Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1916 — PROVIDING FUTURE NEEDS [ARTICLE]

PROVIDING FUTURE NEEDS

v "Every sane manufacturer and bus Iness man,” said Uncle Hiram to one of his older young nephews about to be married, “sets aßlde regularly sura? sufficient to cover deterioration In hit plant and the cost of but how many Individual persons do thisl not many. Most of us live right up to our incomes, never thinking of the requirements coming on us in the fu ture. “Young people generally when they get married take a few hundred dol lars more or less that they saved and furnish tbeir house or flat or wherever they’re going to live, and then they look around and think how nice It looks, and then they go ahead and spend all they earn, thinking that they’re all right if they don’t live be yond their income, and they don’t see any further than this till their things begin to wear out and they find they haven’t any money to buy new. "Marriage is a happy state, but you may be sure that it’s happiest when the business end of It Is conducted on business principles. Just as sopn as -sou get settled, my boy, start a sink Jng fund and keep it up rigidly. If you find you to deny yourselves something to save the amount, deny yourselves and save the money. You are absolutely sure to need It. You know how long It takes carpets and things to wear out, or If you don’t vour wife can tell you. Have the mon ey ready for whatever you may want v hen you need it. Don’t be compelled to go into debt for these things. Debt means distress for whatever household.