Young men often go through college on their "uppers," so to speak.

There is not a cent which they could honestly save as they went along without cheating themselves.

The point is that their situations in life force them to spend rather than to save money.
But in so doing the real saving was in the spending thereof.

_They enlarged their knowledge and decreased their bank accounts for the time being._ What man parts with in an emergency is no license, however, for him to fall back into profligacy.

Never should a man entirely lose the idea of putting something by.