. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. , the Monday after Easter has been calledBlack Monday since Easter Monday in 1360,when cold, mist and darkness hung over thecamps of Edward III outside Paris.* PloughMonday in England, which began as a fete-day for medieval ploughmen, is the fiistMonday aftor Epiphany, and is oflicially cel-ebrated. Blue Monday is a colloquial epithetapplied to any day when ones spirits aredepressed. MONEY 2384 MONEY. o-^s Money unusedhas no value 0 N E
. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. , the Monday after Easter has been calledBlack Monday since Easter Monday in 1360,when cold, mist and darkness hung over thecamps of Edward III outside Paris.* PloughMonday in England, which began as a fete-day for medieval ploughmen, is the fiistMonday aftor Epiphany, and is oflicially cel-ebrated. Blue Monday is a colloquial epithetapplied to any day when ones spirits aredepressed. MONEY 2384 MONEY. o-^s Money unusedhas no value 0 N E Y , a measure ofvalue and the medium ofexchange, devised byman to facilitate com-merce. If you have evena very moderate amountof it you can secureeverytliing necessary toyour reasonable physicalrequirements. LackingQ]-^ IM^^- money, it serves as aTl laifed standard on which to base your value in thecommercial world. Youoffer your services to aman at so many grainsof gold per day; thenumber is determined by what that weight ingold will buy of the things you need. Ofcourse you set your price in dollars insteadof grains, but the real measure of value is thelatter. The dollar is merely a convenientform in which the real measure is View of Money. In Dickens Domhey& Son a pathetic little character is mother-less Paul, aged five. His father expectedthat he would grow up to perpetuate thename and fame of Dombey & Son, andthere were constant references to businessin the fathers talks to the boy, not much ofwhich could he comprehend. On
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