Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1917 — Spending Money Relative Matter Whether It’s Buying Peanuts or a Private Car [ARTICLE]

Spending Money Relative Matter Whether It’s Buying Peanuts or a Private Car

The spending of thousands without thought is probably not sq .different from spending dimes and coppers when you get used to it. The man who makes half a million over ntgfit |n war babies probably feels much the same when he blows SIO,OOO at a 'lick as you do after you get your envelope and take home a bag of peaquts to the kids. There is a kind of glow of satisfaction in being able to sjwnd a dime. As for the loss of the money—neither you nor the millionaire will know the difference by Monday morning. It is all a relative matter, says a writer. Just the name, it must be a sensation the first time you do as the man did who tyreezed Into the Pennsylvania railroad office in New York one day -tast - summer" and ordered a private car to take him to San Francisco. Of course, the Pennsy gets similar orders every once and so often and they are not in the habit of becoming excited about them. But this was a little out of the ordinary, because nd private cars were to be had, and when the prospective traveler was so advised he seemed to feel, somewhat as commuters do when the incoming fall Mine table drops the fast summer train. In other words, he appeared to be annoyed and he showed it by ordering the railroad folk to buy him a car. They did that little thing to oblige and it cost him some s2o,ooo—but it was worth it He didn’t have to worry once between New York and the coast about getting up and giving a perfectly good, comfortable seat to a lady.. '