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.. t —■ — ■ ---' Tom Bondclow, ---e famous maker- SLAVES TO THEIR MONEY, I of £olf courses, 1ms enjoyed extraor-I dinavy opportunities for observingthe rich i.t their pleasures. And lie has returned from Europe with the conviction that the wealthy people ofpur own country do not know how to enjoy their money.“You Americans, he says, *'do not know how to live. You never know when you get enough money. An American who gets §150,000 thinks lie can get the earth. Instead of investing it and living the rest of his llfp comfortably on his income, he restlessly staves his life out seeking, Oliver Twist-like for more. Bill the Englishman knows. His- $150,000 invested in farms gives Min a good living without work, lie is a landed proprietor. He drives, hunts, fishes, plays golf and other sports and enjoys his days. His §160,000 does him some good, and he does not have to spend all 3iis surplus earnings over and abovB his $150,000 in paying doctors to cure him of dyspepsia, caused by quick lunches or no eating at all, and oes not, like tho American, become a bankrupt in the great things of all health and happiness.There is much truth lobe learned, it appears, even on Hie golf links.But Beodelow must bavo failed to observe the important truth that the average rich American finds keener enjoyment in making money than in fishing ar golfing.The comparison he draws la not fair. In England money-making is slow and painful drudgery. In this country the making of it in largo sums •is a friBcinating game beside which golfing is tame indeed. In England the man who has mnde §150,000 has practicaliy reached the limit of possibility. Here the man who has made $-150,000 Is just getting into the game; he 1b only beginning to show aptness as a pupil in the ait.Again, the average rich American keeps on making money because he does not know how to do anything else. All his thought and sentiment have been absorbed in his business, and the thought and sentiment are not necessarily of a lilgh order. The cultured tastes through which wealth may afford enjoyment have never been developed in him. Art and literature are aealed mysteries to him; and without these there is poor pleasure in travel and leisure is torture, ■
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Des Moines Daily News
Des Moines, Iowa, US
Mon, May 21, 1906
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