Being a Good Fellow, Providing for Your Family

Being a Good Fellow

The man who has an income of $10,000 a year and spends every cent of it on his wife and family and friends is a good fellow and is blessed by everybody even after he has died and left not a cent to keep his children in school, to save his wife from going to work for their bread and butter or to pay his bills scattered around the town. He dies a royal good fellow, with the reputation of living only for his family.

The man who takes $1,000 a year off his wife's back in clothes and $1,000 a year off his own back and off his drinks and cigars and puts it into insurance for them against the time when he is dead and another $1,000 a year out of other things that make a man generous and lovable and puts that into a bond every twelvemonth for them and then dies and leaves them where his children can stay in school and his wife go on living in comfort — well, he is a curmudgeon with a mind not above sordid things, every time! — New York Press.


Economy.
Monahan-Poor Clancy!
Donegan—Why, man alive, 'tis great luck he's in!
"P'hwat; D'ye call it luck to have wan o' yer legs cut off?"
"Av coorse. It'll only cost him half as much now for shoes and pants." — Philadelphia Record.

—The Marion Daily Star, Marion, Ohio, February 27, 1902, page 7.