Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1917 — Idleness Makes a Fortune. [ARTICLE]

Idleness Makes a Fortune.

“If you sit idly you will lose money every minute;” is a liberal paraphrase of a w-eli-known Japanese proverb and serves as a protest against idleness, but the Tokyo Herald cites the case at the great Buddha at. Nara, which, despite inaction, is reaping a fortune. During the year ending June 25 the Buddha received 351,000 visitors, whe paid admission fees aggregating $9350. The exaction of a fee to visit the big Buddha began in 1911, sinee which time $127,500 gate money has been received.