The "Goldfish"

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Arthur Cheney Train. The "Goldfish"

The "Goldfish"

Table of Contents

MYSELF

MY FRIENDS. MY CHILDREN. MY MIND. MY MORALS. MY FUTURE

CHAPTER I

MYSELF

ANNUAL BUDGET—MINIMUM—FOR FAMILY OF FIVE PERSONS

REVISED BUDGET

CHAPTER II

MY FRIENDS

CHAPTER III

MY CHILDREN

CHAPTER IV

MY MIND

CHAPTER V

MY MORALS

CHAPTER VI

MY FUTURE

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Arthur Cheney Train

Being the Confessions af a Successful Man

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A fortune in itself, you may say! Yet judged by the standards of expenditure among even the unostentatiously wealthy in New York it is moderate indeed. A friend of mine who has only recently married glanced over my schedule and said, "Why, it's ridiculous, old man! No one could live in New York on any such sum."

Any attempt to "keep house" in the old-fashioned meaning of the phrase would result in domestic disruption. No cook who was not allowed to do the ordering would stay with us. It is hopeless to try to save money in our domestic arrangements. I have endeavored to do so once or twice and repented of my rashness. One cannot live in the city without motors, and there is no object in living at all if one cannot keep up a scale of living that means comfort and lack of worry in one's household.

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