For instance, there is _the spendthrift_; surely he is entitled to a short stanza.

We all know him.
He goes on the theory that he has all the spending money in the world, and that long after he is dead those on whom he spent it will remember his generosity.

Vain hope!--Whatever memory of him remains will be of a different kind.

Those who have been bored by his gratuitous attentions will take up the threads of their existence where they left off when he drove them away from their usual haunts.

No longer will they have to dodge down alleys and run up strange stairways in an effort to avoid his overtures.
[Illustration: _Douglas Fairbanks in "The Good Bad-Man"_] When alive and in full operation he knew more about what was best for us than we could possibly think of knowing.