Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1891 — The Importance of Same Small Things. [ARTICLE]

The Importance of Same Small Things.

Twenty-two million, cr one-,third'Of our country’s population, .ar.e .enumerated as its workers. The old, chib dren, many* wouftn and .the infirm and people of leisure make .up about (two-thirds of the people. These workers working ten hours si day would have 220,000,000 hours of work .daily. Should each one lose six minutes a day in idleness and careless-* ness it would amount to 2,200,000 hours ,or 220,000 days of work. If this work is worth to the world one dollar a day, such a loss would be a quarter of a million dollars a day. These little leaks are well worth considering, for such small margins are sometimes the weight in the balance which insures the success or failure of an enterprise! The alacrity with which a thousand men will get into the streets after the dinner whistle blows has often been noticed; it is so remarkable in some cases that no acrobat even could prepare himself, after the whistle blows, for his sudden appearance from his machine to the open air. The pace from the shop to the dinner table is quite unlike that from the dinner table back to the shop. Another instance of how McKinley duties have put up prices and increased the cost of living is furnished us by a St Louis gentleman who had his clothing made In New York Last February a year ago he paid fifty-five dollars for a suit of clothes made to order by a well known New York clothing house. A precisely similar suit of clothes from the same goods ordered this week cost sixty-four dollars, an increase of over 14 per cent. —St. Louis Republic. A social life which worships money and pursues social distinction as its aim Is, In spirit and fact, an aristocracy.— J. a Holland