LITTLE THINGS BY Charles Robert Morrison

Be as diligent with other people's interests as you would they should be
with yours. Make deposits of stated sums weekly or monthly in savings
banks, until sufficient has accumulated to be used in more
remunerative investment. Be willing to consult with business men of
discreet and conservative reputation respecting the character of any
and all inducements offered concerning investments. They have not
lived in vain. They have seen optimistic expectations doomed to
disappointment. They may be "slow" and "Old Fogy," but they doubtless
have paid well for what they know. They have had experience that is
always wise to respect.
As a protection, if not an investment, take out a life insurance policy for
an amount you can readily pay for, in one of the many safe, sound, and
conservative companies, upon the endowment plan. The prejudice and
superstition that once existed against life
It was once argued that to insure one's life was a distrust of God--a
form of wager with a corporation that you would live out the allotted
period written in your insurance paper, or that you must die in order to
win. The guarantee that, by the payment of a certain sum per annum
for a certain term of years, you should have a certain sum of money
returned to you in case you were alive, or if you did not live, your heirs
or dependents should have it at your death--was but a straight, strict
business transaction, based upon definite calculations and long years of
observation--removed the element of chance from the proposition.
To the little things that make for wealth must not be omitted:
4. Liberality.
I do not mean the wealth of soul that comes from sympathizing in a
substantial way with the distressed, but, as a means to wealth,
systematic, proportionate giving, beginning with the tithe of one's
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