And if some can do this, all may do it under similar circumstances,--without depriving themselves of any genuine pleasure, or any real enjoyment.
How intensely selfish is it for a person in the receipt of good pay to spend everything upon himself,--or, if he has a family, to spend his whole earnings from week to week, and lay nothing by.

When we hear that a man, who has been in the receipt of a good salary, has died and left nothing behind him--that he has left his wife and family destitute--left them to chance--to live or perish anywhere,--we cannot but regard it as the most selfish thriftlessness.

And yet, comparatively little is thought of such cases.

Perhaps the hat goes round.

Subscriptions may produce something--perhaps nothing; and the ruined remnants of the unhappy family sink into poverty and destitution.
Yet the merest prudence would, to a great extent, have obviated this result.