The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-11-14
TALKS ON THRIFT.
THRIFT IN LITTLE THINGS.

THRIFT IN LITTLE THINGS.
Don't take the top sheet" is the or
der issued by a large insurance COM
pany to its employees when taking
stationery from the stock room. The
reason is, the top sheet is soiled and |
dusty and must be thrown away, only
to leave another top sheet to become
soiled and wasted.
Over the electric button in a large
hotel is the request: I'VE would ap-
preciate the favor if you will turn out
the light when leaving the room"
Some hotels furnish a large cake of
soap for each room daily, whether the
guest changes or not, the bulk of
which is wasted, while other hotels
furnish a small cake just large enough
for a days use Some hotels have the
heavy and costly counterpanes laun-
dered every day, while others have
the maids turn the covers back each
night to avoid soiling
The reason for these small econo-
mics is not nlggardlness, but good
management. OF what use is a large
cake of soap when a small one ans
wers the same purpose? Why burn
the light when you are out of room?
Why soil expensive linen when lit
tie care would prevent?
If every employee in a large office
wastes but one sheet of paper a day,
and every guest burns hours of need
less light, the yearly cost is enormous.
If a hotel can save but a cent room
day on soap, it means a yearly saw
ing of 81 800 in hotel with 500 rooms.
If every bundle that goes out of a de-
partment store has half a cents
worth of needless paper and Irvine, the
loss is a large item in the firms an
nual profit and loss account.
A certain restaurant found that it
cost 100000 a year to supply bread and
butter gratis, and by charging but ten
cents for this service turned loss of
100000 into profit of $1,000. That
is good management, however much
we may grumble at the ten-cent tax
Success in business, success in life
is matter of applying thrift princi-
pies to little things. We too often for
get that dimes make dollars. And as
waste counts up fast, so savings grow
apace. If you were allowed to go over
the books of any savings bank you
would find hundreds of accounts that
show steady, systematic saving. II
may be but dollar or two week, but
in the long run it mounts up. A GER
tain young lawyer in New York who
was once a pack peddler made it {
steady habit when a boy to save fifty
cents weekly, and he was as regular
as the clock. 1t was the beginning O
a successful career. Another younl
man, about to be married, saved fiv'
dollars a week for two years out of (;
> salary of fifteen dollars and neve
missed a week
. The results of such systematic worl
. will surprise even yourself. You knoN
that fifty times two make a hundred
but If you apply the principle to
: hank account. you are bound to believ
1t. Little leaks can sink a ship as we
= as great hole in the bow, and do
with less confusion. Little saving
: can make you rich as well as a grea
e strike. The reason so many peopl
i are poor is simply because they can
s not stop the little leaks. They spen
= little sums all the time, and in tn
multitude of little spendings reach
= total that proves disastrous. Thrift /
e little things will make you thrifty !
d big ones; but you never can have tn
3. big things unless you give heed to tn
- little ones. Watch yourself for a fe
n days and see how your money get
1. away from you. You will surpris
even yourself.