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Title: Plain Facts

Author: G. A. Bauman

Release Date: February 1, 2009 [EBook #27957]

Language: English

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PLAIN FACTS

PRACTICAL EDUCATION

FINANCIERING

COMMON SENSE

The several short articles herein contained were first written and
published twenty-five years ago as an expression of the writer's
convictions.

Having come to the conclusion that conditions, in many respects, have
not improved--in fact have become more alarming; and in consequence the
future outlook in these most strenuous and extravagant times more
uncertain, the writer was prompted to incorporate these ideals in a
booklet and dedicate the same to his younger friends.

G. A. BAUMAN,
Quincy, Illinois.

July, 1921.

Looked at From a Practical Standpoint

It is the young man and young woman of to-day, with a practical
education, who will adorn our best homes of the future.

It is the manager and the financier who is the practical one.

It is the young man with good habits who has a bank account, who shows
evidence of becoming a financier.

It is the young woman who trains herself with the duties of home-work,
that will become a manager.

It is the observing, the prudent, who will be the practical one.

The majority of our young friends of to-day are beginning at the wrong
end. Instead of beginning at the bottom and training themselves for
the future, thereby making accumulations by steadily and patiently
adhering to one principle, never deviating truthfully and honestly from
the one purpose, and in addition establishing a good character, they
begin, as it were, at the top, with ideas that are only acquired by
lack of proper training, and in course of time find themselves where
they should have begun years before.

What a young man neglects before his thirtieth birthday, he can never
redeem.

It is the early dollar saved that is the valuable one in later years,
and the earlier one begins, the sooner he will have a financial
standing.

The dollar judiciously inv