Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1889 — The Secret of Success. [ARTICLE]

The Secret of Success.

Improvidence is the besetting American vice. No other civilized nation** in the world has so large r, proportion of men, young and old, who live up to and beyond their income. In no other country does the versatility of the people end the wide range of opportunity conduce to such frequent changes of vocation- as are seen hers. Our people are not lacking in “dig.” We are, as a race, great workers. But our restlessness and ambition to get on rapidly lead to frequent changes, and the saving habit is not now so characteristic as the spending Ik bit. For the mere amassing of wealth, Hamerton is right in saying that “the instinct of accumulation is worth all the rules in the world.”— New York World.

Early in the present century there were about 100 professed florists in the United States, and their combined greenhouses covered 50,000 square feet of glass. There are now over 10,000 florists, occupying 50,000,000 feet of glass, or about 1,000 acres of greenhouses.