The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-06-23

.fWhen things look bluest,h girl said
to me the other day, at always cheers
me up moro than anything else in the
world to go out and waste money that
can't afford TO spend"
Eyes" answered, land then after it's
gone YOU have TO look the cold, gray
truth In the face, thar yoti've made a
goose of yourself and you've got to begin
to stint to save up that very money you
waspd?'
Il don't care" returned the girl, 'it
helps the mood to pass and l don't mind
saving when I'm in a cheerful mood"
You mean I protested, when you
are frightened over what you've done.
It's the effort trying to justify ones self
TO ones self that brings back the ball
ance that makes you resigned to doing
without everything until you catch up
again.
Which recalls the story of the old
Colonel, who, being arraigned by his sem
sible young granddaughter over the
money he was spending, replied:
MY child, l haven't spent dollar that
belonged to me in years
After that confession of course he was
in her power; she didn't let him spend
any more money.
He had a vague idea that one of these
days he was gollSg to be mentioned as
beneficiary in some unknown relatives
will to the amount of his Indebtedness.
but this generation knows better.
Having things charged is the most
tantalizing and alluring situation in the
world.
The fuse burns out finally; the maya
zine of debt blows the home off of the
face of the earth.
Save something out of your earnings"
a witty photographer reports a certain
Croesus as saying, even If 1t is only a
few millions each year"
Good advice-even if most of us DO have
| to reduce the figures at least two billion
| times before we can get them within our
| financial circle.
It's profitable idea that prompts a
woman to put by the dollars that she
would waste on something that she
doesn't particularly want, to save up to
get something she DOES want
Somebody has cleverly said that "a
AIiser is only a Spendthrift reformed
There may be AN element of truth in
this assertion: certain Vt is that the
Spendthrlft is BORN-seldom MADE by
circumstances.
Some of us In our cradles II we couldn't
have wasted money any other way, would
have swallowed it to get rid of it.
1t burns our fingers.
We can't rest with money In our purse;
we MUST spend it--and spend it QUICK;
no matter what for, just so We spend it.
Such a person with mind headed in an
other direction would make perfectly
good Miser for 1t is even greater de-
light. the ones who know about saving
aver. to SAVE money than to SPEND it,
Hetty Green advises all women to In
vest their savings in real estate, and this
coming from the worlds greatest femin-
Inc financier means something.
In real estate, the lady says, one has
something to show for ones money.
There are so many possibilities In land.
Land isSthe foundation for a home 10
begin with, and If You have a nice piece
OF real estate it is easy enough somehow
to get a house put on it. and once you
have "a house you have the nucleus of a
home that may become more valuable
with every sprig and vine you put upon
It.
Some men and women are born with the
proper reverence for money: they can
take a dollar and BY mysterious juggling
with it in the market place make il multi
ply even as the Mango tree grows under
the East Indians handkerchief.
Most of us have read with great in
terest the story OF the girl who started
with a nickel which she made picking
blackberries.
This she invested in g lead pencil: the
next hear of her she is writing little
stories.' from the profits of which she
bought few sweet potatoes and rented
a little piece OF land.
Whether IL was SIS she cleared the first
year or 500 isn't a matter of great mo-
ment, il 1t hadn't been but % cents we
feel sure she would haye invested il ju-