p. 10 | COLTON'S ADVICE

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 8, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 40.

COLTON'S ADVICE.

THE other day, as I was clinging to the strap of a Lexington Avenue car, says a writer in the Christian Advocate, two ladies sat near me, and as one opened her porte-monnaie to pay her fare a scrap of paper pasted to the leather was disclosed.

"Is that your shopping list?" asked the other; "it doesn't look like a long one."

"No," was the reply; "it is not the list, but it is what keeps the list from being a long one," and she read:—

"He who buys what he does not need, will soon need what he can not buy."

"What a capital guardian of your capital! You must let me copy that for my leaky purse. Who wrote it?"

"I don't know, but I wish I did, for he has saved many a dollar from lightly rolling from my hands since I put it here."

She referred to what Colton wrote:—

"We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore, never go abroad in search of your wants. If they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he who buys what he does not want, will soon want what he can not buy."