The Secret Of Wealth

The energetic and saving man or woman learns first of all the delusion and the emptiness of waste and show.

He sees it all around him, for America is learning that money is easier saved than earned.

American housewives who twenty years ago threw away enough food to feed a family of five, are reading and discovering that waste and show has cost them thousands of dollars they are discovering that waste and show do not exist in the families of the men who have made themselves rich.

It is the poor who are wasteful--and by the poor is meant any one who has not a sufficient fortune laid away to keep him and his in plenty all their days.

It is only people who have nothing who scorn the pennies; who despise small saving and economical ways of living.

In sharp contrast to such disastrous folly is the business ability of the rich which despises waste; which considers a penny or five minutes of electric light valuable in one's own pocket instead of handing it over into the pocket of somebody else.

The rich have learned that everything, from a cold boiled potato to a pin on the floor is worth saving and using again.

They will go a considerable distance to save a dime on the price of an article.

It is the rich man who can give the poor man valuable lessons in saving.

It is the rich man's wife who knows she can help dress herself and her daughters out of the materials which the poor man's wife would give away as worthless.

Nobody deliberately tosses a silver dollar into the alley as he passes--why then toss it there in the shape of wasted food and wasted clothing?

This is plain common sense--the kind of common sense which is the "good luck" of the rich man-- the kind of common sense which anybody can acquire if they sincerely want to possess wealth.

Stop individual waste and family waste!

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