SAVING IN VAIN.
- - ~<&r+ • " Six years ago." said Smithson. I made up my mind that I was smoking too much. It didn't seeni to affect my health, but i thought it was a waste of money, and decided to give it np." " A sensible idea, ' remarked Brownlow. " So A thought at the time. I reckoned up as closely as I couid hov much 1 bad been spending each day on cigars and tobacco. 'J. hat sum i set aside each morniug. and started a banking account with it. I wanted to be able to sltow exactly* how , much T had saved by not smoking. " And how did it work V 1 At tho end of six vcars I had ft hundred and fifty pounds in the bank." , " Hood. Could you let me " ' '• And a few days later,interrupted Sniithson, " la.'t 'j uesdav. in fact—t-hfl f bank failed. You haveu't got a cigar about you, have yqu.fi
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20235, 20 April 1929, Page 5 (Supplement)
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