for fun. Pow
erty had done II, 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
~ you don't mean that It wouldn't be
nice to have plenty of money"
Certainly not" agreed her friend.
But that 10 precisely what money
that has been saved up penny by pen
ny never gets to be-, II you we're sa-
wing to 60 to Europe next summer
and spend every cent you have in the
4 world, ! shouldn't say word That's
not saving; that's just postponed ex-
\ trayagance-thew worst kind. For think
Of all the good times you might be
having while you were screwing that
hoard out Of your poor little pittance."
The stormy girl looked triumphant
ly at the soft girl. She hadn't planned
such neat climax herself. "Pittance"
was rather good, she believed. Re-
fecting upon it, she could almost shed
tears over the soft girls poverty
stricken state.
But the soft girl stiffened. "Oh,
WELL Connie" she murmured, Il don't
think you would call 1t pittance, you
know. ! can always afford hats
There was just the softest emphasis
on the pronoun.
The stormy girl flushed and began
to gather up her belongings Her own
hat. as II happened, was the visible
result Of subtracting bargain in
etchings from the vanishing fraction
Of her allowance. But she was not ST.
fenced.
I'm sure you see what l mean" she
maintained as she took virtuous pos.
session OF the check. IF can be
wildly, wonderfully wealthy. so that
I need never count the cost, all right
But II you ask me to be comfortably
wellto-do at the expense of endless
thought about the matter and inces
SAINT prudent economies. ! shall nat
iy refuse. Let US be poor, but free!