Part 24 (2/2)
Such rigid econoe, enables one to surprise the world with gifts even if he is poor In fact, the poor and the ate to ality enables theround
Butfrom economy The miserly is the miserable man, who hoards money from a love of it A miser who spends a cent upon himself where another would spend a quarter does it from parsimony, which is a subordinate characteristic of avarice
Of this the following is an illustration: ”True, I should like some soup, but I have no appetite for theOstervalde; ”what is to become of that? It will be a sad waste” And so the rich Paris banker would not let his servant buy meat for broth
A writer on political econo froh would shut the gate, but as the latch would not hold it, it would swing open with every breeze One day a pig ran out into the woods Every one on the farardener ju, and sprained his ankle so badly as to be confined to his bed for teeks When the cook returned, she found that her linen, left to dry at the fire, was all badly scorched The dairymaid in her excite of a colt The gardener lost several hours of valuable time Yet a new latch would not have cost five cents
Guy, the London bookseller, and afterward the founder of the great hospital, was a greatupon an old bench, and using his counter for a table, with a newspaper for a cloth He did not marry One day he was visited by ”Vulture”
Hopkins, another well-knowna candle ”To discuss your gardly econo Hopkins's business he blew out the light, saying, ”We can do that in the dark” ”Sir, you are my master in the art,” said the ”Vulture;” ”I need ask no further I see where your secret lies”
Yet that kind of econoardly is better than the extravagance that laughs at it Either, when carried to excess, is not only apt to causefor a rainy day,” said a gentle afterwards he asked Patrick howat all,” was the reply; ”I did as you bid me, but it rained very hard yesterday, and it all went--in drink”
”Wealth, apopulations”
But nowhere and at no period were these contraststhan in I lest they should be starved by the delay of an Alexandrian corn-shi+p, while the upper classes were squandering fortunes at a single banquet, drinking out of myrrhine and jeweled vases worth hundreds of pounds, and feasting on the brains of peacocks and the tongues of nightingales As a consequence, disease was rife, men were short-lived At this time the dress of Roman ladies displayed an unheard-of splendor The elder Pliny tells us that he himself saw Lollia Paulina dressed for a betrothal feast in a robe entirely covered with pearls and emeralds, which had cost 40,000,000 sesterces, and which was known to be less costly than soance, ostentation, impurity, rioted in the heart of a society which knew of no other means by which to break the uish of its despair
The expense ridiculously bestowed on the Roman feasts passes all belief
Suetonius iven to Vitellius by his brother, in which, a other articles, there were two thousand of the choicest fishes, seven thousand of the most delicate birds, and one dish, frois or shi+eld of Minerva It was filled chiefly with the liver of the scari, a delicate species of fish, the brains of pheasants and peacocks, and the tongues of parrots, considered desirable chiefly because of their great cost
”I hope that there will not be another sale,” exclaimed Horace Walpole, ”for I have not an inch of rooht an old door-plate with ”Thoht co what you don't need because it is cheap encourages extravagance ”Many have been ruined by buying good pennyworths”
”Where there is no prudence,” said Dr Johnson, ”there is no virtue”
The eccentric John Randolph once sprang from his seat in the House of Representatives, and exclai voice, ”Mr Speaker, I have found it” And then, in the stillness which followed this strange outburst, he added, ”I have found the Philosopher's Stone: it is _Pay as you go_”
Many a young n he is on the highway to fortune, and he begins to live on a scale as though there was no possible chance of failure; as though he were already beyond the danger point Unfortunately Congress can pass no law that will re beyond one's means
”The prosperity of fools shall destroy them” ”However easy it may be toin the world to keep it” Money often makes the mare--run aith you
Very few men kno to use money properly They can earn it, lavish it, hoard it, waste it, but to deal with it _wisely_, as a means to an end, is an education difficult of acquirelasshad been constructed an artist picked up the discarded fragments and made one of the most exquisite s in Europe for another cathedral So one boy will pick up a splendid education out of the odds and ends of tiain a fortune by saving what others waste
It has becoue that a debt on a church or a house or a fir to develop character
When the youngin his e is to be shunned like the cholera, and that to owe a dollar that you cannot pay, unless overtaken by , then he is bound in soa burden upon his friends or the state
To do your best you must own every bit of yourself If you are in debt, part of you belongs to your creditors Nothing but actual sin is so paralyzing to a young e” whichmen throay carelessly, or worse, would often fors of the people of the United States, rich and poor, old and young, e of less than fifty cents a day But it is by econoet his start in business
The man without a penny is practically helpless, from a business point of view, except so far as he can immediately utilize his powers of body and mind Besides, when a oodness surviving self-respect and the loss of public esteeoes as it coine that twenty years and twenty shi+llings can never be spent”