The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-10-18

for your fifth ice cream soda on a
hot day, thus using up at one fell
swoop your weeks allowance.
"'Boy,' Nathan would call, come
here! Whose boy are you? Oh. see,
it's little Stanley Wiggers! Stanley,
haven't you visited Saunders drug
store a good many times today?'
"'Y-y-yes, sir you would stammer
guiltily, as do all tipplers caught in
the act.
"'Boy' Nathan would say, shaking
his finger at you, do you realize that
you are throwing away a fortune-and
even if not fortune, certainly at least
a competence that would keep you
from the disgrace of the poorhouse in
your old age? Come here. Look at
these figures! One scent soda day
for 1865 days year equals the sum of
$1S.25! You've had five sodas today
that would be equal to the sum of
$91.25 year! Think of 1t! If instead
Of drinking the foolish stuff you would
save your money you would, by the
time you were twenty-one, with the
compound interest, be worth $87, 8O2.
O3!
"Very low in your mind at the
thought Of your iniquity, and simply
flabbergasted at Nathan's capacity fol
figures, you would stink over to the
park and sit under tree and moodily
watch the other boys flooding into
Saunders
''You felt that something was wrong
in Nathan's reasoning, but you couldn't
grasp it. Back in the depths of your
mind was the knowledge that you sim.
ply couldn't drink five sodas day for
365 days straight, anyhow, and you
couldn't possibly do it for eleven years
If you did for one. Yet you didn't dare
brace up to Nathan and tell him So
Suddenly you thought of a crusher!
You'd never have the money to buy
five a day forever and ever, even if
You wanted 'em! And you did have
. cents now! You leapcd to your feet,
resolutely banished the thought of the
$67.SO2.03 from your injured mind and,
sticking out your tongue in the direc.
ton of the figuring Nathan, ran
around the block to the side entrance
of Saunders drug store and in a few
seconds were deep in a luscious glass,
which cheered you up and enabled you
to forget Nathan.
HE stopped Mamie White one day
us she was starting up the stairs that
led to the new beauty emporium, over
which all the women were crazy. There
were SO many Cutlery fngernails in
town after that emporium opened that
the city council seriously considered
shutting off street illumination at
night. Nathan told Mamie that If she
would save and invest and let com.
pound the 50-cent pieces she was pour.
Ing into the manicure hopper she would
have money enough in ten years to
take a trip around the world or attend
grand opera all the rest Of her life.
1.-The figures upset Mamie so that
she went home and cried and got en-.
gagged to the wrong man because he
caught her crying and tried to console
her and nothing gets round a woman
more than consolation.
Il shall always lay Mamie Whites
divorce at the door of Nathan Fulgum
He absolutely spouted figures. He fig.
ured that if family saved the money
1t spent for beefsteak it could ride in
Limousine and build three-story
house and he figured that If men lie,
their whiskers grow and the barbe,
starve to death there would be no nov.
erty on earth.
in fact. he made such pest of him.
self telling everybody wholesome
truths which they didn't want to know
that finally somebody figured that II
Nathan Fulgum stopped figuring and
paid his bills everybody would be rich
anyhow-and so they ran him out Of
town. So you see"
Him" said the mans wife. 81 SCI
lots Of things! But you smoke tot
many cigars and you've got to stop!"
swell, mebbe sol" agreed her hus
band. "But I've got to get my smokes
In before they commander all the to
bacco fields to grow potatoes"