The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1917-03-09
keep OF vF Debt
# You Ale IL poIt Ycu Afe a F!
Glued to the ~ Ha?2r.
LITTLE CHANCE TO IS
The More You Struggle tn:
You Stick-Soon Your C3L'.
Gone and You Are a Dead 2,
Wise and Shun That Fly Pager,


Gone and You Are a Dead =,
Wise and Shun That Fly Pager,
More than half the people arc in dt
that IL TO say, they ale li\ ms bclo
their means or they are spending ever.
cent.
And the man who is spending every
cent he gets is actually in debt and
running i'm debt, for he is running in
debt to his Old age, when he won't he
able to make and won't be able to
spend and when the spending OF today
means debt later.
Those that are In debt know what
about 1t.
First you owe $50 If you are little
manor $4,000 If you are big man.
And then you owe $100-or 100000
II you are big.
For awhile you struggle and plan.
You are going to pay it off soon. 1t
10 n good thing to use 20. +. M.'-that
ls to say, other peoples money-in the
effort to get ahead.
You tell yourself that all the big
men have used their credit and bor-
rowed and gone ahead rapidly.
II all sounds very nice and plausible.
But remember that you keep getting
In deeper
The fly lights on the fly paper, per
haps with only one leg at first. He
SAYS this Is nothing and puts down the
other leg to push himself off.
And then he Is stuck fast.
And then he says to himself, IL Will
fly away from this fly paper" so he be
gins Tapping his wings. And both Of
his wings stick to the paper.
There he is with his feet stuck and
his wings stuck and only his head free
That fly feels about as independent
and hearty rs you do If you are In debt
And he says: 81 can get off Of this pa
per easily enough when l get ready.
| I'll just put my head down and push
myself off"
He buZZes for awhile. Then he puts
his head down on the fly paper to push
himself Off
| upll HIS utdu elhhS NSht' iiV bS-
| gins To choke.
by and 10y he rolls over on his side,
| he sinks into the sticky surtace-a and
| there is another dead iy.
| So il is with men IN debt. So II will
be with You if you stay In debt.
The only hope for the fly the moment
he feels one foot on tie fly paper Is to
use both wings aud fly away, not put
ting in the other foot, dying Off as
| quickly as he can.
And billion times wiser and better
is the occasional rare fly who sees the
other flies sticking to the Ay paper and
says. IL don't like the lock Of those
tlies; I'll stay away from them"
Look at the people In debt. See their
worry. See the anxiety of the mother
reflected In the children.
See the lack of standing, the extrava
gance and the poverty mixed together.
You can't mistake the human 6y
stuck on the fly paper Of debt.
Since you cannot mistake him why
not keep away from that fly paperi
Debt makes everything worthless.
II you owe $1,000 II seems rathe
foolish to save ten or twenty.
You feel that you might as wei
spend IL; It won't make any difference
And so II goes If you owe $1,000
And then 1t isn't worth while 90 saw,
twenty or forty.
And you become a failure. You pu
down your feet and then your wing
and then your head, which Is ambition
and by and by you roll over and yo
: are dead fly.
A Keep out OF dcbt.-From the Ne,
2 York Evening Journal.
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