Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-02-07

| axle grease; it took some little wear
| out of the harness anil the wagon;
| on one occasion it resulted in the loss
Of fifty cent whip; on another in
the freezing Of two fingers so badly
that he couldn't milk and he'd to hire
a neighbor to do it for him nearly
| three weeks.
Yet he keeps on, wasting time and
| harness leather and wagon tires and
! some other things by tho dollars
| worth, TO save ten cents in money
| Keeps on and always will keep on, be-
| cause his hobby is saving money.
That's his sole idea Of economy.
Then there is the even more numer-
| Gus class whose members seem to
| hold the notion that economy means
going without what one needs now, in
| order to get things one may neee,
some other time. This is sacrificing
| a certainty to insure against a con-
! tinsenCy. II is starving the bird in
| hand, 50 as to save crun7bs for some
| other bird which may possibly fly into
\ some other bush, some other time. It's
| saving q doctors bill when you have
the influenza, in order to pay the I'M
| dertaker, after you're dead of the re-
/ sulting pneumonia!
Again, ! protest in advance against
! nis-readirg of this. My contention
| out that which one needs" how.
merely in order to save the price for
| somGthing one may need" later on. 7
! do not criticize those VINO deny them
/ selves some pleasure or some gew-
gaw or the qualification of some mere
whin. in order to insure the obtain
| ing Of some necessity whose demand is
| reasonably u be expected in the flu
ture. Nor do ] criticize the foresight
| which seeks to prepare for the inc
vitahle rainy day by maitng hay
| while the sun shines. There's a wide
| difference between ones wants and
ones needs. Most of us want the
moon-with q ring round IT, and a
| string tied t) the ring. But we don't
any Of us actually need it in our back
yards. II it often laudable economy
10 go without that which one merely
wants. in order to lay hg the where
w!thal TO secure that which he is fair
ly certain he will soreiy need, later
on.
But I know people. and SO, proba
bly, do you, who sacrifice imperative
needs: 70 without things they them
selves class as "necessaries' of life.
not because they haven the money
but IN order TO save the money; anG
who will call this economy.
What is economy, anyway" The die
tcnary definition of it as applied t.
private affairs is simple enough. Web
ster says it is Thrifty ami fruga
housekeeping; management without
loss or waste; frugaiitv IN expendi-
ture; prudence and disposition t,
save" And then he pvoceeSs to not,
the distinctions between Economy
Frug2lity and Parsimony rs follows:
Economy avoids all waste and ex-
travagance," and applies money to the
best ADVANTAGE; Frugal1ty cuts off al
tndulgenCes and proceeds on a syster
Iof rigid and habitual saving; Par
| simOny is fruEalty carried to an ey-
r~ene, involving n1eanness OF spiri
ana a sordid mode of living" Also a:
a further enlightenment NJ quotes thi!
= from the wise Arbuth4ot "The
8 boundaries of virtue are invisihl,
lines. il is impossible II march III
close to the frontiers OF frugality with
/ out entering the territories of parsi.
mony"
Don't YOU see7 Frugality cuts on
all mere comforts to save money; par.
simonT cuts off everything hut tn,
meresL animal necessities to save
money; but economy. while avoidin
waste and extravaganza" does no
merely save money, bat apple:
| money 10 the best advantage" Now
this distinction is by no means ar
Invisible nor an "indivisihle" line
II IS as plain as a pikestaff or as the
. nose on a mans face.
Economy is always a virtue; par.
siTnony is always vice: iii between
stands frugaiity, which may toucl
virtue or may touch frUeality ac-
corting to the way it is headed and
the system it employs.
: Some years ago 7 hal an offer for
some standing pin. timber I figure,
up that If I sold the pine and put tn.
I. money into the savings bank it wouIt
earn me four per cent. per annun1. II
J saved the pine and let it grow it would
double it, measurements in ten wears
fh!S meant ten per cent pcr annun
refused the offer. Instead I boueb-
some more Young pine witch I had q
chah"e 10 get at bargain, that is. b.
Applying money at which seemed thu
gbest advantage, to Use Wehster's
wording.
Lately, Two been asked if would
consider an offer OF little over three
tunes the other one for my D,ne. This
Sean.S 10 me to illustrate the con+en-
tion that it is sometimes. true econ
cmy not to save money but to spend
| II. II II is spent wisely and for use-
full purposes. that is.
. Il is not economy 70 buv what on,
| doesn't need. merely because il is cheap
nor on the other hand is il 1rue ecor
> omy to go without that which one
needs merely to save tho Drice foT
'onetning one may perhaps need sorne
time. A pleasure is L pleasure. and
may well be sacrificed for the sake NJ
some foreseen or unprecedented necess1-
~. But need is need. row as truly
as year henle. While Darsinony
1
the hope of finding some wav also f.
get along without it. later on. true
economy would balance the pressure
OF the present demand against the
probable weight of the future contin
gency and then-"apply its money f.
the best advantage"
I Perhaps, when you come to thinL
it over judicially, youth agree with ms
that the practice of real economy isn't
after all, a wholly simple function. II
/ is as Numerically opposed to parsi-
mony as it is to extravaganza. Yet il
involves great deal more than mere
frugality.
a philosopher once remarked that il
| took a mighty smart man to tell tbe
truth, Meaning thereby that many
who are DESTROYS Of speaking ONLY the
truth don't do it because they lack
the shrewdness and acumen to distin.
guish the truth among the fog-banks
Of error in which it is too offer
| shrouded.
Similarly, I, who am not a phi1oso.
pher but just an everyday hayseed. am
moved 70 opine that too many who
sincerely want to be economical never
theless are not, simply because they
don't understand what economy is
They mix it up with something else
and sometimes think they are being
economical when they are really being
either mean or stingy.'
| If IL really takes a smart r,,n :,