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Poor Ways Of Saving

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Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
April
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
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To make personal charities small and infrequent in order to buy the more tickets for boxes at charity concerts and balls; to give one's family insufiicient and unsavory food in order to have the money for large and costly entertainments; to economize on warm underclothing for the sake of buying more showy ou ter garnients; to go on foot or in the horse cars when health and the weather require the use of a carriage, and then pay for several visits from a physician and for the attendant drug store bill; to expend $2,500 a year for the rent of a narrow "house vith hard wood fmishings" in a fashicnable neighborhood, and $100 annually for enough coal to barely keep its inmates from freezing, while from $1,200 to,$l,500 rent and $200 for f&el vcould lieep the household warm and comfortable in a vide, old fashioned house in a respectable vicinity - these ars but a few of the countless ways by which small savings may

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News