Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-11-03

TALKS ON. THRIFT.
THRIFT IN LITTLE THINGS.

] Don't take the top sheet is the
 order issued by large insurance
 company to it's employees when taking l stationery from the stock room. The
 reason is, the top sheet is soiled and
 dusty and must be thrown away, only 1 to leave another top sheet to become
 soiled and wasted.
 Over the electric button in a large
 hotel is the request: 'We would ap-
 preciate the favor if you will turn out i 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 days use. Some hotels
 have the heavy and costly counter panes laundered every day, while others have the maids turn the covers 1 back each night to avoid soiling. The reason for these small econo- 1 mics is not niggardliness, but good l management. Of what use is a large
 cake of soap when small one sal- swers the same purpose? Why burn the light when you are out of a IOOlI. Why SOll CApClloifC when a little care would prevent? If every employe in a large office
 wastes but one sheet of paper day,
 and every guest burns hours of need- less light, the yearly cost is cnor- nous. If hotel can save but cent a room a day on soap, it means a yearly saving of $1,o0O in a hotel with 300 rooms. If every bundle that goes out of department store has half a cents worth of needless paper and twine, the loss is a large item in the firms annual profit and loss ac- count.
 A certain restaurant found that it
 cost $30,000 a year to supply bread
 and butter gratis, and by charging
 but ten cents for this service turned
 loss of $30,000 into a profit of $5C,-
 900. That is good management, how
 ever much we may grumble at the ten-cent tax.
 Success in business, success in
 life, is a matter of applying thrift
 principles to little things. We too often forget that dimes make dollars.
 And as waste counts up fast, so sav-
 ings grow apace. If you were allow
 ed to go over the books of any sav-
 ings bank you would find hundreds of accounts that show steady, system
 atic saving. It may be but dollar
 or two week, but in the, long run it
 mounts up. A certain young lawyer
 in New York who was once a pack
 peddler made it a steady habit when
 boy to save fifty cents weekly, and
 he was as regular as the clock. 1t
 was the beginning of a successful ca reer. Another young man, about to
 be married, saved five dollars a week
 for two years out of a salary of fir teen dollars and never missed week.
 The results of such systematic
 work will surprise even yourself You
 know that fifty times two make hun dred, but if you apply the principal to bank account, you are bound to believe it. Little leaks can sink a ship as we'll as great hole in the bow, and do it with less confusion. Little savings can make you rich as we'll as a great strike. The reason
 so many people are poor is simply
 because they cannot stop the little
 leaks They spend little sums all the time, and in the multitude of lit tie spending reach total that proves disastrous. Thrift in little things will
 make you thrifty in big ones; but you ! never can have the big things unless you give heed to the little ones. Watch yourself for few days and see how your money gets away from you. You will sunrise even yourself.