POINTS FOR REFCECTION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1779, 4 September 1884, Page 2

POINTS FOR REFCECTION.

Four causes account for most of the prevailing poverty and degradation; They are drunkenness, ignoranco, laziness, and pride. Only a small percentage of trouble comes from illness and misfortune, anil' ninetenths of our poverty and misery are the results of intemperance. Ignorance is also set down as the cause'of much misery, and the fact is self-evident, that laziness means idleness, and idleness means neglect of wife and children. Another potential cause of poverty deserves a place in the list, "and that is the widespread and ruinous sin of improvidence, With the.exception of intemperance the improvidence of the masses, of the people is the cause of more poverty and suffering than anything else.- Thepeopie who work tor wages and salaries do not as a rule lay anything by for old age and sickness. Too much is wasted, and too much is spent for show. There is too much recklessness of expenditure among people of small means, and the hand-to-mouth way of living is altogether too common. A man may be competent, industrious, honest, and temperate, but if he habitually lives up to the very last cent of his income, or a little' beyond it, he and those dependent upon h'imare absolutely certain to come to grief.

We would remind our readers that the Great Stook-takinf- Clearing Sale at L. J. Hooper and Co.'e is drawing to a close, and those who have not yet visited it should do ao without delay, Winter drapery was never ao cheap before, and BUOh a chance is not likely to occur again. Hundreds that have patronised the Great Sale testify to the enormous reductions aud great bargains offered at the Great Bon Marche" Clearing Sale,—'fADvi|. Don't ddj in the house.-"Bough on Bata" clears out rata, mice,beotles, roaches, bed-bugs, flies, ants, inseots. moles, jack: abbits, gophers. 7Jd-N. Z. Drag Company.