The Secret Of Wealth

Dollars that are Got almost invariably have long wings and are as restless as swallows. They belong to the Touch-and-Go species. "Easy Money" is the term most often applied to their kindand it is well chosen, for dollars of this species take wing as easily as they alight.

Made dollars are almost as restless as those that are Got. That it is far more easy to make money than to keep it is a fact recognized by every financier.

Dollars that are Earned are perhaps a little shorter of wing and a trifle less quick of flight than those that are Made--how much so depends largely upon how hard it is to earn them.

But dollars that are kept are dollars that stay. They are like honey bees instead of swallows. They work for you while you are earning and putting other dollars aside. The instinct of usefulness and of security is in their blood.

Perhaps you say that all this is figurative and high-flown. Of course it is figurative--but it isn't high-flown. It is true to life to the very letter. Don't let any one fool you: There is a difference in dollarsa radical difference in their keeping qualities and consequently in their value. When you put in your supply of apples you demand those that will keep -- you ask if they are "good keepers."

Why not insist on the same quality in your dollars?

It is all up to you. You can have that kind if you will. They are minted from the same die as the other kinds; you alone can give them the true keeping quality. If you put them into a rainy-day account and let them stay there long enough to allow the "pickle" to "take hold"--to use the homely phrase of the housewife who puts down her family supply of meats--you subject your dollars to the only alchemy that is necessary to change their nature and take the restlessness out of them. Put your dollars in pickle in the bank barrel and you will have a supply of the most valuable kind of dollars ever minted.

"It is what we save rather than what we earn that insures a competence for the future."

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