MARGINS

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12199, 25 July 1925, Page 15

MARGINS

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L.G.S.)

, Have you ever bought a frock, only to discover, to your annoyance, that insufficient turnings have been allowed at the seams, so that a sudden movement tears the joins, or bursts the . seems? . , . Some lives are like that. No allowance has been made for emergencies, no margin for the. unexpected. And so they‘ have - resulted in a continuous relay !of- worries,and disappointments. ■ The-great art of existence is to live for something more than the immediate present, to have something “up yonr sleeve*’ in case the unforeseen should - ’happen. 'Men allow -more margin, as a rale, than women; they.' believe in e balance at the hank, end they feel that something. is wrong if there is not' one. ' - But the average woman of to-day believes in living, up to income.' “Why live as if yon bed only five hundred a year, when your ' actual income is six hundred? Why apend only ten pounds a week when yon make twelve?” she asks. Because, dear lady, there ere such things as doctors’ hills, and accidents, out-of-work spells, and runs of ill-luck. “Money is - made to spend,” she will doubtless re--1 ply. For she finds it difficult to differentiate between meanness and margins. Non-marginal women ere the despair of tradesmen, who have to allow long credit when ready money ought to be their motto. They are the despair' of their relatives, who have to come to the rescue again and again in a financial crisis. They are the despair of their medical advisers, whose potions ere unavailing against the mental Worries they bring on themselves. If you went to give your daughter a motto in one word, let it be ‘‘Margins.”