DEGREES OF WEALTH

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6442, 24 January 1924, Page 3

DEGREES OF WEALTH

What is the matter with most men is that they do not care for “things,” while most women can make up their whole life opt of buying more and more “things,” writes Mr W. L. George, the novelist, in “Harper’s Magazine.” In regard to man, we arrive at the conclusion that money has for him a limited value, and that his success, therefore, cannot consist entirely in money. My own suspicion is that while money is most essential to success, there is a point at which it ceases to be of any use at all. To the man who is making money, up to a certain point money has been a very good thing. First, it has given him a higher standard of living; then, by accumulating, it has promised him that this standard shall be kept up throughout his life; as his fortune grows, he sees security, not only for himself, but for his wife and children after he is dead. Then it gives him as much luxury as he can enjoy. Then .<. . . what? That is what is interesting. Past a certain point, the accumulation of money becomes nothing but a nervous habit. After being a privilege it turns into a responsibility. i