WHY THEY ARE POOR.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 594, 16 August 1913, Page 2

WHY THEY ARE POOR.

(Orison Swctt Manlcn, in Success)

Their ideas are larger than their

purses. They think the world owes them a living. They do not keep account of their expenditures. They are easy dupes of schemers and promoters. They reverse the maxim—" Duty before pleasure." They have too many and too expensive amusements. They do not think it worth while to save their pennies. They have risked a competence in tlying to get rich quickly. They allow friends to impose upon their good nature and generosity. They try to do what others expect uf them, not what they can afford. The parents are economical. but the children have expensive ideas. They do not do to-day what they can possibly put on" until to-mor-

Tlicy do not thinC it worth while tn put contracts or agreements into v. ritimr.

They prefer to incur debt rather than to do work which they consider laneath them.

They do not dream that little mortgages on their homes can ever (urn them out of doors.

1 hey have endorsed their friends-ante-i or guaranteed payment just for accommodation.

'i hey risk all their eggs in one I as':et when they are not in a position to watch or control it. Th y think it will be time enough to begin to save for a rainy day when the rainy day comes. The head of the house is a good man. but he has not learned to do I'usine.ss in a businesslike way. The only thing the daughters acmiiplish is to develop fondness for -■mart clothes and expensive jewellciw.

They do not realise that one expensive habit may introduce them in ;i whole family of extravagant habits. They do not know that giving a iiili power-of-attorney to an agent II- lawyer puts their property at hid merry. en a CIOO income they try to .ompete in appearance with a \L'."<tM) i year neighbour. They subscribe for everything that [ones along—organs, lightning-rods, subscription books, bric-a-brac—any-thing that they can pay for on the .nstalment plan. They have not been able to make much in the business they understand best, but have thought they could make a fortune by investing in something they know nothing; about. An old Irish woman was looking over a country church in company with two friends who, having sprung from the neiL:-l>i>oiirhood, knew personally the histories and even individual memiiers of the families .\hose memorials lined the walls, iiiid uie.v dh-coursou at so great a length (ijMi;i tiiis acuuaintance that -die felt mi! mi She coKl. Suddenly her eye eaught tii.'i words "Anno Domini" in tuiu.-uaily large letters in on-' of 1 i;.- inscripi ions. " Anna I'omni. 11.■ ■y !" s!;e --rieii. "13cgorra, an' is oiiid Ann:, haded here? Sure, an' ! knew her very well when she was eouk to the Lord Muy.cn' av Dublin."-