Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-17
Looker-On In Iona

! GU WSSieTHeTS SpeHQ your NlOHes
in driblets. Fool away your nickels
and dimes said a down east Yankee.
We of the east are close, mean and
stingy, SO you say. The mechanic Of
/ tue east earning SO day buys his beer
! by the dozen bottles the westerner
frequents the saloon. pays cents for
a glass of suds and treats all the buns
and loafers present We buy a cents
worth of butter at delicatassen store.
! , cents worth of chicken, three biscuits
and an orange for cents make
! good lunch out of it and pay cents
for the whole business. You pay 20
cents for a lunch, eat one quarter of
i il and leave the rest on the table. We
get comfortably off by saving the pen
MES and you are just where you start
at p years of age A young man clerk
ing in a store in the east for $50
month, saves 800 in a year. In the
: same kind OF business out west a clerk
thinks he is doing well if he breaks
even. If he has sickness or loses his
Job he runs in debt
And the plain spoken Yankee was
nearly right in his statements The
writer knows OF men earning $1,000 a
YEAR who spend 800 a year in street
car fare. This too when their health
would De better if they walked to and
from their homes to the store. Worse
than tina, their children that play ball
before and after school every day and
ali day Saturday, are given nickels to
roe III the street cars six or eight
DOCKS. Men earning 500 a year fire.
QuentlJ- spend $50 to SIS a year hv all
LOWING their family 10 regularly pa
tron.ze the and 10 cent moving pic
tuTe SHOWS. Not SO long ago in Mar
ShalltoWn men earning sl2 a week paid
beer bills of 50 TO 50 week. There's
one man Of the writer's acquaintance
that spends dollar month on chew
ing gum and his income is less than a
thousand dollars a year. Cigars cost
some men % cents a day. men with
sioo month income: SIS a year for
cigar bii!s. Billiards and pool cost
many a Sa!aried man tenth of his in
come. Al this is and 10 cent spead-
ing OF money. 1t doesn't come under
me mead Of extravaganza like owning
an automobile. attending high priced
entertainments, playing poker with
Inc limit off or trying to keep up ap-
pearences on 800 month. aping in
manner or style of living those of an
income OF $1,000 to $4,000 a wear
WHAT'S here mentioned is TO make good
the Yankees statement concerning the
nickles and dimes.
u Is curious. but the average western
man or woman is ashamed 10 save
nickles and dimes. Such persons n,e-
Ter TO go thru life living from hand
70 mouth. bringing up families the same
way, owing bills everywhere. generally
paying what they ow-some t,mes al.
ways hard up. rather than TO have some
one know they were Saving" "close"
man or "stingy" Its amusing 70
watch some of these people paving car
fare for their FRIENDS along with them
in the same car It's just as funny 70
see how some of them always manage
to let the other fellow pay. We have
all Of US large amount of false pride
in this nickle and dime business It
doesn't fool the public or anyone else
for the store clerk earning so week
20 treat the crowd to three for a o,ar-
ter cigars.
Yes, there rs another side TO it. .'One
can get rich by going without every
thing" Omit carfare f0-cen, moving
picture shows. ice cream. cigars, bill
lizards, pool, beer and chewing gum.
Pinch every penny. give nothing to the
church. never send flowers to sick
friends. chip in nothing when the poor
mans COW dies. never pay laundry bills,
black your own shoes shave yourself
and have you wife cut your hair. and
you get clipper for the boys heads.
go without meat becauee its unhealthy
don't buy cream, milk is just as good,
have weekly instead of daily papers.
buy so suits of clothes and have your
wife trim her own bonnets. and let the
children go to school looking like scare
crows. oh yes. one can get rich by
doing or not doing all of these things.
But does it pay? On the other hand
does it pay to fool away 800 or 5000
a year away in nickels and dimes.
Spending them for something that
shows nothing fer at the end Of the
year All this is not to tell your
neighbor how to spend his money. It's
yours You earn it frequently by hard
knocks. The question raised here, are
YOU getting value received for 1000
nickels or 1000 dimes you spend every
3s5 days?
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